Skinner Layne has lived a life of unscripted adventure. Always committed to an independent, entrepreneurial path of creativity and personal challenge.
Our backlit screens are distraction engines. They trick us about what time of day it is, and they trick us into wanting things we don’t want and into not wanting things we actually need. We are confused, and by that confusion, we further confuse ourselves and each other.
The more I have embraced uncertainty, the more unexpected good has come to me — this is Grace, or Serendipity. The acceptance of uncertain futures likewise eases the pain of accepting the certainties circumscribing action in the present, and the immutability of the past.
The problem is that there is a battle between the conscious and unconscious elements of our psyches, and the unconscious always has the edge.
The purpose of an ethical system ought to be to foster, sustain, and affirm life. It is the only conceivable principle that benefits every individual called to live within that system.
The late psychiatrist and writer M. Scott Peck defined evil as "that which seeks to destroy life or liveliness." By this definition, we most certainly live in an age of evil.
Our scripts are killing us.
