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Fluff kills!

“You will listen to your corporals. Their instructions will give you a better chance to survive.” I reckon the other rookies scoffed at those words, like I did. I was fresh out of university, and conscription had caught up with…

THE DEATH OF CONNECTION: He Posted His Divorce. You Scrolled. No One Listens.

Kris Kristofferson released that song To Beat the Devil. It boils down to not believing that nobody is listening. That stuck with me. We do still listen. But not the way we used to. There was a time when a…

THE WAR ON THE SELF: Learning to Speak to Yourself Like Someone Worth Saving

Carlson was in his early 60s when he passed away, surrounded by filth. I saw a few photographs of his lodgings shortly before he passed away. The general consensus was that this man just didn’t care anymore. He couldn’t care…

THE HUNGER FOR MEANING: Scrolling while your soul starves, and yearning to escape.

THE HUNGER FOR MEANING Scrolling while your soul starves. It’s important to me to remember that people also experienced existential crises in the 80s. One of my schoolmates committed suicide. He stared out of the window one day, just before…

You won’t change the world

You won’t change the world. You light a fuse in blue-collar Joe who’s had enough. He burns down what you couldn’t torch. You guard the embers. You wait for the next spark.

The Language of Getting Scammed, Naming the Wreckage, and Leaving It Behind

I needed to get scammed a little, at least once in my life. It didn’t lead to financial ruin, or personality death and public evisceration. Crawling back from that scam transformed into a brutal course. Real Life 101. That heinous…

THE LIE OF SUCCESS: You Were Not Promoted. You Were Repositioned

Promotions that feel like punishments. “Congratulations. You now get to drown with a better title.” Glen emerged from his military career as a Major. Nice dude. He was surprisingly “unmilitary” in bearing. We reminisced about trivial shared experiences like inedible…