In this essay and videos, I am demonstrating what I call reflection-ability and vocal ability, and explaining the connection between the two.

Across 2024 and 2025, while reading and critiquing and writing about the work of Rene Girard and Henri Bergson, I developed a theory called reflection theory that sits beneath mimetic theory.

The key split occurred when I realized in mid-2025:

Reflection precedes Imitation
I thought at first that reflection theory could be part of mimetic theory, then I realized that it was likely parallel (explaining the same phenomena but with some slight differences), and then I realized that reflection theory entirely supplants mimetic theory and better explains many of Girard’s principles while enabling a few important additional moves in situations of escalating violence that can (and already have) helped to stabilize our present world.

I have not...

I mentioned Alastair Reynolds in my previous post. There’s another short story of his that was turned into a short film on Netflix called Zima Blue. I will not add any spoilers but it is a pretty remarkable little film and story.

As I think about large-scale engineering and the Meso-Space-Mountain, I’ve been re-watching a few films that show large engineering structures. Elysium is a film that certainly shows massive engineering scale but also shows the problems of ignoring human rights and points towards finding paths that enable all of our communities to thrive and not just a small elite.

I like AOC. I think she is smart, principled, and mostly practices what she says from everything I have seen. I could see myself changing that from a mostly to an entirely — but it is nearly impossible to do that without meeting a person or being around someone directly.

Still, my intuitive sense is that I trust her, which is a lot for me to say given the events of the last couple years.

Representative AOC is very nuanced and precise in all the positions that I’ve heard her take. I started listening to her more intently recently, after beginning a search last year to find young political leaders to support. I almost always find myself, after listening to her recent talks over the last year, realizing “OK, actually what I’m hearing Alexandria say is that the deeper problem is this other thing” and finding that the problems she is identifying are important and the solutions she is...

A few weeks ago I wrote about delaying some work travel to China and Israel until after I completed and published a few essays. I am delaying that travel again for a few reasons.

I have published a few of the planned essays, and I also began transferring writings to a new blog platform. I do want to finish a few more of these before traveling. Also, during the last few weeks I made a few more breakthroughs in understanding my current situation. I’ve found more evidence that my divorce situation was and still is political, and I found evidence that may indicate my prior marriage itself was more politically calculated than I understood.

I’ve also had a really tough few days emotionally while not being able to see my son Homer for his birthday, despite multiple attempts to try to see him or at least get him a birthday gift. After getting over the emotional shock of that, I have been...

A few months ago I had a vision of a twisting structure of four widebase towers reaching up into space in a mountain shape, capped by a greenery-filled geodesic dome. This post will serve as a placeholder for early notes, problem descriptions, and sketches about this structure. I call this structure a Meso-Space-Mountain.

I should be explicit that this post is firmly intended to be a technical and visionary description, and that there are no (or very limited, and explicitly called out if so) layered meanings to anything I am writing in this essay.

I believe that a megastructure of the type I am describing can enable all people on Earth to reach a multi-planetary civilization both faster and with fewer dangers of war breaking out. I believe collaboratively working on these structures can also generate trillions of dollars of economic flow across all segments of the Earth (and soon...

I, Jeremy Welch, am now seeing clearly that in many ways I have been fighting against myself for a few decades, and more intensely in the last two years.

The publication of this essay will be a little bit different than some of my other recent essays. I am publishing the notes of this essay in a more raw format, and then editing along the way. I also expect to add more content as I learn more. I may change some of my conclusions based on new evidence, but as of today (September 21st 2026) the evidence presented and current conclusions have built into a solid foundation over the course of months and months of research. I still have plans to shift my writings to another blogging platform, so I may adapt the format of this essay when I finally do finish that. I am publishing this now despite the anticipated changes because the claims in this essay, if true, are so enormous that even a...

I am visiting NYC today, after a week researching ancient cultures and genetics in Japan.

Last night while walking back to my hotel from seeing an incredible performance by Showing Teeth, I thought about the need to visit China soon for a few reasons, one of which is to continue to de-escalate tensions between the US and China related to joint (or at least mutually respectful and peaceful) longterm work on colonization of space. I also thought about my stops for a trip to visit Israel for the first time, which has been long overdue.

But this morning, in thinking about these trips and other travel that it would be good to make happen before the end of the year (another research trip to Japan, and visits to, in no particular order, LA, SF, Rome, London, NYC, and DC), I am realizing that publishing a few writings should happen before these trips.

These include an essay on a longterm...

Not Weapon, but Enemy: What we are fighting is not this or that enemy who could be attacked or liquidated by atomic means, but the atomic situation as such. Since this enemy is the enemy of all people, those who, up to now, had considered each other to be enemies, have now to become allies against the common menace.–Peace actions from which we exclude those with whom we wish to live in peace amount to hypocrisy, self-righteousness and a waste of time.
from Theses for the Atomic Age by Günther Anders

I do not believe Xi Jinping and the Chinese people are evil, although I do see many mistakes they have made in their development as a modern nation (but we all make mistakes).

I believe Xi Jinping and the leadership of China, at least in the last few years, have acted more times than not to stabilize world order, prevent wars, increase commerce, invent new technologies and solve major...

Peter Thiel is either dead, imprisoned, a liar, or intellectually inept.

From the last page of The Straussian Moment, which I consider to be Peter Thiel’s magnum opus work of political philosophy:

“But also there cannot be a decision to avoid all decisions and to retreat into studying the Bible in anticipation of the Second Coming, for then one will have ceased to be a statesman or stateswoman.”

What a strange sentence. What does he mean?

The opening paragraph of this final segment of the essay addresses the fact that the modern age, even if it is in twilight, still exists. At the beginning of the essay, he says that the 9/11 terrorist attacks called into question the modern age, with its “emphasis on deterrent armies, rational nation-states, public debates and international diplomacy.” Further, in the middle of the essay he highlights that the inconsistencies apparent from...