Life after door kicking.

Category: philosophy

  • Rage by a Thousand Cuts — A First-Person Stoic Reflection

    This morning wasn’t destroyed by one big thing.It was wrecked by a thousand tiny irritants — a soggy dish towel left in the sink, my son taking the last two bananas probably to smoke out of, chores undone even after I gave extra money, him dragging his feet and making everyone late, my wife getting…

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  • Learning to rebel against yourself.

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    When I was young, Tupac felt like the deepest philosopher alive. He shaped the way I saw injustice and what we owe each other. Back then, I honestly believed the purpose of government was simple: help the people who can’t help themselves. Universal healthcare? Seemed like a no-brainer.Housing the homeless? I still think that one…

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  • From Duty to Dad: Navigating Fatherhood After War

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    I never really knew my dad.If you added up all the time I spent with him, it wouldn’t make six months. The first time I saw him, I was around eight, and I don’t remember doing much with him. The next time was as a preteen, and that round didn’t do me any favors —…

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  • Power Is, Was, And Will Always Be the Rule

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    Every time a major power acts decisively, someone warns that “a dangerous precedent has been set.” That assumes history was ever governed by precedent rather than permission. It wasn’t. States have always done what they could get away with. What changes is only who notices.What feels destabilizing today is the recognition of a truth we…

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  • Democracy Isn’t Dying—It Was Designed to Decay

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    In 2016, something broke in me—not emotionally, but philosophically. It wasn’t just the candidates. It was what they represented. On one side, a career politician who embodied every manipulative, transactional instinct of the political class. On the other, a billionaire game show host playing populist messiah. Presented with this absurd binary, I assumed this had…

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