Animal Crossing Life Lessons
With the privilege of age comes time to reflect upon what might have been influential in your life. This is my ode to Animal Crossing.
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Indefatigable: An Optimist Reads 1984 and Brave New World
We need only observe present elements of society to imagine which future we might be inching closer to.
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Step back for a second and examine what’s going on in front of you. Is it really something revolutionary, or just a well-disguised continuation of something else?
Read more "The Social Construct is a Social Construct"On Trump, Brexit, and General Discontent
Trump and Brexit didn’t just shock the world–they should cause it concern, at least to those on the helm of globalization. There’s no reason to believe that all aboard aren’t willing to capsize the very ship they’re riding on.
Read more "On Trump, Brexit, and General Discontent"Lest We Forget: Biden Cannot Be Our Candidate
Support Joe Biden—go ahead. But just know, you’ll be dooming us all.
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The worker fears automation because he is offered nothing in return. Maybe its emergence is what the worker should hope for, for others to validate his humanity and needs.
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In 2016, a Trump victory was unthinkable. In 2020, it’s almost unavoidable, that is, unless Democrats recycle a better playbook.
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For a country so enamored with its Founding Fathers, it would be good if we actually read what they wrote every now and then, rather than speculate on what we think they said or meant.
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Identity politics is not a left-only game. As is common for conservatives, their exercise in cognitive dissonance is, at this point, as admirable as it is annoying.
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Each political party is ready to tear the other one apart. I hope that by the end of it all, we at least have fireworks to distract us from the chaos.
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