What Does Persisting Want?
Spinoza reduced good and evil to whatever increases or diminishes our power of acting. He could not have foreseen institutions whose own persistence runs on the confusion of…
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ALL TOO HUMAN
Daily Life. Everything permitted, Everything human.
16 essays
The Kindness That Keeps Us Small
Tocqueville named a power that would spare us the trouble of thinking and the pain of living, and every honest reader must admit that this is something we want.
Fractured Lens: Critical Thinking Is Under Attack
Our brains were built for movement, sunlight, and human contact. The post-COVID world delivers almost none of these. Fractured Lens shows how the modern lifestyle is dismantling the hippocampus: the brain's seat of reason - and why the erosion of critical thinking is now a civic emergency.
A Message on Survival, Loss, and Hope
This piece confronts mental health stigma, grief, and the reality behind suicide statistics, calling for open conversation and compassion. A message of resilience and hope, reminding anyone struggling that help exists and survival is possible.
Mortality
A personal story that leads to a meditation on death...
Love, Borderline Personality Disorder and The Space Between
Love under BPD feels electric and unstable. Intense highs collapse into despair without warning. Yet in naming the chaos, the author finds hope, understanding, and connection.
The Art of Settling
Far too many of us see standing out and being true to who we are as an act that's too heavy to bear. So we convince ourselves that "good enough" is happiness and that "safe" leads to satisfaction. But easy rarely ever leads to true fulfilment.
The Two Escapisms: Active and Passive
And the old escapism lies dead.
The Erotic Wound: Reclaiming the Full Feminine
The erotic wound is the silent ache of a generation of men shaped by sterile images.
The Theft Of Purity, Innocence and The Walk To Eudaimonia
No one tells you about the greatest gift.
The Distance Between Now And Everything
How blue and true can we get?
The Shaman’s Journey
How the Psychedelic Experience Mirrors the Hero’s Journey