POIGNANT
1. a. Arousing deep emotion, especially pity or sorrow; touching
b. Keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
c. Physically painful
2. Piercing; incisive: poignant criticism.
3. Agreeably intense or stimulating
OPULENCE
January 13, 2020
FIGHT CLUB AND TOXIC MASCULINITY
January 01, 2020
"Toxic masculinity is a social script, that tells men and boys that the right way to be a man is to be violent, emotionally unavailable, and sexually agressive. It is a narrow, confining definition of a man that shuts off a vast range of human experiences. It tells them what pursuits are worthy, what styles are acceptable."
PERSPECTIVE AS THE STORY IN FLEABAG
June 07, 2018
Fleabag: [to her dad] Oh fuck it, I have a horrible feeling that I'm a greedy perverted, selfish, apathetic, cynical, depraved, morally bankrupt woman who can't even call herself a feminist.
HOW WE ENSLAVE OURSELVES
March 20, 2018
Since the birth of civilization, tyrannical rulers have plagued mankind. Driven by an insatiable appetite for power such individuals have done their best to control both the minds and bodies of their subjects. Seen in this light, the history of civilization is very much a history of varying degrees of human enslavement.
HOW THE MICROBIOME CHALLENGES OUR CONCEPT OF SELF
February 08, 2018
The realization that humans are not individual, discrete entities but rather the outcome of ever-changing interactions with microorganisms has consequences beyond the biological disciplines. In particular, it calls into question the assumption that distinctive human traits set us apart from all other animals––and therefore also the traditional disciplinary divisions between the arts and the sciences.
HOW TO AVOID EMBARRASSING YOURSELF IN AN ARGUMENT - JORDAN PETERSON
January 21, 2018
THE KINDLED BRAIN
October 02, 2017
When I got depressed for the first time, at age 27, what surprised me most was the sheer physicality of it. My arms and legs, numb and pendulous as dumbbells, resisted my half-hearted attempts to animate them, and my perception was equally leaden. Taking in the world felt like gazing through a stained-glass pane, trying to make out the wavy shapes on the other side.
PROBLEMS WITH YOUTUBE & THE INTERNET CREATORS GUILD: TECHNOLOGY & POLITICS
February 02, 2017
THE PLEASURES OF PESSIMISM
May 24, 2017
For essayists and philosophers, what we cannot forgive is, first, the suspicion that our writer has a personal axe to grind, and second, perhaps even worse, dullness, a lack of panache. The slightest feeling that facts are being manipulated in order to support a position in which, for some spoilsport reason, the author has a personal investment, is fatal. The reader, that is, must recognize that a genuine truth is being acknowledged.
CHANGE BECOMES YOU
September 18, 2017
This is a puzzling idea, for someone to become ‘not the same person any more’. The phrase smacks of philosophy – perhaps even obscurity. Yet it is simultaneously apt, capturing the emotive sense of no longer recognising someone whom we once knew. Many have witnessed someone they loved change so profoundly that the person remaining seems an entirely different one.
THE VAMPIRE PROBLEM
September 12, 2017
And so, if you want to make the decision by thinking about what your lived experience would be like if you decided to undergo the experience, you have a problem… You find yourself facing a decision where you lack the information you need to make the decision the way you naturally want to make it — by assessing what the different possibilities would be like and choosing between them.
"BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT!"
September 28, 2017