The paradox of our time, remarks Slavoj Zizek, is that we know exactly what we are doing, yet we are nonetheless doing it. Not only do I think it’s true, but I think it puts us in a tremendously complicated mental position. It is probably the cause of much
I’ve recently become very fond of the expression “any port in a storm.” I think it sums up so much of our modern discourse, and whole sorting-ourselves-into-ideologies thing we have going on. It reveals what Nietzsche predicted around 150 years ago. That as structures of morality start to collapse,
Coffeeshops, malls, waiting rooms, gyms, bars, restaurants, parks, public washrooms, food courts, museum gift shops, and even the sidewalk. All of these places are now venues for noise. Unless you have been a recluse for the last few decades, you’ve experienced music blaring from loudspeakers in every one of
Let me preface this by saying I won’t be making a religious argument in this article. There won’t be references to the Bible. I won’t be telling you that you’re doomed to a life of tragedy if you don’t get baptized. There’s no shortage