@klhomme
Writer exploring myth, memory, and resistance. No Shortcuts to Now is my serialized book — a journey from a volcanic trailhead into the fault lines of American life. Follow the trail: https://noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/begin-here-no-shortcuts-to-now
A friend asked the Oracle of Delphi:
“Is anyone wiser than Socrates?”
The oracle answered:
“No one.”
Socrates spent the rest of his life trying to prove the oracle wrong.
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#Socrates #philosophy #Delphi #Nietzsche
“Many failed to read the warning inscribed at the temple’s entrance: Know Thyself.”
New Waypoint from No Shortcuts to Now
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Promotional graphic for No Shortcuts to Now. The top half has a dark green background with white serif text reading “Waypoint 4.6: The Dolphin’s Always Right,” with the subtitle “Know Thy Fault,” the website “noshortcutstonow.substack.com,” and the author name “K. L. Homme.” The bottom half shows the ancient stone theater of Delphi in Greece set among green mountains beneath a bright blue sky, with the sun shining overhead.
A king once asked the Oracle of Delphi whether he should go to war.
The oracle replied:
If you wage war, a great empire will fall.
She was right.
It was his.
New Waypoint from No Shortcuts to Now:
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#Delphi #philosophy #history #Nietzsche #Socrates
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“Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.”
—Nietzsche
Ancient kings went to Delphi looking for certainty.
Socrates discovered something stranger.
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#Philosophy #Socrates #Nietzsche #GreekMythology #History #CriticalThinking
What did the Oracle of Delphi, Socrates, and Karl Popper all discover about truth?
That certainty is dangerous.
New Waypoint tomorrow morning:
No Shortcuts to Now
A king once asked the Oracle of Delphi if he should go to war.
The oracle answered:
If you wage war, a great empire will fall.
She was right.
It was his.
Tuesday: a new Waypoint from No Shortcuts to Now.
Promotional graphic for “Field Note 3.2 — All The King’s Candy.” The top half shows the title and subtitle: “Every kingdom starts with a taste for something sweet.” The lower half is a cartoon satire of a news broadcast: a blond woman wearing a gold cross necklace sits between two boys at a news desk. One boy blows a bubblegum bubble while holding candy, and a fake network logo reads “BS News.” A banner reads “Breaking: Our Boy Tied To.” The image satirizes media spectacle and the seductive sweetness of propaganda.
“Some habits are stickier.
Like gum spat out on a summer sidewalk, they just change shape—and wait there… for the next sneaker to wander by.”
Today that gum comes wrapped as certainty.
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#propaganda #media #authoritarianism #ChristianNationalism
Promotional graphic for Waypoint 1.1 — Vulcan’s Evangelist from No Shortcuts to Now. The top half shows the title in white serif text on a dark blue background with the subtitle “From Chapter 1: Standing in the Ancient Shadow,” the website noshortcutstonow.substack.com, and the author name K.L. Homme. The lower half shows a large snow-streaked volcanic mountain rising above a forested landscape, its summit partly hidden by thick white clouds drifting across the peak.
“The people of Pompeii knew no disaster like that which buried Sesame Street that night.”
That’s how my son’s obsession with volcanoes began.
🌋 Waypoint 1.1 — Vulcan’s Evangelist
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#Volcanoes #Parenthood #Storytelling
Antique parchment-style map of the Delphi region bordered with a Greek key pattern and illustrated serpents. Mount Parnassus rises on the right above Kastalia Spring. Two dashed fault lines—the Delphi Fault and the Kerna Fault—intersect at a small temple icon labeled “Oracle,” marking the location of Delphi.
The Oracle of Delphi stood where two fault lines meet.
Pilgrims believed the earth itself spoke there.
Geologists later discovered vapors rising from the fractures beneath the temple.
🎧 Waypoint 4.5 — Only The God Changed
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#Delphi #MythAndScience
Antique parchment-style map of the Delphi region bordered with a Greek key pattern and illustrated serpents. Mount Parnassus rises on the right above Kastalia Spring. Two dashed fault lines—the Delphi Fault and the Kerna Fault—intersect at a small temple icon labeled “Oracle,” marking the location of Delphi.
The Oracle of Delphi stood where two fault lines meet.
Pilgrims believed the earth itself spoke there.
Geologists later discovered vapors rising from the fractures beneath the temple.
🎧 Waypoint 4.5 — Only The God Changed
noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-4...
#Delphi #MythAndScience
Promotional graphic for the audio of Waypoint 4.5—Only the God Changed on NoShortcutsToNow.Substack.com. The top half features the title in white serif text on a dark background. The lower half shows a black-and-white engraving of the Oracle of Delphi seated above a smoking fissure, arms raised in trance, surrounded by robed attendants inside a temple.
“About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely.”
Soon they had a priestess, an oracle, and knowledge.
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#MythAndPower #Delphi #Nietzsche #OnTheReturnOfTheRepressed
Promotional graphic for the audio of Waypoint 4.5—Only the God Changed on NoShortcutsToNow.Substack.com. The top half features the title in white serif text on a dark background. The lower half shows a black-and-white engraving of the Oracle of Delphi seated above a smoking fissure, arms raised in trance, surrounded by robed attendants inside a temple.
“About fourteen centuries before Christ’s eastern star pierced Pagan skies, a goat fell into a chasm, and began to bleat strangely.”
Soon they had a priestess, an oracle, and knowledge.
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#MythAndPower #Delphi #Nietzsche #OnTheReturnOfTheRepressed
If you’ve read Waypoint 4.5, descend further.
“Speech is a kind of resurrection.”
Before Apollo traded places with Dionysus, there were volcano gods, butterflies, and calendars reset in flame.
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#GreekMythology #AztecHistory #CulturalMemory
Illustrated vintage-style map of Mount Parnassus and Delphi. The map shows the Delphi Fault running horizontally and the Kerna Fault intersecting it near the Oracle at Delphi. A small temple icon marks the oracle’s location near Kastalia Spring at the base of the mountain. Decorative elements include serpents in the corners and a compass rose, with labels identifying Mount Parnassus, Delphi, and the surrounding fault lines.
Fault lines run beneath Delphi.
Geologists found ethylene in the bedrock.
It seems the earth was speaking after all.
🏛️ Only the God Changed
Delphi, tectonics, myth, and the persistence of authority.
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#Delphi #Philosophy #History
When an experience overwhelms us, do we discover truth—or invent it?
“Bewildered, they needed to understand the experience.
So they invented knowledge.”
🏛️ Only the God Changed
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#Philosophy #Delphi #GreekMythology #Epistemology #MythAndPower
When an experience overwhelms us, do we discover truth—or invent it?
“Bewildered, they needed to understand the experience.
So they invented knowledge.”
🏛️ Only the God Changed
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#Philosophy #Delphi #GreekMythology #Epistemology #MythAndPower
As the earth iced over, Dionysus entered the temple.
Then the faithful honored the irrational heart.
🏛️ Waypoint 4.5
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#Delphi #MythAndPower #Philosophy #GreekMythology
It seems the earth was speaking after all.
Promotional image for Waypoint 4.5—Only the God Changed. Title and subtitle appear above a 19th-century engraving of the Pythia at Delphi seated in trance, surrounded by robed attendants and ritual vessels inside a temple.
New religions borrow the robes of the old.
The priestess remained;
only the god changed.
🏛️ Waypoint 4.5 — Only the God Changed
Delphi, fault lines, and the birth of authority.
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#Delphi #GreekMythology #MythAndPower #Philosophy #Authority
Promotional image for Waypoint 4.5—Only the God Changed. Title and subtitle appear above a 19th-century engraving of the Pythia at Delphi seated in trance, surrounded by robed attendants and ritual vessels inside a temple.
New religions borrow the robes of the old.
The priestess remained;
only the god changed.
🏛️ Waypoint 4.5 — Only the God Changed
Delphi, fault lines, and the birth of authority.
noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-4...
#Delphi #GreekMythology #MythAndPower #Philosophy #Authority
“The question is not who should rule, but how we can so organize political institutions that bad rulers can be prevented from doing too much harm.”
— Karl Popper
Detail from Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia by Eugène Delacroix: A muscular, bare-backed man draped in red stands before an altar holding a sacrificial lamb, blood dripping from its body. Smoke rises from a brazier wrapped with a coiled serpent. Behind the altar, the Pythia sits elevated on a pedestal, partially turned away, as if receiving divine inspiration. The scene is rendered in warm, shadowed tones, emphasizing ritual, sacrifice, and sacred authority.
What must be buried for order to stand?
At Delphi, a dragon died.
But her breath still spoke.
🎧 Waypoint 4.4 — The Oracle at Dolphin
A retelling of Apollo and Python — and how power sustains itself over what it cannot destroy.
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#MythAndPower #Delphi
Detail from Lycurgus Consulting the Pythia by Eugène Delacroix: A muscular, bare-backed man draped in red stands before an altar holding a sacrificial lamb, blood dripping from its body. Smoke rises from a brazier wrapped with a coiled serpent. Behind the altar, the Pythia sits elevated on a pedestal, partially turned away, as if receiving divine inspiration. The scene is rendered in warm, shadowed tones, emphasizing ritual, sacrifice, and sacred authority.
What must be buried for order to stand?
At Delphi, a dragon died.
But her breath still spoke.
🎧 Waypoint 4.4 — The Oracle at Dolphin
A retelling of Apollo and Python — and how power sustains itself over what it cannot destroy.
noshortcutstonow.substack.com/p/waypoint-4...
#MythAndPower #Delphi
Narcissistic Supply...baked in!
Perfect!
OMG—and the song!
Yuck!
True—and that fact means much.
To be clear: get them canceled.
Turn more of those dots green...
Exactly.
It's the best power we've got.