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The Poor Rich
Strange lessons from the Netflix show ‘How To Get Rich’
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Dinesh Schaffter, RIP
For our beloved uncle, who was murdered on December 15th
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How We Don’t Live Under Capitalism
The best things in life are free
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Life After Death
Like day after night
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How Grief Is An Out Of Body Experience
Grief is pain felt in other bodies
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A Day In The Life Of A Migrant
The life of an expat in Oxford
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1.3) My Life As A Rock Monster
Ashes from ashes, dust from dust
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0.1) Birth
The next part of a book I'm writing.
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Life Is Never Getting Back To ‘Normal’
Grouches of the world unite
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The Existential Terror Of Amazon Prime
How next-day delivery is the new opiate of the masses
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What You Learn Watching Kids Fight
We try to teach them, but what do we know?
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The Servitude Of Our Times
We still have servants, we just don’t look at them
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How Modern Civilization Is So Temporary
Modern buildings are so shit compared to cathedrals and climates
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How Are You? Nobody Is Fine
How asking ‘how are you?’ is both heroic and banal
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What To Do When Someone Dies
When someone close dies and you’re far away
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Turning 40 At The End Of The World (As I Know It)
and I feel fine
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The Physical Impossibility Of Climate Collapse In The Mind Of Someone Living
How we’re living on borrowed time
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How The Fossil Record Shows The Rise Of Machines
Grave goods mark the evolution of commodities, not human beings
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Between Waking And Dreaming
On the unreality of reality and the power of dreams
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My Experience Of Sri Lanka’s Big Protest
The powerful protests of July 9th, 2022
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When Your Life Becomes News It’s Miserable
I never wanted to be some scribe of collapse, least of all for my own country
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These Are The Good Years
These terrible years are actually better than what’s to come. Sorry to harsh your buzz
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Misfortune Favors The Paranoid
How I’ve learned to over-react as Sri Lanka collapses
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How To Parent In This Unruly Age
Lol I don't know
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Leaving.
Leaving my country as it collapses.
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Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Feelings
Look at Magritte instead
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Are You Depressed If Things Are Actually Sad?
When the world goes mad, only a crazy person stays sane
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A Death Too Young
On losing a young friend
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At Least It’s A Good Time For Philosophy
When there’s blood on the streets, do philosophy
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Three Happy Moments
In a rather stressful life
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You Don’t Have To Be You All The Time
Being a citizen and a consumer all the time sucks. We’re social animals and being disconnected hurts
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The Constant Stress Of The World Constantly Ending
Life under wave after wave of disaster
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What’s In A Name?
Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien
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The Illusion Of Being Alone
We are born together and die together
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The Horror Of Starvation
The most unforgivable cruelty of White Empire
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When Death Isn’t News Anymore
COVID isn’t new anymore, so the news is moving on
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The Beggars Of Capitalism
The poverty at our doorsteps
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When Did Avoiding The Plague Become Controversial?
I still don't want to get COVID
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How Too Much Data Makes People Stupid
This is your brain on TMI
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Some Cows On The Beach
The life of a beach cow
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How Self Help Is A Dead End (A Buddhist View)
If there is no-self, how do you help it?
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The Sadness Of Plenty
Whenever my daughter asks me for something we can give it. So many parents can't.
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The Crazy Experience Of Seeing People After Years
Crawling out of the pandemic foxhole for a self-declared Christmas truce
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How Humans Must Adapt To Climate Collapse Or Die (And How We'll Probably Die Anyways)
A long historical view on climate, capitalism, and life
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The Tragedy Behind Children's Stories
We’re killing the animals our children love
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Taking A Vacation To My Past
You can go home, but you can never return
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Something Happy To Write About
There's always children
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Everything Is Breaking Down
and nothing will be fine
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The Concept Of Enough
You don't need to be rich, famous, or powerful to be happy. You just need enough
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All The Work I Do Not Do
The comfort and conflict of domestic work