Rites Of Passage

On Leaving, Liminality, and Incorporation — And The Nature of Modern Rites — Our world is filled with various rites of passage that speak to the universal human desire for transcendence — the desire to be someone who we are currently not, someone beyond our current state of life. Some of these rites we choose to undertake voluntarily, like when a child leaves…

Unripe cherries and low-hanging fruit It scared and thrilled me how easily into the night I could go, just by swinging my breakable body across the window frame of the room that held my childhood. It was painted a brittle blue, like sky in the clear light of day. Not…

I didn’t have a plan for my life, and it worked for me. — The race was on. It seemed like from the moment I entered high school, there was a mad rush to figure out what I was supposed to do with my life. What college I was going to? What job I was going to have? The truth was, I didn’t know…

Happy New Year. Now What? May the old world fall apart, and a bigger world be revealed. Well, here we are, that time of year where many of us to start thinking about our resolutions, goals, and intentions for the year ahead. When discussing the new year and its implications…

#andrewtate’s main audience are 16 years old virgin males. Andrew’s advice to our youth strikes their exact chords: how to get women and power. These 2 goals are mostly created by society and our own human biology. Most “teachers” are boring and not role models for any ambitious kids. …