nihilism

Corona for nihilists

After we have felt, in our bodies, that we are still worthy even if we create nothing - how would we create? The corona crisis is a special time for nihilists. The clean separation of society in essential and non-essential activities signals that money is not the only dimension of meaning that informs our political ...

Today, I received a strange visitor called nihilism. His bleak appearance and slow, decisive gait exerted a strange fascination on me, so I decided to follow him on the street after he left. I followed nihilism into an alleyway, where a beautiful woman's face smiled at me with the promise of a thousand futures, but ...

Will you cup your hand…

Will you cup your hand around my warm balls? I suffered from mild nihilism, and the common flu So I waltz to the edge of music, where the falls endure. I have so many more unsayables for you.

Freelance bullshit jobs

I have been fascinated with anthropologist David Graeber's concept of bullshit jobs for a while. I have written a bullshit job poem and a bullshit job rap. In this video, Graeber mentions an informal poll he conducted on Twitter to classify bullshit jobs. He arrives at five categories: Flunkies.. the people sitting around doing nothing, ...

Mindfulness

"Mindfulness, the practice of sitting still and focusing on your breath and thoughts, has surged in popularity over the last few years, with a boom in apps, online courses, books and articles extolling its virtues." This is as close to the final stage of commodification as it gets. The "practice of sitting still" is now ...

June 30. Delving in old aphorisms.

"This is America, you are supposed to be in charge of your brain."-"What do you mean?""I mean guns are allowed in this country but drugs is not that's what I mean."-"I don't get it?""You are allowed to carry the means to hurt somebody, but you are not allowed to experiment with possible causes."-"So?""In the Netherlands ...