Context: Husserl’s Phenomenology (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePQIagmcCXc) [Framing Definition] What is Love? I believe that I have an experience of Love, but I cannot articulate its definition in words. I cannot draw sharp distinctions in reality which can differentiate “Love” from “Non-Love,” and I can hardly give you a guide to determine whether…

I work at Google, so I make a decent (for the Bay Area) amount of money. I have extremely complicated feelings around it, for various ethical and personal reasons. …

Whiteness is a drug you’re addicted to. And I know it’s a drug, cuz I’ve been addicted… When you’re at Burning Man or some festival or whatever surrounded by your friends and you don’t notice that none of them are black and you don’t notice that there’s a certain way…

OK so I am not going to try to structure this and I am not going to edit it, because Class is an infinitely complicated and difficult topic to even approach, and I don’t have an exhaustive set of thoughts, but I had some thoughts today that I wanted to…

“What is ‘Normal?’ What is ‘Weird?’” Descriptivism vs. Prescriptivism I want to begin by stating that I am neither a Linguistic Descriptivist nor am I a Linguistic Prescriptivist. I believe that both a descriptive characterization of a word or words (how the word has been used historically, and how it is currently used…

Warren Because long before nations and before we knew time as days minutes seconds long before we counted ourselves or even knew how many of us there were to count long before we wrote anything down long before we knew how to hate people we never even met long before…

Oh you poor soul, you have stumbled upon the pages of a spell (and you thought this was going to be an essay about Running Though the Hills and Joy and all of that (and perhaps it will be)). …

Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained. — Marie Curie A meme is the mental analogue of a gene. A…

“With racism, one has to be very precise not to fight racism in a way which ultimately reproduces, if not directly racism itself, at least the conditions for racism” — Slavoj Žižek I was speaking with a friend tonight and we were talking about which countries have crazy people and…