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Scattered Musings on Neoplatonism

Note to the reader: I wrote this sloppily and I’m too lazy to edit it.

Oct 11, 2022

Oct 11, 2022

The Mystery of Music

Music is wiggly air. Yet it can make us feel the deepest of emotions. Why? Come with me on a journey, dear reader, as we try to answer this…

Jan 7, 2023

Jan 7, 2023

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The Chinese Room

If you started with $1, and then doubled your money every day for a month, you would have over $500 million by the end of the month. And…

Jan 5, 2023

Jan 5, 2023

Carl Jung and the Archetypes

Four years ago, I read an essay by Carl Jung, entitled Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious. At the time, I expected the essay to be…

Dec 30, 2022

Dec 30, 2022

Stars Built the Pyramids

A lot of people are scared of ghosts, but you know what’s scarier than a ghost? A star. Seriously. Those things are crazy. We just don’t…

Dec 29, 2022

Infinite Jest: A (Sort of) Book Review

Like many, I discovered David Foster Wallace through his 2005 commencement speech at Kenyon College. I’m not going to say much about the…

Nov 26, 2022

Nov 26, 2022

The Problem With Self-Help

“If you’re looking for self-help, why would you buy a book written by somebody else? That’s not self-help. That’s just help.” — George…

Nov 24, 2022

Nov 24, 2022

How to Be Good at Skywars

For as long as I’ve known Minecraft existed, I’ve loved Skywars. It’s a perfect meld of the strategic game-sense of Bedwars and the…

Nov 14, 2022

Nov 14, 2022

In Defense of Cringe

We’ve all felt it.

Sep 29, 2022

Sep 29, 2022

1Q84: A Book Review

When I sat down in Barnes and Noble with Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84 in my lap, I was only expecting to spend maybe 5 minutes reading it before…

Sep 6, 2022

Sep 6, 2022