Both Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias and Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations are great examples of complementary literature that spans a time frame of 1650 years of stoic thought. To read from the translated words of Aurelius and apply them as context to which Ozymandias is written about personifies the sonnet in a way that Aurelius expressed very […]
Year: 2025
Middle Class
The ongoing erosion of the human middle class which incorporates an emphatic, often romantic, entrainment of of the living and intelligent formations of nature into the foundational identity of these same folks has fostered meritocratic (plutocratic) social dynamics which don’t always align with this digital millennium. This misalignment is evidenced by a high retention of […]
These American Cities
What is going on, in these American cities? The wind picks up and they burn, then the news reports losses surpassing hundreds of billions of dollars and even worse is the loss in life. It’s clear that these cities are not experiencing Natural Disasters. Nations that claim to be able to destroy the world are […]
Taste and Smell
All too often, folks use descriptions that refer to human senses through elevated language to start conversations about things that have nothing to do with senses. This can be on referring to a genre as having a flavor or insinuating that one may have a taste for an author or media outlets variety. The practice […]
On Meekness
One thing that stands out to me about essay writing as an exercise in ones freedom of speech is that the request to write such, without a narrowing of the scope, surreptitiously clashes with learning how to effectively “fit a bit of oneself into a pre-determined mold” for a little bit of time. I’ve spent […]