About

The Name

Naivety has a bad reputation.

We treat it as a liability — something to be corrected, educated out of, grown past. But there is another kind of naivety. The radical kind. The kind that refuses to accept that the way things are is the way they have to be. The kind that asks obvious questions because obvious questions deserve real answers.

That naivety belongs to the son. The one still asking. The one who hasn't stopped being curious, no matter how many times the world has tried to make that feel foolish.

Naive's Son is that curiosity with a platform.

The Voice

I'm Errol — a retired registered nurse, lifelong reader, and writer who has been watching the world and taking notes for longer than I care to admit. After years of working in healthcare — witnessing policy fail people up close, in real time, at the bedside — I developed a particular kind of skepticism. Not cynicism. Skepticism. The kind that still believes clarity is possible, even when the systems designed to deliver it fall short.

I write under the name lorre187, and I've been making sense of the intersection of technology, politics, and culture for most of my adult life. Science fiction taught me to think in futures. Music taught me to feel the present. Nursing taught me that the personal is always political — and that the body is never just a body.

The Mission

Naive's Son exists at a specific intersection: Afro-futurist thinking applied to the everyday. That means examining the politics that shape our lives, the culture that reflects them, and the technology that is rapidly rewriting both — through a lens that centers Black thought, Black voices, and a vision of the future that includes us not as an afterthought, but as architects.

This isn't an academic journal. It's not a news feed. It's a blog in the original sense — a place where one person's honest, well-researched, deeply felt perspective is offered up to whoever finds it useful. The commentary here is left-of-center, unapologetically so, and grounded in the belief that curiosity is a form of resistance.

The Categories

Politics — Because governance is personal, and silence is never neutral.

Culture — Because art, music, and social trends are the water we swim in, whether we notice it or not.

Lifestyle — Because how we live is a political act, and daily life deserves serious thought.

Technology — Because the future is being written right now, and not everyone has a seat at the table.

Everyday Commentary — Because sometimes the most important observations happen between the headlines.

A Word on Naivety

The most dangerous question is the simple one. 'Why does it work like this? Who does this serve? What are we actually talking about when we say that?' These questions are naive. They are also the ones most worth asking.

Welcome to the conversation.

— Errol / lorre187