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Meanings and Musings
Essays and poems that will challenge you. You might not always like what you read here, but your thoughts will always be provoked.
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The End of the World
The End of the World
Devan Charles Berkley
Jun 21, 2022
The Demand and the Band
The Demand and the Band
One day the Universe told I, (the I that is thee), to go forth, become and Be.
Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 20, 2022
The Terror and Liberation of Choice
The Terror and Liberation of Choice
Our age, in some ways, is defined by a buffet of choices. There is unparalleled external freedom in the choice of career, hobbies, and…
Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 20, 2022
Identity and the Other, a love story and a protracted suicide
Identity and the Other, a love story and a protracted suicide
Our modern age seems to be defined by division. In the political sphere, it is perhaps the most apparent. Politics has taken on a perverse…
Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 15, 2022
Hate is Drunkeness
Hate is the most potent form of drunkness known to humanity. Hate is a pleasurable loss of reason. A pleasure that often harms. It is a…
Devan Charles Berkley
Mar 2, 2022
The World is Fiction
Most of the modern world had to be invented. Cars, computers, phones, apartments, all of these things at some point existed as pure mental…
Devan Charles Berkley
Feb 10, 2022
Kettlebells and finding growth
I’ve come to be rather fond of kettlebells. I started working out with them about four years ago, and they’ve become one of the ways I find…
Devan Charles Berkley
Feb 3, 2022
Thinky Broody Beasts
Humans are wondrous creatures. We are one of the few species that can think about the past and future. We can imagine and dream and give…
Devan Charles Berkley
Jan 3, 2022
A subtle debt
Your phone demands what is owed.
Devan Charles Berkley
Dec 12, 2021
A Brief and Unconventional Love Letter to Humanity
In each human, there is both angel and demon. Murder, theft, rape, war, torture. All the instruments of the devil were birthed of man…
Devan Charles Berkley
Dec 6, 2021
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