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    The Resignation: Thoughts on Shared Psychosis and Liberation

    The Resignation: Thoughts on Shared Psychosis and Liberation

    Resignation happens when we submit to a new authority but suppress the symbol of that submission, claiming to be liberated.
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    Brenden
    Jan 20
    Hollow Rebellion: How Performative Politics and Identity Fetishes Empower the New Right

    Hollow Rebellion: How Performative Politics and Identity Fetishes E...

    I.
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    Brenden
    Jul 25, 2024
    Law Roach: Narcissism, Identity, Romantic Love, and Desire

    Law Roach: Narcissism, Identity, Romantic Love, and Desire

    are you looking for a man in finance?
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    Brenden
    Jun 14, 2024
    Digital Mirrors: Narcissism and Identity

    Digital Mirrors: Narcissism and Identity

    How apology videos break our digital illusions and identity (A deeper dive on the Law Roach clip will be in part II)
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    Brenden
    Jun 10, 2024
    The Priest vs The Wise Guy

    The Priest vs The Wise Guy

    this essay is anxiety and rage
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    Brenden
    May 9, 2024
    Breaking Down the Alt-right: How Outspoken Extremes Shape Our Culture

    Breaking Down the Alt-right: How Outspoken Extremes Shape Our Culture

    some thoughts
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    Brenden
    Apr 22, 2024
    JoJo Siwa: Bedazzled Identities and Manufactured Narcissism

    JoJo Siwa: Bedazzled Identities and Manufactured Narcissism

    Trapped in the delusion loop of the celebrity machine
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    Brenden
    Apr 16, 2024
    The Rebel’s Illusion: Nostalgia and Necromancy

    The Rebel’s Illusion: Nostalgia and Necromancy

    Tradition, Revolution, and the Guillotine | Becoming Subjects
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    Brenden
    Apr 7, 2024
    “Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control”

    “Andrew Huberman’s Mechanisms of Control”

    The Self-Optimized Narcissist in All of Us
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    Brenden
    Apr 2, 2024
    The Suffocating Door: Narratives, Relationships, Desire, and Identity

    The Suffocating Door: Narratives, Relationships, Desire, and Identity

    Jouissance and Sublimation with ‘A’
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    Brenden
    Mar 24, 2024
    The Sam Harris puppet show: unraveling the paradox of free will in a deterministic universe

    The Sam Harris puppet show: unraveling the paradox of free will in ...

    Sam Harris recently had a clip of him discussing free will and consciousness going around Twitter. I wanted to comment on some of those…
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    Brenden
    Mar 20, 2024
    The elephants and a serpent

    The elephants and a serpent

    a potential foreclosure in the unconscious
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    Brenden
    Mar 18, 2024
    The Young Pope: a conversation on faith, doubt, and divine irony

    The Young Pope: a conversation on faith, doubt, and divine irony

    a fictional dialogue with Jude Law’s character Lenny from HBO’s The Young Pope
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    Brenden
    Feb 23, 2024
    The psychology of serial killers: insights from Mindhunter

    The psychology of serial killers: insights from Mindhunter

    exploring the relationship between identity and desire | John Douglas
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    Brenden
    Feb 13, 2024
    Alienation in the binary of lost men

    Alienation in the binary of lost men

    ideology, gender, and identity
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    Brenden
    Feb 4, 2024
    A labyrinth of desire

    A labyrinth of desire

    Part one (probably)
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    Brenden
    Jan 24, 2024
    Unveiling the Mask: A Lacanian Exploration of Incel Ideology and the ‘Manosphere’

    Unveiling the Mask: A Lacanian Exploration of Incel Ideology and th...

    with Slavoj Zizek, Tim Pool, and ‘Fresh&Fit’
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    Brenden
    Jan 19, 2024
    Deconstructing Bronze Age Pervert

    Deconstructing Bronze Age Pervert

    a draft
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    Brenden
    Jan 18, 2024
    Navigating the quagmire of cancel culture and consumerism

    Navigating the quagmire of cancel culture and consumerism

    Do not participate in promoting complacency.
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    Brenden
    Jan 17, 2024
    The modern magician: tech titans and internet influencers

    The modern magician: tech titans and internet influencers

    What better way to maintain the validity of your simulated world than to draw people into the hyperreality that you perceive?
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    Brenden
    Jan 16, 2024
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