Kiall Hildred·7 hours agoMember-onlyThat’s Not Capitalism, Part SixPreferences and Poverty — Part One: Capitalism and Captivation Part Two: Money and Markets Part Three: Monopoly and Malice Part Four: Accumulation and Abuse Part Five: Acceleration and Alienation Part Six: Preferences and Poverty That’s Not Capitalism; or, Something of a Defence I had said this whole series of essays wasn’t meant as a defence of capitalism, and in truth it’s not…Essay10 min readEssay10 min read
Harsh Bhikadia·12 hours agoWhat is a personal website?I just changed my personal website. Which earlier was hosted with Github Pages and now it just redirects to the Medium profile page. That made me ponder — What is a personal website? What is it suppose to do? What should be in it? A trip down memory lane The earlier site I mentioned was…Essay3 min readEssay3 min read
Ravyne HawkeinPromptly Written·1 day agoMember-onlyThirteen Was Magical For MeBirthday Celebration Challenge — Question 3 — I’ve tried to understand why people get freaked out by the number thirteen, but for me, it holds a special significance. Why? Because the summer I turned thirteen was a magical affair. Or so it seemed to this melancholic newly-minted teen. Per usual, I had been staying with Grams on…Essay4 min readEssay4 min read
Ravyne HawkeinA Delicious Torment·1 day agoMember-onlyNot Coping WellStress is killing me — I missed my therapist appointment on Wednesday. I didn’t even realize I missed it until late Thursday afternoon. Why? Stress. This entire week has flown by so fast that I haven’t even been keeping up with what day it is. It has been one huge blur. Each day has meshed…Essay3 min readEssay3 min read
reviewsium·5 hours agobookreview: Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion“See enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some morning when the world seems drained of wonder, some day when I am only going through the motions of doing what I am supposed to do… on that bankrupt morning I will simply open my notebook and there…Essays2 min readEssays2 min read
luca·5 hours agoon innatismHaving concluded our exploration of perception as a source of knowledge (https://medium.com/@lucazani/on-idealism-f3ea87430a18), we will begin with examining reason as a source of knowledge, first by evaluating innatism as a theory of knowledge, before moving on to Descartes’ rational intuition and deduction thesis. So what is innatism? Innatism claims that we…Essay14 min readEssay14 min read
Bonnie L. BoucekinPromptly Written·1 day agoMember-onlyDeep Diving into My Inner PsycheI like who I am. Why change? — Every now and then, I will publish an article titled “Deep Dive into…” to focus on a topic and give those who would like to write a platform to share their thoughts, ideas, and heartbeats with others. Subhi Najar …Essay8 min readEssay8 min read
Rajnarayan Choudhury·1 hour agoOn the Fallacy in BeliefThe “Sine Qua Non” for questions of creed. — Introductory Prescript: In philosophy, “Belief” is a subjective mental stance in favour of a certain proposition, or a conviction towards a state of affairs being the case. While this blog does not strictly concern itself with theological belief; and is certainly not a commentary on any organised structure of such nature; it…Essay8 min readEssay8 min read
Yang Tee·1 day ago【Essay 6】 Money is all crazy evilHow can we acquire money? Waiting for an opportunity? I am of Chinese descent, but not a Chinese citizen. The ancestors of my nation invented many gambling games, such as mahjong, Pai Gow, Fan Tan and various types of poker games. Chinese people have love money, which is why we…Essay4 min readEssay4 min read
