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Good Grief

A scrap of paper is unfolded and someone else’s words, tumble out; because no words you find yourself will ever encapsulate the love, the person, the life that’s gone.
15 June, 2020/by marius

Love in a Time of Coronavirus

For now, when a kiss can be deadly, love in the time of coronavirus is from afar.
3 April, 2020/by marius

Apocalypse Now

So even if we might think of ourselves as well beyond scripture, it’s hard to witness the earth shrugging like this without a sense of dread.
7 March, 2020/by marius

When will the Woke Wake?

It has become the beloved new adjective used by anybody erring to the Right, to mock anyone Left, vegan, PC, environmentally conscious, LGBTQ+ sympathetic, etc.
19 February, 2020/by marius

Distraction

The superpower of the 21st century will not be ‘grit’ or ‘determination’ or ‘passion’ but ‘indistractable’.
5 November, 2019/by marius

Masslighting

We are all being masslit. And the extent of our craziness is that we’re half aware of this happening, that we’re being played.
5 October, 2019/by marius

Cash from Chaos

As long as you’ve got capital, which most of us don’t, and the empathy of a psychopath, ditto, you, and your opportunities are golden.
5 September, 2019/by marius

Virtue Signalling

“Virtue signalling” says so much more about the phrase's user than its target.
5 July, 2019/by marius

Work – and why you have to hate it.

Capitalism isn't working... it's getting other people to do it for you.
5 June, 2019/by marius

Shpilkes

You don’t go through a couple of millennia of wandering and persecution without evolving a sixth sense for trouble. The Yiddish word for it is shpilkes (needles), “a state of impatience, agitation, anxiety, or any combination thereof.”
5 May, 2019/by marius

Past Imperfect, Future Tense

Metameleiaphobia. The fear of regret. It doesn’t just drive the mid-life crisis, it misinforms some really appalling decision making.
5 April, 2019/by marius

Can’t you take a joke? Jeez.

Irony is a truth found in the least expected place.
4 March, 2019/by marius
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