&rew wixson

We Killed Boredom and Lobotomized Our Soul How eight billion people simultaneously chose digital sedation over the terrifying work of being conscious

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*titanic captain wandering through the ballroom thirty minutes before they hit the iceberg*

i was born & i was raised in the usa
and i done been round the world & back, what a day
so i done seen a lot of shit & i just want to say
that lucifer is here to stay, so bitch
u better pray

the galaxy brain move of buying a timed lockbox: weaponizing my lack of impulse control against itself while bargaining with unfeeling plastic because being too lazy to develop discipline AND too lazy to break into this thing somehow produces identical outcomes

my past self plants psychological landmines for my future self with the enthusiastic abandon of someone who believes time is a theoretical concept that happens to other people, and my present self is just constantly wading through the shrapnel

idk if it's just my face or generally permissive demeanor but 50 year old dudes that drive uber looove to tell me all about their bitch ex-wives. like who died and made me patron saint of divorce when all i wanted was a silent ride and/or the aux???

is the cure to male loneliness selling kilos

why. are. we. sending. all. our. dollars. to. donuts.

Leo's Roaring Echoes what the chicago pope could mean for the church and the world

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BLOOD AND CONCRETE ON THE HORRORS IN GAZA

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Fumata Blanca, Alma Roja A Protestant's Tribute to the Bus-Riding Pope

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nathan fielder’s experiment in disaster tourism The Rehearsal Returns

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henson’s law: every group of male friends contains exactly one who will involuntarily turn when you yell “waka waka” (that's when you deploy the net)

the guitar hero guitar as permanent decor is actually a sophisticated statement on the ephemeral nature of cultural relevance

the voices in my head just voted unanimously to approve an alliance with someone who speaks my native tongue of “vaguely gesturing at concepts”

not extinct purely to avoid eye contact with natural selection and inconvenience my opps

selective blindness isn't a moral failing, it's evolutionary survival. we all radically compartmentalize, building joy fortresses against existential dread so we can continue to try to make things better for others even when the collective doesn't return the favor

recently my friend’s newborn looked me dead in the eyes and I swear he was like “you're all just pretending everything's fine, aren’t you?” and I just handed him back like “sorry buddy, ignorance is the only bliss we've got left”

no more thoughts just rock

hitting my head repeatedly with a rock a really big rock biggest one i can find

bro her beauty is the secret code transmuting excel into a fractal dance of surreal pulsating numbers, shattering its rigid formulas

it’s not bipolar, it’s just being permanently set to “never enough”

economists chanting “the market isn't the economy” three times like a protective spell before the “holy shit” betrays the human behind the model. that brief moment of shared reality is worth more than any white paper

the distance between economic theory and “holy shit” is where 99% of us actually live our financial lives, making those ritual incantations before an inevitable “nevertheless” the most humanizing moment when economists briefly inhabit the same reality as the rest of us

the evolution of economic thought:
1. the stock market is not the economy (theoretical)
2. the stock market is not the economy (pedagogical)
3. the stock market is not the economy (increasingly desperate)
4. *logs into NYT 401k portal*
5. holy shit (empirical)

all other things being equal, is this a good thing or a bad thing