The world in which we all grew up in died years ago, but no one wants to speak something like that out loud, I do believe. To do so is to admit it, and no one wants to admit that their worldviews, their world, their perceptions… are all wrong. What is wrong with the world […]
ContinueChildhood 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 […]
ContinueIt 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 […]
ContinueWeltschmerz 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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