For a time, I was living under the impression that in the Nine Inch Nails’ album Broken there is a song where Trent Reznor sings: “Happiness is slavery”. Right until the point when I went to look for an accurate transcript of the lyrics when I found out it is actually “Happiness in slavery”. This…
Category: Fun Theories
Masculinity
What is it to be a man? I have come to believe that the cornerstone of being a man is the ability to suppress. Suppressing emotions, well captured in the old saying “men don’t cry”, is hardly news to anyone. The suppression I have in mind is more significant than that.
3 – OD’ing on soma
In the Aldous Huxley’s novel Brave new World, there is a drug, called soma, that does precisely that what is in my opinion impossible. It silences the bad within and gives way only to the good seemingly without any hangover or withdrawal effect.
Life is a game
What used to mean to me just a thing that gamblers say, has become something more in my recent thinking. It is a simple idea that everyone is just a character in a game. An interesting paradox that I see in that would be…