Weltschmerz: Infantilized Adults and Managed Choices

Childhood isn’t for children anymore, but instead is fed into a nostalgia machine for adults. What I mean by this is that childhood itself is no longer treated as something to be protected, where kids are allowed to be kids, where their development is fostered by caring adults. I mean, it’s been getting worse, as […]

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Weltschmerz: All Bad Things

It is comforting to think that all things can come to some conclusion or an ending eventually. All good things, after all, must come to an end. Is it true for bad things? On the grand scale, certainly. All life on earth will end one day. But I don’t really care, because the end of […]

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Weltschmerz: On Living at the End of a Bad Idea

Weltschmerz is a borrowed word that I have come to think of a lot lately. The weariness of the world. Well, to put a literal translation it means “world pain” and is a profound sadness over the world’s inherent evils and injustices, and also a melancholy. An apt word for the final curtain call for […]

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They never sleep, and we can’t dream.

I woke up again, god knows what day it was this time and did what I do in my ritual now in the morning.  I looked upon the glowing screen on my phone at the notifications. The harsh glow of the rectangle that is all and will be all shone upon my eyes in its […]

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