Month: February 2021

When I was a wee lad, my father imparted a distinctly memorable piece of knowledge upon me, a maxim that, if my memory serves me correctly, hailed from some Asian philosopher and roughly translated to “the lazy man works twice as hard”. For context, I am a quite unbelievably lazy person. And my father, knowing… Continue reading The Case for Being Lazy and Working Twice as Hard

The transfusion of physical and digital technologies has held a number of well documented negative implications for consumer societies: digital absorption, the rise of throwaway consumerism, etc. But there is one such negative implication that is, in my eyes, unjustly, and congruently, dangerously overlooked, when examining this transfusion: the decline of ownership. Physically, this decline,… Continue reading Things not Owned

It’s no secret that religious tendencies, in the traditional non-philosophy sense, have been in sharp decline. In a trend likely exacerbated through the internet enabled spread of ideas, the traditional religion (Christianity, Judaism, and Islamism) is not nearly as popular or prevalent in the public’s lives as it was even 40 years ago. And while… Continue reading In Light of Religion

We, as a race, have a terribly self-destructive tendency to over quantify the unquantifiable. It’s the sole cause of religion. Of materialism. And, perhaps most pertinent to 21st century American politics, and most definitely to this piece, it’s what leads to political partisanship. In his final public address as the first President of the United… Continue reading The Illusion of Choice