Essay
A Case against Fun, Presented by an Optimistic Killjoy
Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at
January 21, 2023
Was it for this I uttered prayers, And sobbed and cursed and kicked the stairs That now, domestic as a plate, I should retire at
The “Illusory Truth Effect”: le monde entier est un cactus If a statement is repeated enough times, does it become more true? We don’t like
Reaction videos? “This is numbing stuff, ideal for an evening of lite binging in a hypnagogic state of half-attention. It is content that demands no
Both corporations and the American government should bear a certain amount of responsibility for public well-being. They both benefit from money generated from consumers or
“Because we’ve simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line.” The tropes that we live by: who writes them? Why do we believe them?
Manipulation of perception, or attentiveness to the feelings of others? Comedians get away with raising issues that most of us would be mortified (“Scared Shitless?”)
Source: https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_to_be_more_authentic_at_work I’ve only cited the first paragraph, and that’s enough for a quick “Reaction.” Professor Hewlin is going to teach us how to be
Center and Periphery: a too Long Preface I don’t want to focus on the grosser hypocrisies that characterize our culture at the present moment, such
Smart Shit 2: “Both stupid and spectacular” Much of my energies are devoted to drawing out unintended consequences on human being of practices that inhabit
A Childhood Memory (two, actually) When I was six I used to pop tar bubbles in the summer. The sun would bake the tar that