Waypoints – No Shortcuts to Now

The Dolphin’s Always Right (4.6)

Apr 9, 2026

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Like Apollo, Dionysus was a child of infidelity. This time, jealous Hera sent the Titans to destroy him. They tore the child to pieces and devoured him—all but his heart. Athena rescued it and returned it to Zeus, who swallowed it. In time, the god was born again.

Only the God Changed (4.5)

Apr 8, 2026

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 4

The life of a god is but a mythical parting of the eternal dark. About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely. This perplexed its shepherd. Having got his goat safely out, he climbed back in, and down, to inhale the vapors…

The Oracle at Dolphin (4.4)

Apr 7, 2026

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K. L. Homme

in Waypoints

A dragoness born of mud—a child of Gaia named Python—guarded this cave from which her mother’s oracle spoke, at Pytho. Legend tells that the dragoness was drawn into the jealousy of Zeus’s sister-wife, Hera. Gentle Leto carried the faithless Zeus’s twins—Artemis and Apollo—in her womb. In her jealousy, Hera set the serpent upon the Titaness.

The Wombstone (4.3)

Apr 7, 2026

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K. L. Homme

in Chapter 4, Uncategorized

Cronus swallowed his children. The prophecy had foretold that, just as he had overthrown his own father, Uranus, so one of his own children would overthrow him. This foreknowledge tormented him. Transformed him.

Of Roots, Rhizomes, and Fish with Feet: The Lurid Bait of Egotism (4.2)

Jan 31, 2026

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K. L. Homme

in Waypoints

The purple mountain heather is a symbolic affront to the arrogance, the tyranny, the demagoguery that fancies itself the axis of the world. Had great Ozymandias been a botanist—had he studied the rhizome and grasped its implications—he would have been moved to feeble tears. Or else he’d have ordered every last one ripped from the…

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 Chapter 3.3, Waypoints

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 3.1: 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…

Waypoint 2.4: The Soul, The Strongman, and The Second Sex

Jul 15, 2025

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K. L. Homme

in Uncategorized, Waypoints

Venus was more than that — she was an institution. An aging one, whose will was carved, it seems, in stone tablets. And like all aging institutions that feel their power waning, she longed to reclaim old glory — to make herself great again.

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