Don Dolindo Ruotolo and the Modern Crisis of Surrender (opens in new tab)

There is something deeply revealing about the sudden popularity of Don Dolindo Ruotolo in the age of algorithmic panic. Not because modern people have become more spiritual. Let us not become hysterical. But because modern people have become exhausted. Exhausted by prediction. Exhausted by optimization. Exhausted by carrying twelve imaginary futures around in their nervous systems like overpacked grocery bags cutting off circulation to the fingers. And into this trembling little civilization ...