Category: The Beautiful and The Doomed
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Doomer’s Guide Pt 6: Doomer Is As Doomer Does
“Alright then, canary, time to start singin.” Fair enough. Okay, I said before that doomerism is an affliction that affects a certain type of person – the problem here is, well, my problem is that I can’t think of a…
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Doomer’s Guide Pt 5: The Many Uses Of Lamentation
But lamenting who I was before my own personal fracturing (and honestly, I liked who I was. He was a swell guy, a real mensche type. It was honestly kind of a bummer watching him go) allowed me to see…
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Doomer’s Guide Pt 4: PrePox To MidPox
I guess I should answer the question: Who was I before the fraying (both the Big (societal) Fraying sparked off in March, 2020 and my smaller personal fraying sparked off in fall 2021)? This is a hard freakin question to…
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Doomer’s Guide Pt 3: It All Frays Apart
So, my mind broke. Or more specifically, this orientation I had towards Life, my personal little monkey way of being in this world was not just proven “wrong” during CF 2020s – that wouldn’t’ve been so bad, I’ve been wrong…
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Doomer’s Guide Pt 2: 2020, or Year 1 of the Collapse
Okay, so that little bit of context should be enough to get us started – so, back to the beginning: Cue the music: Right Before My Eyes starts up with the scenes from those moments that marked the before and…
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Doomer’s Guide Pt 1: Cue The Music
Setting the Scene Cue the music: Right Before My Eyes by Cage the Elephant. Figures 1.1 through 1.whatever-the-fuck show the evolution from a bright-eyed bushy-tailed me at the beginning of 2020, freshly minted doctor of “wait, what is your degree…
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In Defense Of Democratic Art
Aesthetics & Worldviews Full disclosure: there’s a good chance I’ll end up talking about art and/or aesthetics quite a bit in this column, because it is something I like to talk about. So, in this lil what-have-you I’m just gonna…
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Keywords For The Apocalypse: Poco A Poco (Little By Little)
Little By Little: A Way of Being in the World Literally “little by little” – a simple enough saying, but like everything else…context, context, context. In my experience, this is one of the most Mexican sayings there is. And again,…
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Keywords For The Apocalypse: Some (Hopefully Coherent) Thoughts On Authenticity and Integrity
Authenticity & Integrity Okay, so these are two terms that I see thrown around a lot, and honestly the way they are usually used (and even a lot of their uncommon usages tbh) kinda suck donkey butt. And the reason…
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Why There Are No Doomers In Mexico
La Esperanza Mexicana First off, I haven’t done a freakin poll, the title is a rhetorical device to bring your attention to the fact that doomerism (or more accurately defeatism in general) just didn’t take root there like it did…
