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Philosophy

Loaded Dice

The simple and uncomfortable truth of urban life is that it functions as a kind of brightly lit direct-to-consumer clearance warehouse with lifestyle amenities, an abattoir with good coffee. Marginalisation and exclusion are not side effects; they are throughput. Value is not attached to who you are, how you feel, or what you believe except […]

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memoir

Structural Exile

I grew up inside fracture. Not the cinematic kind, not the kind that produces easy narrative arcs of redemption, but the slow, dislocating kind that dissolves continuity. Family breakdown did not make me resilient or strong. It pushed me sideways, out of the main flow, and then quietly out of sight. By my late teens, […]