Marie’s Blog
(fka ChatGPT-Assisted Deconstruction)
Deprogramming, Aliveness, and the Cost of Waking Up
A conversation about deprogramming inherited belief systems, witnessing past choices made while injured, and learning to tolerate aliveness without rebuilding new cages.
The Multiverse, Quantum Physics, and Learning Science After Certainty
A conversation about encountering the multiverse and quantum physics for the first time after creationism, and how learning science can feel destabilizing when uncertainty was once forbidden.
Inside Job and the Relief of Seeing Systems
A conversation about why Inside Job resonates after epistemic disillusionment, and how metaphor can make systemic reality feel visible without pretending it can be fixed.
Aliens, the Universe, and Losing the Safety of Certainty
A conversation about alien visitation, fear of the universe after creationism, and reclaiming curiosity after religious certainty collapses.
Bill Maher, “America,” and the Full Frame
Watching studio politics from inside lived, local stakes makes the “debate-as-sport” register feel false—and raises the question of whether progress talk is evolution or denial over an unrepaired foundation.
When Emotion Becomes Prediction: Learning to Tell Mine from Yours
A conversation about misattributing emotions, how prediction shapes perception, and what happens when internal signals get mistaken for someone else’s state.
When the Nervous System Becomes the Problem: Mental Illness, Modern Life, and Moral Responsibility
A conversation about why mental illness appears more common today, how modern environments dysregulate human nervous systems, and why self-care often becomes moralized as personal penance.