Notes on a Comedy Night

In Autumn I visited the Gold Coast for a week and had the chance to go to a local bar’s comedy night in Surfer’s Paradise. I went with my girlfriend and her parents, and we paid $20 each for entry, which included a lineup of five amateur comedians and one professional comic, who was due … [Read more…]

What Incels Truly Want

Incels don’t want sex, they want something else. This is what Wikipedia tells us an Incel is: “Incel (/ ˈ ɪ n s ɛ l / IN-sel; a portmanteau of “involuntary celibate”) is a term closely associated with an online subculture of people (mostly white, male, and heterosexual) who define themselves as unable to get a … [Read more…]

Influencers: Basic Ideas and Observations

1 – Sketching an Influencer Portrait In the earlier days of YouTube, when it had reached mainstream usage but not mainstream consciousness (around 2010-2015), as anyone who watched much YouTube would know, a large section of the site was prodigiously dominated by video game footage. People would upload interesting gameplay videos, sometimes to music, sometimes … [Read more…]

5 Ideas about Solitude

1: From Solitude Springs Self through Thought A person can only have thoughts consciously in solitude — when we are paying full attention to another thing or person we can not have a thought occur to us, as the moment attention is pulled away from the interior boundary of the mind and directed towards something in the external … [Read more…]