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The Soul in Collapse

Human civilization has always been a kind of tension, akin to the taut string of a lyre, stretched between two essential notes, that being the individual and the collective, the singular voice and…

By B August 14, 2025Entangled Thoughts, Payne Culture

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Rewriting Identity Amidst Racialized Being

In the quiet hush between the weight of centuries and the ephemeral breath of the present, a delicate stillness spreads, like twilight gathering at the edge of memory. It is…

By B August 14, 2025Philosophy, Thoughts and Opinions

Thoughts and Opinions

Inherent Meaning of Mortality

There is a hush that settles when time speaks louder than ambition—a silence not of stillness, but of accumulation. In this silence resides the aging population, not as anomaly but…

By B July 23, 2025Thoughts and Opinions

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Chasing Purple Giraffes: Reimagining Drug Policy Beyond Punishment

Drug decriminalization, particularly regarding the possession of controlled substances for personal use, occupies a complex and contentious space in public discourse. Unlike valence issues that attract broad consensus, drug decriminalization…

By B July 19, 2025Blog Posts, Thoughts and Opinions

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An Individual Take on Everything and Nothing

Synopsis and Observations Jorge Luis Borges’ Everything and Nothing is a prose-poem folded like origami into the silence between history and myth. At once sparse and sacred, the piece resists conventional narrative…

By B July 14, 2025Philosophy, Short Stories, Thoughts and Opinions

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The Children We Cast Out

There is a particular kind of silence that forms after violence, a societal hush masquerading as resolve. In the 1990s, this silence gave birth to a policy: zero tolerance. It…

By B June 16, 2025Thoughts and Opinions