Welcome — where resistance meets resonance.
This is a space for those of us who don’t fully believe, but can’t fully turn away either. Who question everything—God, healing, knowledge, self—but keep searching anyway.
Almighty Ohm is for the in-betweeners. The resistors. The thinkers who feel, and the feelers who think. This isn’t about arriving. It’s about tuning in—through the noise, through the doubt, to that quiet hum underneath it all.
The Death of Myth & The Crisis of Identity: Why Modern Images Leave Us Hungry
Why We’re Starving for Myth: Identity, Meaning, and the Images That Fail Us
In this episode, we dive into why our age is drowning in identity — yet starving for myth.
Drawing on Charlie Chaplin’s warning that images alone are not enough, Werner Herzog’s desperate search for adequate images, and Nietzsche’s insight that we ourselves are the creators of meaning, we explore why modern life feels so hollow.
We’ll look at how myth was once a polymodal, lived experience that trained us to see the world as sacred and ourselves as part of something vast. And why, without it, we reduce identity to something shallow, marketable, and brittle.
Ultimately, this is a call to rediscover the mythic dimension of life — to live many lives within this one, to be seized by stories that shape us, and to dare to become more than mere spectators of our own existence.
#Myth #Identity #Meaning #Nietzsche #WernerHerzog #Chaplin #Philosophy #Culture #ModernLife #Storytelling #AestheticTruth #Psychology #SelfDiscovery #MythMaking
27 Jun 2025
The Educated Imagination and the Boy Who Read Nietzsche in North Bay
How dyslexia, bilingualism, and myth created a Canadian identity no one expected.
An imagined appendix to Northrop Frye’s The Educated Imagination, based on a true story from Northern Ontario — where a bilingual, dyslexic teen survived the failures of Canada’s education system by reading Nietzsche in the bush. A reflection on imagination, identity, and survival in the margins.
Northrop Frye
The Educated Imagination
Canadian Identity
Dyslexia and Education
French Immersion
Nietzsche
Philosophy of Education
Canadian Literature
Trauma-Informed Learning
Oral Tradition
Bilingual Education
Marginalized Voices
Myth and Metaphor
Literary Survival
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