Lovers, Missionaries and Technology: A Story of a Passionate Little Boy

Listen, baby. I’ve built a castle for you. I want you to love my castle, and I want you to love me for building it.

I am an Outsider: A Story of Freedom

In a world driven by financial self-preservation, truth-telling is a commercial affair. Truth, the edited version, hello.

Civilization at a Crossroads: Feelings, Words, and a Power Grab

Our masters don’t mind our fighting with each other for the leftovers from their table.

The Speedup

Imagine trying to get happy on a tight deadline. Like you have ten minutes to get happy, or else your boss is going to punish you.

I Wanted to Talk About Dating R Kelly But Ended Up Talking about Russian Culture Instead

This story is about the Russian women and our cross-generational strengths, weaknesses, courage, and servitude.

Too Many Names to Remember: Are We 7 Billion Anonymous Observers?

I can watch a video with 55 million views, cry over it, feel the feeling—and never know who made it, or who was in it.

Bellydancer

Bellydancer

Bestowing five one-dollar bills on her naked skin with royal confidence known only to testosterone that is completely unaware of own irrelevance.

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Don’t Be Selling Me Social Darwinism, I am Not Buying

Don’t Be Selling Me Social Darwinism, I am Not Buying

The popular statement about economic injustice being a case of scientifically justified social Darwinism, as inevitable as gravity, is nonsense. Treating other humans (or nature, or anything) without respect is a choice. It is not a case of gravity. It is a case of successful bullying on a mass scale.

Let’s say, you are a super duper powerful milti-dulti-billionaire. If you have an opportunity to build a massive chemical plant that will likely make you 40 billion dollars in 5 years, but you also know that if you choose to build it, it will somehow make it very probable that you will lose your limb, and that your wife will get cancer and die, you will most likely spend a minute thinking about your priorities before making up your mind.

And you might even choose to keep your your wife vs. a potential 40 billion dollar profit!

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Chosen: Taking Music Listening to a New Level of Stupid

Chosen: Taking Music Listening to a New Level of Stupid

Does everything have to be about the finance game? Everything-everything? Even love and magical things?

Music is otherworldly. It can soothe, and bring out the pain and then heal it, it can inspire one through a difficult task. But when people of a certain psychological type get a hold of it, all they know to do is how to use it to play finance games.

This morning’s press-release, masked as a cheery Medium article, starts with nonsense about “our genetic fabric”, and then it goes into the dark web of meaningless macaroni. And it goes on, and on, and on…

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“Past” And “Future” of the Music Industry

“Past” And “Future” of the Music Industry

If I hear another mid-level marketing professional claim expertise in “the future of the music industry”, I am going to have a fit.

Then again, if I were selling colored pasta, I would definitely go to every conference and talk about how colored pasta is the future.

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Misf*cked

Misf*cked

How bizarre. You are…you were just one of those people I misf*cked.

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Pain Excites You More Than I Do

Pain Excites You More Than I Do

So, once again I independently decide that you don't love me. You deny it, you say it's not it. I have a hard time buying it because I know how people act when they are in love. They can't bear long separation, they can't help responding to texts, it's the Force that...

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