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Getting Rid of the Last Remaining Amateurishness in My Philosophy
Insight about narrative orientation and sensemaking.
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An Example of How Our Narratives Cause Our Unnecessary Suffering
Near death experience on the highway leads to philosophical insight.
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Indian Middle-Class Guilt
I would like to be an artist. But something within me, stops me from expressing myself freely. I don’t know what I want to express or how I want to express it; but that’s something you learn by doing. It’s not that you think about what you want to express and have a clear picture…
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Clutching at Straws
The man woke up one dayafter sleeping for agesEons spent with eyes closedbody comatose, mind adriftthe unconscious seasImaginary creaturesunknown fears, unseen beastslooking for a straw to hold on to The man woke up and stretchedhis tired limbs brokenfrom too much unuseHis blind eyes criedon seeing the lightthat set his mind on fireHe clutched the sheet,…
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Audiobooks are a Scam!
Our culture is obsessed with productivity. It’s not enough to do one thing at a given time. If we’re doing something that doesn’t require 100% focus and attention, then we must listen to something on the side, so as to maximize the productivity we can wring out of each moment. If we don’t do it,…
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Terrence Howard And My Own Delusions of Grandeur
A few months ago, the actor Terrence Howard appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience and expounded on his theories about math, physics, chemistry etc. His theories, and I’m being as polite as I can manage, were pure bovid excrement. He talked about how 1 x 1 can’t be 1 and should be 2. He talked…
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Hendrix is Dead
HENDRIX is dead. Look at him just lying there. His stomach has stopped moving. Or has it? Did it just move? How am I to tell? I’m no doctor. I should have just left him with the vet like he said. I brought him home, stayed up all night watching him suffer and now he’s…
