Inner Beauty Parry 12/14/21 – The YouTube Dislike Meter Elegy (The Internet’s Final Tantrum)

The destroyed the dislike button a few days ago. On YouTube. Maybe I should say the “dislike meter”. The button is still there. And I’m sure a few millions of could feel our stomachs turn. Our lower lips clench. Our eyes take in air as they flared. As we said to ourselves, “the ability forContinue reading “Inner Beauty Parry 12/14/21 – The YouTube Dislike Meter Elegy (The Internet’s Final Tantrum)”

THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 9/8/21 – The Silent Honor of Enforcing Licenses Explains Nearly Everything

Writing about licenses is a bit of a strange thing for me to do. I don’t really have a license to do anything. Never really acquired one. And when it comes to ID cards….I’ve already written about that before. But right now I can’t think of a better way to articulate what’s inside of me.Continue reading “THE HUNTERIAN OPIATE 9/8/21 – The Silent Honor of Enforcing Licenses Explains Nearly Everything”

The Found Emotion.com – 10 Examples of the Emotion I Discovered

Welcome, stranger. Give me a bit of your time, and you will become a different person.See that tagline up there? Yes, I’m bold enough to insist that there’s an emotion without a name. I’ve described it up there. Let’s move forward. 1.  Shut the fuck up Apple, You don’t own Charlie Brown There are people “generously”Continue reading “The Found Emotion.com – 10 Examples of the Emotion I Discovered”

I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level

If you take a look back in time, inside your philosophy textbooks, you’ll find that one of the big topics is virtue. Those people talked a lot about what virtue is, how to acquire it, whether it has value. However, one of the big controversies about virtue was that…..you could never prove if someone hadContinue reading “I RISE ABOVE POPULAR CULTURE: How Frustration Over Virtue Explains The Internet, Tradition, Rage, Love, and the Raw Essence of Human Interaction on an Astonishing Level”

Original Comparisons: Why “Shut Up” is like “I’m Sorry”.

People are always telling each other to “shut up”. “Shut up, shut shut up, shut up!” Yeah, it rhymes, yeah, it sounds nice. It’s so mean. It feels so right. People are always saying “sorry.” “I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m so sorry.” It sounds so tender, it’s a conflict ender. These two little phrases, sourcesContinue reading “Original Comparisons: Why “Shut Up” is like “I’m Sorry”.”

Gangster’s Cosmic Breath / The Plasmatic Dignity (Invoke Yourself: A Human Manifesto 4.1)

There are many things that I want to say and much I want to do. This world is overflowing with things that I want to change, and ways I want to find fulfillment. But for now, in this place, at this point in time, there is only thing I need to do. It’s a keyContinue reading “Gangster’s Cosmic Breath / The Plasmatic Dignity (Invoke Yourself: A Human Manifesto 4.1)”

The Blossoming Locus (Invoke Yourself: A Human Manifesto 1.1)

“The blossoming locus” is the notion that the world, life, and what makes us uniquely human is that we feel and interact with the primal understanding that some things are completely and utterly independent of other things while other matters are completely and absolutely intertwined. And that, for any situation, or any evaluation both ofContinue reading “The Blossoming Locus (Invoke Yourself: A Human Manifesto 1.1)”