for thinking people
May 1, 2018
The very first article of this blog talked about writing. In particular, it talked about the deterioration of writing skills as a result of humanity being preoccupied with superficial things. Of course, this has been a theme echoing through future articles as well. To name just a couple, remember my article on mediocrity and the one on having too few readers and too many (mediocre) writers.
April 24, 2018
Just like success, the nature of ambition is misunderstood. In our material world, it mostly has to do with money and material possessions. Most people would define ambition as the drive to be successful. And in this limiting outlook, this invariably connotes material wealth. In other words, most people would understand ambition as the desire to get rich (or die tryin’). My reference to these… “lyrics” is not accidental, as we shall see in a while.
April 21, 2018
I wrote the following short story in the span of two hours, one autumn afternoon. It was inspired by some news I’d received that had affected me. As I’ve said in the past, the birth of a text comes not from wanting to write, but from needing to write. Needless to say, the story is highly symbolic – hey, Kafka has been one of my influences, what do you expect?
