Beauty is such a strange sadness to a wise beholder. Truth, wrapped in youth like those blossoms that in aging inadvertently aspire to become the hollow frames or elder coccoons to which their own pattern or tapestry in time must trace an inevitable descent and unforgiving trajectory. We celebrate the flower, the spring growth and…
The Storm is upon us all…
There is a deepening feeling of doom (and gloom) as coronavirus begins to take hold across our community. We see the numbers growing daily; accelerating, exponentiating. At some point this will no longer be "someone else's" illness, it will be upon us; a tidal surge of trillions of sinister nano-scale biological robots, wicked ribonucleic algorithms…
The Simple Joys of (an) Everyday Emptiness
How strange it is that we should all spend our lives in pursuit of some idealised goal of perfect self-abstraction, of well-defined subjectivity and psychological closure when everything we learn on this journey of life informs us that this is in fact impossible. We learn by entrainment and enculturation that we should abhor and shum…
Not
We are not so much trapped in our own minds and lives as we are trapped and bound by and in those of others. Personal dissatisfaction and unhappiness is common, perhaps ubiquitous, and is at base a shared endeavour; for all its dissonance and discomfort, it must be assumed that it is a property of…
Social Media and a Self-Curated Spiral of Depression
Does social media only really exploit us and invoke reflexive psychological and emotional dependency?
A Fascination with Broken Things
Broken things and imperfect people are often far more interesting than are complete and whole ones...
Generational Melancholy
Every generation reinvents ennui.
Ephemeral Beauty
The most beautiful things we ever experience are made all the more beautiful by their utter transience, impermanence and fleeting nature in time.
Manufacturing Loneliness
Psychological deficits and emotional asymmetry may the price (or at least - the cost) of social, economic and cultural continuity.
On Setting Suns
The mad parade of daily, weekly, yearly working life catches up with me in these moments...
Suffering
There is no meaning beyond what we make and there is no freedom from suffering beyond what we each and ourselves choose to shape...
