It’s tough to be a woman these days. Our forebearers fought so bravely for equal rights and treatment. The earlier feminists whittled away sexism and oppression, liberating us with each protest, book and TV appearance. We got the right to vote, work, and pursue our own paths. We got the right to divorce and escape … [Read more…]
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…]
The Artist’s Fear and Trembling
The Artist’s anxiety can be resolved by artistic faith
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…]
The Birth of this Project
Creation is the highest task of a human being. This little experiment is defined by it.