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When Did Philosophy Get So Boring?
How stories got whitewashed out of philosophy
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The Wrecking Of Names
Confucius said the most important thing was ‘rectifying names’. What did he mean?
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The Horror Of The Airport Perfume Aisle
Get me out of this damned spot
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𑁨 | The First Fuck
was given
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१ | 1.4) Salt Of The Universe
Your body is a temple, quarried from the stars
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1.3) My Life As A Rock Monster
Ashes from ashes, dust from dust
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1) Big Bang Baby: My First And Only Birth
How I was born in the Big Bang
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0.3) The Superunknown
The 'dark' and 'black' nature of most reality.
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0.1) Birth
The next part of a book I'm writing.
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You Are Not Your Name
Meditations on the self and names
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0.0) Starting A Book
The intro to the intro of a book
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Life Is Never Getting Back To ‘Normal’
Grouches of the world unite
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How Media Is Like A Dream
Row, row, row your boat, merrily down the mainstream
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Why Fascism Is Fashionable Again
At least it acknowledges that there’s a big problem
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The Failure Of Capitalism As An Ideology
And its continuing zombie existence, eating brains
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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 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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We’re History
As the curse goes, we live in interesting times
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Why We Need Climate Communism
Not planning our economies is just planning to fail
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The Violent Struggle Between Property And People
Property is winning.
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Sri Lanka And The Collapse Of Global Liberalism
Sri Lanka is a systemic collapse, and you live in the same system too
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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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How Films Are Like Psychotic Episodes
Watching ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’
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The Myth Of A Free Press
There is no free press. It’s very expensive
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How Dystopian Art Became Utopian Advertising
A Blade Runner future, Metaverse, and eating Soylent should all be terrifying. Instead, they’re cool.
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Why It’s So Hard To Talk About Feelings
Look at Magritte instead
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Socialism For Babies At Least 👶🏾☭
Toddlers of the world unite
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How We Misunderstand AI
We keep looking for AI that looks like us and missing what’s right in front of our eyes
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Anarchy For An Anarchic Village
Reading Tolstoy in a Sri Lankan protest village
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Science Is The New Science Fiction
Real collapse is just another on-screen dystopia
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What If Opinion Polls Actually Mattered?
Polls and the polis
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How The Hero’s Journey Is Totalitarian
When bad guys try to change the world, heroes put them down
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How Liberal Democracy Is Bullshit
People don’t have power. Elites do
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How You’re In A Symbiotic Relationship With Your Job
A Marxist reading of Spiderman
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Our Love/Hate Relationship With Violence
We love violent movies but get dismayed at violent news
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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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Why Voting Is Dumb
Electile dysfunction
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Advertising Is How Corporations Dream
And it’s a nightmare for human beings
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How Art Creates Parallel Universes
Every artist paints a window to another world
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The Economy Is Far Too Important To Be Left To Economists
How economists are the worst
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All The Lonely People, That’s Where Fascism Comes From
How the loneliness of capitalism trends towards fascism
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How We Live In A World Of Modern Ritual
Walking through an airport like walking through a temple
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How Democracy Is Not Good
Democracy is just a hammer, and lately it’s been clawing peoples eyes out
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How White Empire Blames Everyone Else
Mexico made them do drugs, Russia made them elect Trump, oligarchs made them launder money
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How Western Propaganda Has Been Privatized
Why buy the cow when you get the milk for free
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What’s In A Name?
Why having one ‘official’ name is so alien
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The Pointlessness Of COVID Travel Theatre
Most COVID rules are just rituals. They preserve hierarchies, but don’t change reality
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The Illusion Of Being Alone
We are born together and die together