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Cassie and Johnny
I’m the kind of dame you notice. I’m no femme fatale, but you can’t ignore me, at least not until I warn you about what’s coming, then everybody ignores me. Hell, they usually blame me afterwards and give Johnny all the credit for saving the day, but my Johnny couldn’t save a seat at the movies without my help. Sure, he’s brawny, but brainy? Not so much. Like that time I asked him to spot me five bucks, and he said he didn’t see it anywhere on me, and believe you me, he looked but good.
By Harper Lewis5 days ago in Critique
Diaries to Nietzsche
Quotation from Friedrich Nietzsche "He who wrestles long with monsters should beware lest he himself become a monster. And if you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you. Man is not destroyed by suffering, but by the meaning he makes of it."
By LUCCIAN LAYTH19 days ago in Critique
Who Is Clavicular? The Looksmaxxing Streamer Who Ran Over A Stalker In His Cybertruck
What is so damaging to this current culture is the ant-intellectualism which pervades nearly every element of it. Clavicular, real name, Braden Peters equivocates physical form with getting women, making money, and overall being a strong “man.”
By Skyler Saunders2 months ago in Critique
Scrooge has entered the building!
From the swirling depths of inner turmoil, I grace you with a moment of much-needed sarcasm... I was gifted/tempted with the task of sharing unbiased opinions for a torrent of uplifting pieces of written art that have found their way to my unapproving eyes.
By Lamar Wiggins3 months ago in Critique
Taking a Different Approach on Birthdays
Hello November! It's my birthday month, meaning that I'm a Scorpio, if you're into that sort of thing. One of the best traits about my zodiac sign is that I'm competitive and want to succeed in life. I love celebrating my birthday, which happens to be on November 13. In case you're curious how old I'll be. I'll be turning 38 years old. If you look at my profile picture on here, you must be thinking that I don't look my age and you're right. I've been mistaken for a high school student and a college student. I'm fine with that and looking youthful works to my advantage. You've heard the saying, "Black don't crack." It's another way of saying that black people don't show any signs of aging. As I near 40, I've since outgrown birthday parties. The last time I had a birthday party was at home after school and 14. Nearly 25 years later, someone throwing me a party, while the gesture is admirable and with good intent, I don't feel the need to dress up and attend my own party thrown by someone else. I turned 18 in 2005 and my friend at the time took me out to miniature golf, then had my birthday dinner at Olive Garden. Besides, who doesn't love their endless breadsticks? The staff surprised me with a chocolate cake. After that, my friend and I went to Best Buy, and I chose my first country CD. That album was Toby Keith's Honkytonk University. I couldn't wait to go home and listen to it. I wore that CD out on a daily basis, because no songs from that album were skippable. It was so good and had since fallen in love with country music. Unfortunately, I ended my friendship with my long-time friend and classmate in 2021 after nearly two decades, due to his anti-gay views. I came out to him in the summer of 2012, several months after I came out of the closet. We're no longer friends, but that was one of the best birthday memories I've ever had.
By Mark Wesley Pritchard 4 months ago in Critique
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"The Shell in the Ghost, I Am Major"
In 2017, Hollywood did something predictable and scandalous at the same time: it remade the Japanese cyberpunk classic Ghost in the Shell and placed a blonde American star at its centre. The actress was Scarlett Johansson. Critics argued about cultural appropriation, about empire, about whether the United States had once again absorbed a foreign myth and refashioned it in its own image. Yet beyond the controversy, the American Ghost in the Shell remains a philosophically provocative film. It forces a simple but radical question: what is a human being made of?
By Peter Ayolovabout 4 hours ago in Critique
The Theory of the New Leisure Class
The Theory of the New Leisure Class: Homo Essentialis Thorstein Veblen wrote The Theory of the Leisure Class in 1899 to describe a social order in which status was displayed through visible idleness and conspicuous consumption. More than a century later, idleness has disappeared as a badge of honour, yet Veblen’s central insight has only intensified. The ruling class of the twenty-first century does not sit idle; it performs busyness. It does not withdraw from work; it transforms work into theatre. What we are witnessing is not the disappearance of the leisure class but its mutation. This is Leisure Class 2.1. This is Homo Essentialis.
By Peter Ayolovabout 21 hours ago in Critique
Matter in Revolt
Matter in Revolt: How Diamat Becomes History (The Architecture of Chaos in the 21st Century) The twenty-first century does not suffer from chaos; it suffers from misunderstood structure. Climate breakdown, algorithmic governance, financial volatility, pandemics, digital feudalism—these are not isolated crises. They are converging contradictions. What appears fragmented is in fact systemic. What appears accidental is material. To read this moment properly, one requires a method that does not panic before complexity. That method is Diamat.
By Peter Ayolovabout 21 hours ago in Critique
Teyana Taylor Joins Elite List as Time Magazine Woman of the Year 2026
At the outset of Women’s History Month, Teyana Taylor is already in the winner’s circle. Fresh from a Golden Globe win for Best Supporting Actress in the film One Battle After Another, a GRAMMY® nomination, and an Academy Award nomination, she has been named one of TIME Magazine’s Women of the Year.
By Skyler Saunders2 days ago in Critique
Just Thinkering
Just Thinkering: Talking about Thinking Philosophy begins with a strange upgrade to ordinary speech. Instead of talking about things, people start talking about the talking itself, then about the thinking behind the talking, then about the words used to name the thinking. This second level of language feels noble, even heroic: reflection, critique, self-awareness, ‘the examined life’. But it also carries a quieter risk. Once speech turns back on itself, it can become a room full of mirrors. The sound continues, yet nothing moves forward. There is talk about words, talk about thinking, talk about talk, and soon the whole performance becomes a kind of verbal tinkling: elegant, repetitive, self-pleasing noise.
By Peter Ayolov4 days ago in Critique
The Beauty of the Word
The Beauty of the Word: When “Beautiful” Becomes Power We rarely say “ugly truth.” We prefer to say “beautiful.” The choice is not innocent. “Truth” sounds like information: a fact, a report, a statement to be verified or dismissed. “Beauty,” by contrast, is an experience. It is not merely known; it is felt. When we call something beautiful, we lift it from the level of data to the level of meaning. We grant it weight, dignity, even sacredness. The word itself performs an elevation.
By Peter Ayolov4 days ago in Critique
Celluloid Comrades
A review of: Nadège Ragaru (2023). ‘Millions for the Movies’ in Late Socialist Bulgaria: : The Political and Moral Economy of the Cinema Industry. Sociétés politiques comparées. Revue européenne d’analyse des sociétés politiques . [online] doi:https://doi.org/10.36253/spc-18718.
By Peter Ayolov4 days ago in Critique
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