A new year arrives carrying everything you didn’t resolve, everything you avoided, everything you quietly survived.
This short video is an opening. A welcome. A threshold moment.
In the coming months, The Observing I begins a new season titled Fire and Ice, an exploration of Russian and Eastern European philosophy, literature, and psychology. These are ideas born in extremes. Lives shaped by scarcity, authority, faith, guilt, exile, and endurance. This isn’t philosophy designed to make you feel better about yourself. It’s philosophy that asks what’s left of a person when comfort disappears.
This season will move through themes of suffering, responsibility, freedom, identity, power, belief, and the systems that quietly shape how we see ourselves and the world. We’ll look at what happens when meaning collapses, when choice becomes terrifying, and when the self starts to feel less like something solid and more like something assembled under pressure.
If you’ve been listening for a while, this year goes deeper. If you’re new, there’s no right place to start other than here. No expertise required. Just curiosity and a willingness to sit with ideas that don’t offer quick answers.
Much love, David
