Fraggle carried her dead calf through the water for eleven days. Whatever that was like for her, it was like something. That fact does not require our understanding to be true.
When speaking the truth becomes difficult, and those who do so are celebrated as courageous, there is certainly something deeply and structurally wrong with the system.
Are we socialised to suppress our deepest, primal instincts?
“Maybe there is a beast… maybe it’s only us.” – William Golding, Lord of the Flies
kindness finds its form not in treatises or lectures but in a helping hand extended, a smile offered freely, laughter shared, and a simple word or two that says you matter.
Are we haunted by an absence we can never name, and thus can never fill?
Is pessimism an undeniable current running through human existence?
Modern nationalism propagates a paradox: it increasingly demands what citizens can do for the nation, while obfuscating the state’s fundamental duty to its citizens.
Trump, the brand, will continue to haunt the American psyche.
Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them – Marcus Aurelius.
Drawing on thinkers from Veblen to Debord, the piece examines how wealth has turned celebration into spectacle & exclusion into aspiration.