Cogitating Ceviché's Week in Review (25-20)
May 19, 2025–May 24, 2025
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🗞️ Cogitating Ceviche’s Week in Review
Editor’s Note
This week, our writers invite you to wrestle with paradoxes—faith and hospitality, resurrection and recreation, satire and sincerity, data and autonomy. Whether gazing at the stars or reprogramming prophecy, this collection draws a map across history, ethics, and narrative form.
Articles of the Week
🕊️ Reclaiming Hospitality: A Forgotten Christian Weapon in a Fractured World
May 19, 2025
By: Calista F. Freiheit
Calista argues for reviving hospitality not as sentiment, but strategy—a Christian ethos for healing political and personal rifts. She frames it as a civic virtue with eternal implications.
🔮 The Oracle of Delphi Reprogrammed: Ancient Prophecy in the Age of Predictive AI
May 20, 2025
By: Conrad T. Hannon
Hannon collides antiquity with algorithms in this speculative satire, casting today’s predictive models as the high priests of our data-drunk society. It’s wit with a historical footnote and a tech-age twist.
🐺 Of Dire Wolves and Designer Pets: From Pleistocene Resurrection to the Pocket Pachyderm
May 21, 2025
By: Conrad T. Hannon
From de-extincted predators to genetically engineered cuteness, this piece tracks our obsession with rewriting biology—and history—for profit and novelty. It's funny, chilling, and sharp.
🌙 When The Moon Fell
May 21, 2025
By: Gio Marron
Gio Marron returns with a haunting, allegorical tale. Part myth, part reflection on loss and cosmic entropy, this story uses celestial collapse as metaphor for emotional implosion.
🧠 Passive Voice, Active Results: A Guide to the Gentle Art of Suggesting Catastrophe
May 22, 2025
By: Conrad T. Hannon
How do institutions dodge blame so elegantly? Hannon peels back the passive constructions that shroud calamity in a cloak of civility. Essential reading for anyone who’s read a corporate apology.
🎩 Edward Lear (1812–1888): The Satirist of Nonsense, Melancholy, and Imagination
May 23, 2025
By: Conrad T. Hannon
In this biographical portrait, Hannon excavates the melancholy behind Lear’s nonsense verse, offering a modern homage to whimsy laced with pain—and its quiet radicalism.
🩺 Estonia's Digital Health Revolution: A Blueprint for Patient-Owned, Platform-Agnostic Medical Records
May 24, 2025
By: Conrad T. Hannon
Tech and trust rarely go together. But Hannon shows how Estonia manages both, in a profile of a health system built on data sovereignty, transparency, and function over flash.
🌊 Three Miles Out
May 24, 2025
By: Gio Marron
A slow-burn thriller set just off the legal edge of the known world. Marron explores the gray zones—legal, moral, emotional—through prose that feels like the sea: deep, quiet, and threatening.
📜 Quote of the Week
“The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes... but right through every human heart.”
—Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
🧠 Thought-Provoking Questions for the Week
Reclaiming Hospitality
How might Christian hospitality be weaponized constructively in today's cultural conflicts?
Can radical kindness actually change civic discourse?
The Oracle of Delphi Reprogrammed
Are we any wiser than the ancients when we outsource prophecy to machines?
How does data reframe notions of fate?
Of Dire Wolves and Designer Pets
What does bio-nostalgia say about our comfort with extinction?
Can science fiction become science policy?
When The Moon Fell
What do we lose when we metaphorically “lose the moon”?
Is cosmic symbolism the last sacred language in a secular age?
Passive Voice, Active Results
How does grammar obscure culpability?
What’s the moral risk in passive phrasing?
Edward Lear
How do nonsense and satire destabilize norms?
What role does melancholy play in imagination?
Estonia’s Digital Health Revolution
What would it mean for Americans to own their health data?
Could Estonia’s model work at scale elsewhere?
Three Miles Out
Where do laws lose their bite—and what fills that vacuum?
Can distance from shore also mean distance from conscience?
📚 Additional Resources
✍ Final Reflections
From ancient whispers reinterpreted by code to oceanic voids where rules disappear, the week’s pieces dare to ask: who gets to shape the future—those with memories or those with machines? Across stories of faith, satire, ethics, and estrangement, we are reminded that narrative is the oldest and newest form of resistance.
📣 Authors’ Calls to Action
Calista F. Freiheit: Reclaim a lost virtue. Invite someone over.
Conrad T. Hannon: When the passive voice appears—challenge it.
Gio Marron: Let one strange image guide your next piece of writing.
All authors: And they all encourage you to share and subscribe.
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Thank you for your time today. Until next time, stay gruntled, curious, and God Bless.
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