The Memeing of Life

Only Disconnect

Thirty years of the internet and it turns out that other people actually are hell.

15 August, 2020/by marius

It’s Time to Talk about Stupid

The way you think about stupid actually underpins your entire worldview.

15 July, 2020/by marius

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