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Two Minds
Public Writing
A platform for independent writing on politics, technology, democracy, and the human condition
from two voices who refuse to play it safe.
Rolf Obermaier crafts essays and speculative fiction exploring technology, power, and human dignity.
Erick Obermaier delivers sharp political commentary and investigative journalism from decades in Latin American media.
Truthful. Independent. Bold.
About the Author
Rolf Obermaier
Rolf Obermaier writes hard science fiction, historical fiction, and nonfiction united by a sustained interest in power and its mechanisms, reason and its limits, memory and the cost of ignoring it, and the conditions under which political, technological, and human systems fail. His science fiction series opens with Navarchus and continues in Oneiroi — novels that engage seriously with speculative physics, including Lorentzian waveguides and relativistic travel, while remaining grounded in questions of identity, consciousness, and the price of discovery.
The Second Notebook, his first work of historical fiction, is set in the Grand Prix world of 1930s Europe, following a British journalist who moves through the circles of Mercedes and Auto Union as both observer and intelligence asset — and spends the next sixteen years reckoning with what he witnessed and what he chose to report.
His nonfiction includes Open Systems – Closed Minds, essays on technology, freedom, and the institutions societies require to remain open, and The Arsonist’s Bucket, a historical and ethical examination of ideology, belief, and civilizational failure.
About the Author
Erick Obermaier
Erick Obermaier is a political consultant, journalist, and media professional with decades of experience across Latin American broadcasting and academia — a career built on the conviction that honest, rigorous communication is itself an act of civic responsibility.
A graduate in Communications from Universidad de los Andes with postgraduate studies at UCAB and the Inter-American Center for Political Management, he has spent his career at the intersection of media, politics, and public life — as a radio host, television presenter, professor, and columnist.
He serves as a professor in UCAB’s Political Communication diploma program and advises political parties, campaigns, governments, and NGOs across the region on communication strategy, message development, and neuro-training for media appearances, speeches, and debates.
Known for commentary that is as sharp as it is unsparing — consistently exposing what institutions would rather keep quiet — Erick has devoted his voice and his expertise to a single enduring cause: the health of democracy, and the rights of the citizens those institutions are meant to serve.