Humans Love Humans (Immigrant’s Observations)
When I look around hoping to see freedom, I see survival and maybe content. It bothers me because it screams of emotional poverty. And I know it’s conditioned because everybody is born with bright eyes.
Observer Effect: Don’t Even Think of Quantifying Me (A**hole)
The 21st century America is a very strange place. Beautiful, bountiful, but strange. It tells me, “I want your music in my catalogue as long as you agree that it’s not special, and I want your booty in my catalogue as if it’s not special, either”. It wants me to line up and lick the conveyor. It wants me to play ordinary. It wants me to march with the crowd and participate in the global sexual act that has been stripped of all magic. The underlying emotion is of disrespect.
What do I say? First, I have no words. Then I cry. I don’t like any of it. It’s counter-everything. It defeats my humanity, my dignity, and my sense of self. It’s a man (and woman) eating machine (I stole it from Grace Jones).
Rat Race Is Sacred
In the Russian culture, there is a certain resentment of anybody who sticks out. In the classic American culture, there is a certain resentment of anybody who is relaxed. Twins!
Accepted Insanity of Political Debate
Can we just honestly admit that we don’t know f*ck?
The Left, the Right, and Other Divisive Nonsense
The perceived abyss between the left and the right – the abyss that is largely forced upon us as a way to let us feel like we stand for something by virtue of siding with one or another – is extremely amusing to me. Amusing, annoying, sad and lovable because we are...
Ed Sheeran Says Spotify is Awesome; I Disagree
Full disclosure: I wrote this because I care. I am not an industry analyst and I am not trying to be one. But I have a brain, and I hate bullshit. Without further ado…
In a highly publicized BBC interview, British musician Ed Sheeran says that he “owes career to Spotify”. According to Sheeran, the 860 million streams he received on Spotify allowed him to play big shows in the US and sell out arenas in Korea and South-East Asia.
Something about it just didn’t feel right. Smelling a rat, I googled the guy.
I Don’t Like It When You Ask Me to Put My Hands Up in the Air
So I stand there and feel like I want to go back to my planet.
It’s Not #Metoo, It’s the Algorithm! Plus, a Giant Non-Robotic Feminist Tangent
Genuine respect for women will only come from healing; without healing, we are reduced to algorithms. Sadly, algorithmic solutions tend to hurt innocent people and are too easy to hijack.
How We Became Rapists: A Mystery
I love you, my boy, and I will pray very hard for you to find your way and learn patience in the kindest way. Let the heat of my tears awaken your memory. You are still free, my boy…
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