Category: Life & Human Nature
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The Unassailable Truth: If It Sounds Right, Who Cares If It Is?
Welcome, dear reader, to the golden age of vibes-based reasoning, where facts are merely decorative and the real currency is how right something sounds. Don’t have proof? No problem! Does the percentage you just pulled out of thin air feel correct? Does the story you’re spinning align with what people already want to believe? Congratulations—you’ve…
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The Cycles of Speculation — A Modern Reflection on a Forgotten Manual of Market Psychology
When Thomas Gibson wrote The Cycles of Speculation in 1907, he was not merely describing financial markets — he was dissecting human nature. The book’s enduring relevance lies not in its outdated examples of railroad shares and gold-backed currency, but in its timeless anatomy of greed, fear, and the illusion of control that drives every…
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Why Bother Learning When You Can Just Google It?
Ah, education—that thing we all suffered through for 12+ years just to immediately forget 90% of it the second we got our hands on a diploma. Remember algebra? Of course you don’t. Remember the causes of the French Revolution? Nope, but hey, at least you can drunkenly argue about politics on Facebook without any of…
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I Am Not Prolific. I Am Inconsistent.
One of the most common questions I get is some variation of:How do you write so much? It’s a fair question. By the numbers, it looks a little absurd. Over the past 261 days, I’ve published 759 posts. Do the math and you land just shy of three posts per day. To an outside observer,…
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The Lint Trap Is a Ledger
What Dryer Lint Reveals About Wear, Convenience, and the Hidden Costs of Modern Life Every time you clean the lint trap, you are holding a receipt. Not a metaphorical one. A literal one. That soft gray felt clinging to the mesh is not dust. It is not debris. It is not something that mysteriously appeared.…
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The West Virginia Institute for the Criminally Diseased
When Responsibility Becomes a Diagnosis and Crime Becomes a Condition West Virginia has long been a place where consequences were not theoretical. Mines collapsed. Mills closed. Paychecks stopped. When something went wrong, there was no committee to convene and no glossary to soften the blow. You either fixed the problem, endured it, or left. Which…
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“Your 50s Are Collecting Receipts—And Your 70s Will Cash Them In”
Let’s get one thing straight: your golden years aren’t a surprise party. They’re a meticulously itemized invoice for every bad decision you made before your AARP card arrived. Think you can smoke, drink, and couch-surf your way through middle age and then suddenly morph into a spry, clear-minded elder? Oh, honey. Your body doesn’t forget.…
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Spinach, Cavities, and the Limits of Love
There is a quiet category error we keep making when it comes to emotional pain. It’s well-intentioned, even compassionate—but it’s wrong in a way that does real harm. We’ve decided that because suffering is human, all suffering should be handled socially. That if you’re struggling, the right answer is to “talk to someone.”And if you…
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Post-Truth as Planted Evidence
One of the persistent misunderstandings in contemporary political analysis is the belief that post-truth movements are driven primarily by ignorance, misinformation, or cognitive failure. This framing is comforting because it implies a solvable problem: correct the record, educate the public, improve media literacy, and truth will reassert itself. But this diagnosis is increasingly inadequate. What…
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Breaking News: Your Personality Is Just 5 Thoughts in a Trench Coat
Hey there, “well-rounded individual”—you think you’re a kaleidoscope of passions, but let’s be real: your brain runs on the same five mental apps, all of which are basically just different skins for anxiety. Ever paused between pretending to read an article (you skimmed the headline of) to audit what actually occupies your mental RAM? Spoiler:…
