It’s 2024, and while politics dominates the landscape, I can’t help but feel that everything looks a little too familiar, as a student of history.…
Thoughts from the edge of ordinary
Tag: existentialism
Type of book: Post-apocalyptic novel, philosophical novel, survival story Cormac McCarthy’s The Road is a bleak, yet profoundly moving story set in a post-apocalyptic world…
Skepticism is one of my favorite philosophical fields of study, probably because it reminds me of a curious three-year-old with an endless stream of “whys.”…
Let’s talk about being. You know, existence. That thing we wake up every day to face with coffee in hand and half-baked existential dread. Now,…
We’ve all spent more time than necessary thinking about everything that’s wrong with the world. From global catastrophes to personal insecurities, it’s easy to fall…
Ever wonder why you suddenly feel the need to buy those trendy shoes everyone at the PTA meeting is wearing? Or why your mood takes…
Curiosity. It’s not just for cats, children, or detectives in murder mysteries. It’s for you, me, and anyone trying to navigate this wonderfully chaotic thing…
“Are We All Just Geckos in a Bigger Cage?” The other night, as I was watching Neo, the kids’ gecko, I couldn’t help but marvel…
The “thing-in-itself,” or as Kant so elegantly put it, das Ding an sich. Fancy right? It sounds like something you might overhear at a philosophy…
Ever find yourself wishing the world would just get it together? Maybe if your job wasn’t so stressful, your relationships were simpler, or the universe…