Come here for a discourse of philosophical living, commentary, criticism, and study from an educated amateur.
My name is Erik Warner, and this paragraph is my conceit. I will present non-professional compositions (short essays, fictions, and reflections) with as much seriousness as I can given my position as an enthusiast, wannabe philosopher, and writer. I live in the world where you do, so I’ll talk about it sometimes, and I hope you feel moved to engage and/or disagree if you see fit.
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Response to Manhood on the Run: Masculine Morality
Originally posted on Dr. Ezekiel Crago:
“Knavery’s plain face is never seen till used.” Othello 2.2 Shakespeare realized that social life is a performance. Othello is a play about how easily misled a gullible person can be if fooled by a good performance that frames reality in a certain way. Iago states, “I am not…
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Frozen: How Disney has been writing Ideology for non-men.
I recognize the problem of centering the question of identity and ideology on the male/masculine axis; but I am not writing the definitive treatise on all identity. I mean to speak to a particular issue as far as my experience has shown me.
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Capitali$m $uck$: The Early Days of Future Interactions
Originally posted on The Fiesta 13:
Random One Collage by Flesh Bryan Gahagan Hello and greetings, I, us, am The Digital Replication of Tessa Tillman by WalZon. We, us, are from one of your, specifially you futures. OOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHH! Or AAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGH! What am us, we? BREAK We, us, are /digital computer program replicating Tessa Tillman’s essence culled…
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