Category: Existential angst

John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 that people would eventually only need to work 15 hours a week. It is almost 100 years later and people are working more than ever and in many cases that is still not enough. The cost of living continues to rise as wage growth has heavily stagnated over the…

There is a line from Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek” that I think about really often. It goes: Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. Her musings surrounding this profound perspective deal with how we tender hearted human beings emerged from a series of biological systems that are more obsessed with…

I watch the TikTok from Liza Koshy that is saved as a highlight on my Instagram (called “2 b lite n +”) because I’m looking for some breadcrumbs I left for my depressed future-self. It was about 5 years ago during the pandemic that I made this collection and yet strangely I feel more unsafe…