I Just Know (That I Don’t Know)
Certainty often presents itself as clarity, but more often it functions as comfort dressed up as truth. This piece traces how belief becomes identity and how doubt gets mislabeled as weakness instead of attention. It moves through ego, contradiction, and the instability beneath conviction, arriving not at resolution but at a more honest kind of uncertainty. Not answers, but awareness, might be the real destination.
No Such Thing As Nothing
True nothingness collapses under its own definition because even absence requires existence to be understood. This essay moves through that paradox alongside depression, compulsive stimulation, and a very specific fear of bears named Frank. It circles the idea that existence cannot be escaped or reversed, only confronted. What remains is not comfort, but the strange necessity of everything continuing to be.
Reality as a Rough Draft
Reality begins to feel less like a fixed structure and more like something being revised in real time, saturated with contradiction and improbable timing. Written through the lens of an artist shaped by the technological era, this piece considers whether what looks like chaos might actually be creative overflow at scale. It entertains the unsettling possibility that lived experience is more constructed than it appears.
Love of Sex without Love
People often interpret detached sexuality as emotional damage, avoidance, or unresolved history. This piece sits inside that assumption and pushes back against it, questioning the idea that physical intimacy must always carry emotional meaning to be valid. It reflects on how quickly external interpretation turns into certainty, even when it misses lived experience entirely.
This American Lie
The United States exists in a condition of extremes, where extraordinary wealth coexists with systemic deprivation. This essay examines how hyper-individualistic capitalism produces both billionaires and precarity at scale, while framing inequality as inevitability rather than design. It contrasts American outcomes with social democratic models abroad and argues for structural change grounded in basic human dignity rather than wealth accumulation.
Cashing In on Convicts
The American prison system operates less as a mechanism of rehabilitation and more as an economic structure built on incarceration. This essay examines how profit incentives shape sentencing, occupancy, and recidivism, reinforcing cycles of imprisonment rather than breaking them. It contrasts this with rehabilitation-focused models abroad and argues that justice systems driven by revenue inevitably distort justice itself.
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.