The Self-Destruction of Idiocy

Idiots are not an anomaly within civilization. They are one of its products. Every successful society eventually creates enough comfort to shield people from consequences, and once consequences disappear, incompetence begins to breed unchecked. The danger is not that idiots exist. The danger is that prosperity allows them to rise, multiply, and institutionalize themselves before reality finally returns.

Florence from Memory

Close-up of a craftsman’s hands shaping wood with a drawknife, surrounded by fresh shavings.

Florence lingers like a half-remembered dream - stone and shadow, beauty and burden. It’s not the city that changed, but the eyes that see it. Memory edits, distills, betrays. What was once sacred becomes spectral. In tracing old steps, we find not the past, but the echo of who we were when we first arrived.