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No Such Thing As Nothing
Absolute nothingness sounds imaginable only because language lets us mistake a noun-shaped hole for a real possibility. Moving through depression, compulsive restlessness, bears, bread factories, physics, and the fantasy of non-being, this essay argues that nothing was never on the table: something is, always, whether that is reassuring or unbearable.
Read entryA Footnote, Eventually
I knew it was AI before I even saw the label, and that instinct turned out to be more interesting than the film itself. A look at Leo Cannone's docustyle micro-short, fictionally set in Sardegna, and what it says about art, talent, and the harder question underneath: what happens to trust, in news, in evidence, in anything we see, once footage like this becomes indistinguishable from real life.
I Just Know (That I Don’t Know)
A personal account of leaving Christian certainty without abandoning the possibility of transcendence. This essay traces the moral experiences and logical contradictions that made inherited belief impossible to sustain, then asks what becomes possible when faith is no longer treated as evidence or used to govern other people's lives.
No Such Thing As Nothing
Absolute nothingness sounds imaginable only because language lets us mistake a noun-shaped hole for a real possibility. Moving through depression, compulsive restlessness, bears, bread factories, physics, and the fantasy of non-being, this essay argues that nothing was never on the table: something is, always, whether that is reassuring or unbearable.
Reality as a Rough Draft
Reality feels increasingly designed because every unresolved claim, contradiction, fabrication, and anomaly now reaches us at once without an editor. This essay tests the temptation to mistake information overload for cosmic narrative, catches itself repeating a compelling falsehood, and considers whether the rough draft is reality itself or merely our unfinished account of it.
Nobody Asks the Monogamous
The appetite for sex without a prescribed romantic story is often treated as evidence of damage, while monogamy escapes the same diagnostic scrutiny. This essay examines the religious and psychological language used to police desire, distinguishing avoidance from honest pleasure and arguing for a harder standard based on consent, honesty, attention, and care rather than counting.
This American Lie
We can afford it. Nobody believes we'll ever cough it up. Every argument about American poverty ends at the same shrug: we'd love to, but we can't afford it. This essay examines the load-bearing lie beneath that claim, the conversion of extreme wealth into unelected power, and what a democracy would choose if markets were made to serve the people inside it.
The Concession Stand
Fewer than nine percent of incarcerated Americans are held in private facilities. The deeper profit motive is distributed throughout the public and private prison apparatus: phone contracts, commissary markups, medical vendors, supervision fees, bail premiums, and prison labor. This essay follows the money through that concession stand and asks what incarceration is actually built to produce.
Sanctuary of Almost
Cafés became a recurring space of intention without execution, where writing was always anticipated but rarely realized. This piece reflects on that cycle of avoidance, where imagination substitutes for action and familiarity replaces progress. Over time, what looks like stagnation reveals itself as a slower, uneven movement toward output, shaped by anxiety, distraction, and persistence.