Essays and Thoughts
"Mom, can you not care about me so much! Just leave me alone!" The above line has been a recurring theme in my teenage years, with an almost-always too-concerned mother (a rather fortunate thing, though I am focusing here on the torturous aspects). What troubled me was the fact that she could not stop caring … Continue reading Care. Concern. Love.
Guilt, I think, is one of the transcendentals of life, what Karl Jaspers calls the Ultimate Situation—what is inescapably thrown with oneself into existence (if I sound too pessimistic, here I write with the irredeemable guilt of spending the last 23 minutes of my life on YouTube watching god-knows-what). It rises out of a natural … Continue reading Guilt
It has been a tradition of our school to have a House Song competition this year, and my House (whom I'm the head of) chose Let It Go. Thus, I've been thinking about the song a lot recently. I thoroughly enjoy the music, but its intellectual fertility, I'm afraid, is appalling. Particularly, it expresses a … Continue reading Ideological Critique of “Let It Go”
—This was written before sleep. Hence the melodrama, and the sense of (false?) pathos in the words. It's originally advice for my good friend Josh who has, recently, fallen prey to Football Manager 2021. I extended it but tried to keep the style consistent. Do not fall into the hell of Football Manager. For hell … Continue reading Josh, Stop Playing Football Manager
A short meditation on Home. Heidegger said that we are Dasein, being-there. As such, we live in a place, (in distinction to a mere environment) and thus, a home. This is determined already by us as zoon echon logon—the language-speaking animal. For it is a miraculous fact of symbols that it can point to itself … Continue reading Home
David Foster Wallace is the writer of tedium. And this is why, perhaps, he has struck a chord in the modern imagination, gathering such a large cult following (one of whom is yours truly). He sees people engaging in diversions—through drugs, TV, unlimited consumption—and sees again the same people taking an ironic stance towards everything, … Continue reading Tedium & David Foster Wallace
You know how much I love Hannah Arendt. Here is the last major work of hers that I haven't read. Below is a summary of the insights I've gained. Revolution is about freedom. Not freedom of locomotion or free will, but freedom to act and speak in public in ways that matter. The public, political … Continue reading On Revoluion, Summary
It is a truism that we don’t know what we want. But this truism becomes interesting when we give it a little spin and change it to “we don’t want to get what we want.” At the center of desire is a void, an uncontrollable death drive, a hysteric storm of silence. When we stand … Continue reading Lacan & College Decision Reaction Videos
Warren's Brain Dumps 