K. L. Homme

Standing in the Ancient Shadow

Dec 2, 2025

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A Chapter 1 Anthology of Quotes & Reflections At the Trailhead Chapter 1 traces the early contours of the mountains, myths, children, histories, and fractures that shape the trail ahead. These quotes represent the chapter’s most resonant lines under four themes: nature’s deep logic, the wonder and mystery that wake us in the night, the rise of authoritarian…

The No Shortcuts to Now Audio Guide

Nov 30, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Podcast, Uncategorized

A Complete Listening Map for the Trail Planning a holiday drive? Cooking, cleaning, or hiding from relatives? Here’s the full No Shortcuts to Now Audio Guide — all three chapters, in order, with easy links. If you’ve been curious about catching up, this is the perfect place to start. All the links you’ll find below. 🌋 Chapter…

Waypoint 3.4—From the Rhetoric of Valley Forge to the Forge of Fallacies

Nov 30, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 3.4

As the ever-charming man campaigned for office, he looked into the teleprompter, smiled his avuncular smile, and read two polished phrases set in deliberate, nostalgic parallel: “old-time religion” and “old-time Constitution.” In doing so, Reagan cast a kind of charm—a syntactic spell that reinforced a pernicious myth: that the Constitution and the Bible belong to…

Waypoint 3.3: Faith, Fury, and the Ditto-Headless Horsemen of the Post-Truth Apocalypse

Nov 16, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Waypoints, Chapter 3.3

How the Gospel of Grievance Gave Rise to a Post-Truth Faith “The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.” — Friedrich Nietzsche “Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.” — Charles Darwin In February 2020, during the State of…

Field Note 3.2 — All The King’s Candy

Nov 2, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Uncategorized, Waypoints

Every kingdom starts with a taste for something sweet. “Thus do men swallow the honeyed poison of the mouth.” — Lucretius, On The Nature of Things, Book IV “So long as man remains free, he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.” — Ivan Karamazov, The Brothers Karamazov Ivan The Parable…

Waypoint 3.2 — The Loudest Belch: Reagan’s Revolution & The Birth of Outrage Media

Oct 4, 2025

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K. L. Homme

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from Chapter 3, The Blasted Heath “Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.” — Anonymous, often misattributed to Plato “I don’t need scientific proof — because the people promoting global warming are frauds.” — Rush Limbaugh In 1778, far from home, shivering and doubtful of their…

Field Note 3.1 (b): The Phantom Pronoun

Sep 20, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Language and Manipulation, On Political Theatre

The Fog of ‘They’: Macbeth, Propaganda, and the Aftermath of Charlie Kirk’s Murder “And be these juggling fiends no more believed, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear, And break it to our hope.” —Macbeth, V.iii In the last waypoint, The Iron Key, we reflected on time,…

Field Note 3.1 (a): The Blasted Stage —Kierkegaard’s Clown, Newsom’s Warning, and Trump’s Burning Theatre

Sep 1, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Political Theatre

We cannot lean on prophecy or conspiracy. We have only history and inference when we measure the depth of Trump’s “vaulting ambition” — and the lengths he’ll go to cheat death, beat the law, rig the system, and make himself immortal. Kierkegaard saw it clearly: “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be…

Waypoint 3.1: The Iron Key — Pompeii, Volcanic Fire, and The Locks of Time

Aug 30, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Waypoints

In May of 1915, Lassen’s Peak exploded and sent a mushroom cloud 30,000 feet into the sky — visible 150 miles to the west from Eureka, on California’s golden coast, and 190 miles to the south from Sacramento. Pacific winds carried ash 280 miles east to Elko, where, in the evening light, it seemed to…

Field Note 3¾ — The Rainbow Connection: Don’t Believe Everything You Think

Aug 16, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Field Notes, On Language and Manipulation, Uncategorized

We’re steeped in phrases, slogans, narratives, and interpretations — authored by others, many of whom have anything but our best interests at heart, and are all too ready to turn us into croaking frogs, gig us clean, and fry up our meaty legs.

Author: K. L. Homme