Heirs to the Wreckage
Trying to make sense of reality.
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I’ve recently been trying to understand a certain thinker, Jacques Lacan. I took an undergrad course on him and was enticed because he was fascinated with the role of language in our everyday lives. Language, and our “personas” in society are to some extent a mask, and few understood this better than him. Reflecting on…
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Let’s retreat from the binaries of good and bad for a moment, try and live in that world we call objectivity. Liberalism is riddled with the problems of “doing good”, which in the US nowadays amounts less to recognizing the problems within the project and more with checking boxes. The worst kind of American liberal…
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There’s no phrase I see levied with more spite on the internet than the term “woke”, usually complemented by other edgy conservative insults like “leftist”, “radical”, “gay”. They deliver these terms like adolescents who’ve gleefully acquired a new swear word. What is being woke exactly? And how has it come to be so hated in…
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I debated naming this blog “The Political Jungle”, which references a high school blog I was involved with as an assignment. Sadly my group and I never took it past a school project, but I found the exercise of writing in it liberating, and I’ve paid it a small homage in this first title. The…
Heirs to the Wreckage 