post-occupy

Language changes over time, this is the natural course of any living thing, and languages act like they're living beings. So, we can't really stay in the past about this, although it's fun to slide in a few old words like we're Ann-Margret and Elvis Presley in Vegas every now and then. However...

I've been waking up for the past few days to air so poor in quality that I can't see beyond a few hundred feet. That lead me to think, are we living in a dystopia? Generally, a dystopia is described as a society in which there is great suffering and injustice. It appears that a some dystopian...

So the 2020's..... It's kinda... Awful?? In general, I think the start of the 2020s has been very disappointing and scary even. It feels like the start of major collapses across our society. It's getting harder and harder to latch onto hope and not become a doomer about it all. Heck, it's even...

The overton window has shifted. For those of you like myself who have been holding on to the idea that things will eventually return back to normal. This is the final pill. Ptolemy wrote an essay that really sums up where this whole ship is sailing, and its simpler than you think. Its a bit of a...

To be honest I'm kind of sick of meme culture at this point. It's something I've been feeling for over a year now and I've been trying to figure out why. I think the following observations may explain why I've been feeling this way. It may simply be a sign of cultural change or something worse...