Dear Reader,
Things fall apart. We comprehend this when we shove facts together to cobble together truth. Perhaps prestige fades, a pillar of the community is trampled, or a noxious culture prohibits a man from living how he chooses. Things do not just fall but pull apart. Diplomacy with fate seems fruitless.
Internal tension grounds each article and artwork in this volume. Per the cover art, what the seer wants to dissect, the subject dissembles with the hint of crinkling, bemused eyes. Why have you wandered here? each approach to truth asks. We reach for the authentic, but do not first notice the gravity of obsession and perfect loneliness, that rehearsing a fact does not remove its mask. Why would infections occur in a safe medical practice? Why would wandering lead to no destination?
Because the open inquiry reveals the stupidity of expectations. That things pull apart is then a virtue: we observe and understand the parts alone. We do not understand how the whole works until we cling to the atom to comprehend its anatomy.
Forbes & Fifth asks readers to evade expectations and embark on discovery. As I’ve known it personally, the journal espouses the diversity of thought and perspective that show the many paths to truth. My earnest hope is that we of differing tribes commune through what we share.
With that, read on—enjoy what’s in store.
My best wishes,
Lucas Grasha