Make it So

Inflection Points

I’m completely aware that New Year’s is an artificial inflection point in our lives. Of course it is. As a day in which the sun comes up and the sun sets, in which the normal number of things happen, it is a day like any other.

But then when you think about it, so much about human life and consciousness is artificial. By which I mean it is something learned and sought, something created and held onto; it is not a “natural” occurrence. The natural occurrences are our eating, ou...