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a child is locked in a room. they grow up going mad with the scream of their own inner voice. the footsteps of their mother are sometimes near, sometimes distant. but the door is always closed. ...

what we will discuss in this chapter is not whether there is a moral justification for killing a ceo.that is a question already answered, already forgotten, already stale.instead, what we must discus...

monsters are our secret weapons, our way to prod the edges of the known. but they’re also our downfall. we love them so much we might smother them with labels, trying to tame what thrives on being wi...

it's nothing new for a radical atheist to read jesus and draw revolutionary conclusions from christian history. but there’s still so much we can extract from the figure of jesus—so many insights wait...

what if your life’s every twist—every win, every loss—was just a ticket in a grand lottery? explore how chance and fairness collide in 2025, from ancient fate to modern control. dare to question: is ...

the world isn't flat—it's uneven, semi-globalized. differences in culture, laws, geography, and economy aren't hurdles; they're strategic levers. winning globally means mastering the balance: adapt t...

<br><em>what if nothing is sacred—not gods, not love, not ideology—but only our fear of the void? this piece dives into how everything we worship might just be a desperate attempt to fill the silence of nothingness. not a rejection of meaning, but a raw meditation on where we beg it to exist.</em>

the gaze isn’t about what you look at—it’s about what looks back and makes you feel exposed. desire starts where clarity ends. you think you’re seeing, but really you’re just chasing the gap between ...

imagine living next to a superpower that sees your sovereignty as optional. canada’s struggle isn’t just economic—it’s existential. when over 70% of your exports go south and your screens are filled ...

hobbesian anxiety isn’t about monsters under the bed—it’s about the creeping dread that the systems we rely on are unknowable and indifferent. in a world where algorithms dictate our choices and ai o...

ever wonder why we crave horror? it's not just about the scares. it's the adrenaline rush, the safe confrontation with fear, and the thrill of surviving the unknown. horror movies let us explore our d...

fear isn’t just a feeling—it’s a full-body symphony led by the amygdala. from the thalamus’s quick alerts to the cortex’s detailed analysis, your brain orchestrates a rapid response to danger. but so...

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autocrats don’t just fall—they unravel. they co-opt, repress, and adapt, but paranoia is their constant companion. when loyalty cracks or the illusion fades, even the strongest grip slips. power buil...

in a culture obsessed with hustle, where productivity apps ping relentlessly and social media scrolls beckon like sirens, haemin sunim’s the things you can see only when you slow down arrives as a qui...

imagine choosing a marriage without sex—not for lack of desire, but as a radical act of faith. in medieval times, chaste unions weren't just about purity; they challenged societal norms, placing spir...

ever feel like you're passionately defending a moral stance, fully aware it's shaped by your unique experiences and culture? that's the human paradox—chasing universal truths while knowing our compas...

what if you were offered the chance to relive your life—every joy, mistake, and mundane moment—exactly as it happened, with no changes? would you accept the eternal rerun, or choose oblivion over rep...

ideology isn't just a set of beliefs—it's the lens shaping our reality. even when we see through the illusions, we often continue playing the game, aware yet complicit. it's not about ignorance; it's...

love in the age of big data is both a rebellion and a commodity. we swipe, match, and chat in algorithm-driven spaces, seeking connections that defy prediction. amidst the code and metrics, genuine i...

what if the story of civilization we've been told is just that—a story? graeber and wengrow argue that early humans weren't bound by a linear path from chaos to order. instead, they experimented with...

what if the state isn't the pinnacle of human progress, but just one of many social experiments? from egalitarian mega-sites in ukraine to the leaderless metropolis of teotihuacan, history shows that...

we keep trying to define life like it's a static concept, but what if it's more like jazz—improvised, evolving, and defying neat categories? maybe instead of pinning it down, we should embrace th...

by 2035, reality might be optional. surveillance watches every move, deepfakes blur truth, and ai curates our thoughts. in this digital maze, autonomy fades, and misinformation thrives. the future is...

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forgiveness isn’t a fucking hallmark card. it’s not some pristine gift you hand over to someone who’s groveled enough, nor is it a saintly act of letting go that makes you feel superior while the othe...

your body’s a traitor. it’s chattering away nonstop—gurgling guts, pounding heart, that twitch in your eyelid you pretend isn’t there—but nobody, not even you, knows what the hell it’s saying. we’ve b...

it's the same issue again, and we keep circling back to it: capitalism. but there's no need to obsess over originality—it's still one of the biggest problems we haven't figured out. capitalism’s ultim...

imagine this: the people you’d take a bullet for are the ones loading the gun. friendship, that sacred cow of human connection, isn’t the warm, fuzzy safety net we’ve been sold—it’s a battleground whe...

the idea that space belongs to everyone is a lie we’ve been spoon-fed since the cold war turned the moon into a propaganda pinata. it’s not a cosmic commune up there, nor is it some pristine sanctuary...

let’s kick this off with a gut punch: the idea that billionaires tossing cash at society’s problems is some noble act of salvation is bullshit. it’s not about fixing the world—it’s about remaking it i...

let’s start with a gut punch: the world doesn’t give a fuck about your peace. it’s not designed to. we’re told boredom is the enemy—some slimy, lazy void we must escape with endless scrolling, side hu...

what if i told you equality is a lie we tell ourselves to sleep better at night? not the shiny, utopian kind peddled in corporate diversity ads or progressive manifestos, but the gritty, uneven realit...

here’s a paradox to choke on: love, that gooey, transcendent thing we’ve been sold as the ultimate human experience, isn’t the problem—it’s the machinery grinding behind it that’s fucking us up. we’ve...

capitalism doesn’t die quietly. it doesn’t collapse in a single, dramatic thud, like a tree felled in a storm. no, it mutates, sheds its skin, and emerges in a new form—sometimes uglier, sometimes shi...

imagine a world where religion isn’t just grand temples and city-wide festivals, but also quiet moments of individual reflection, quirky rituals at home, and whispered prayers that don’t quite fit the...

what if the internet, that sprawling digital playground we’ve all come to treat as a birthright, isn’t the great equalizer we’ve been sold? what if, instead of liberating us, it’s quietly strangling t...

let’s start with a gut punch: calling donald trump a fascist might be the laziest intellectual move of the 21st century. it’s the kind of label that feels good—like slapping “low battery” on your smok...

china’s rise is the definitive political and economic conundrum of the 21st century. it is, at once, the most spectacular testament to the power of a revolutionary movement and the most damning indict...

there’s a scene in dostoevsky’s the possessed where one character, confronted with his own complicity in a violent act, wonders whether a crime is truly a crime if everyone agrees to look the other wa...

the paradox of war: why do we keep choosing destruction? war is stupid. this is not a moral argument. it is a statement of fact, derived from the long arc of history. we know this, yet we contin...

the illusion of inevitability globalization has a peculiar habit of masquerading as a natural force—an unstoppable tide, a planetary alignment, a cosmic fate. but let’s be clear: the so-called inev...

culture is a peculiar entity—simultaneously omnipresent and elusive, invoked to justify, to sanctify, to condemn. it is, at once, the foundation of identity and the scapegoat of decline. we rely on it...

the empire that pretends it isn’t there are empires that rule with grandeur and open spectacle, their power etched in monuments, their cruelty worn like an iron crown. and then there are empires th...

ethics, we are told, is the last refuge of a world spinning into chaos. when law fails, when institutions crumble, when power ceases to justify itself, ethics arrives as a corrective. corporations adv...

We live in a world that moves at breakneck speed. Technology advances faster than we can keep up with, economies optimize for efficiency but deepen inequality, and politics operates in a constant stat...

conquest is supposed to be a momentary affair, a violent disruption after which governance restores order. yet, in the long arc of history, conquest has rarely ended with the signing of treaties or th...

modernity has gifted us many illusions, but perhaps none as persistent as the belief that ideas govern the world. the intellectual classes have long been enamored with the notion that thought—pure, un...

religion is often spoken of in hushed tones, as if it were some timeless, immovable force that simply exists. but let’s be honest—religion has never been neutral. it has never been outside the push an...

let’s begin with a simple question: what is an empire if not an elaborate apparatus for making people visible in ways that render them controllable? the x-ray—a technology celebrated for its ability t...

suicide, we are told, is a deeply personal act. it is a manifestation of inner torment, a tragic endpoint of psychological distress, a crisis of the individual. yet this narrative—dominant, soothing i...

science has always been obsessed with laws. newtonian physics, maxwell’s equations, even einstein’s elegant formulations—all these give us the illusion that the universe operates according to fixed, i...

there is something oddly comforting about the idea of human altruism. that we, as social creatures, are hardwired to be good, to help, to sacrifice. it is a narrative so deeply embedded in our moral f...

we often assume that maps simply depict reality, that they are neutral tools of navigation, guiding us across landscapes with the precision of scientific measurement. but this assumption—seemingly obv...

for decades, the narrative of reproductive control has been deceptively simple: women bear the biological burden, and thus, they must bear the pharmaceutical one too. the introduction of the birth con...

the grand deception of intimacy love is a lie we tell ourselves, a grand delusion carefully curated by culture, psychology, and biology. we worship it in poetry, chase it in films, and suffer throu...

there is an undeniable paradox at the heart of modern medical discourse: while societies tirelessly regulate which substances enter the body, they seem far less concerned with the deeper question of w...

what if tolerance is not the antidote to violence, but its ideological accomplice? what if, under the guise of ‘acceptance,’ tolerance actually reinforces the very divisions it claims to dissolve? in ...

one is tempted to ask: is not the very insistence on female orgasm as a physiological inevitability itself a kind of ideological fantasy—one that sutures together the fragile legitimacy of both scient...

the perception of sexuality in africa has been shaped over centuries by various power dynamics, cultural shifts, and external interventions. western academic discourses have often portrayed african se...

the life of jesus is one of history’s greatest mysteries. while much of his public ministry is recorded in the new testament, there is a huge gap in his biography—commonly referred to as the "lost yea...

kendrick lamar’s super bowl performance, aside from his ongoing feud with drake, was celebrated by social media users, who claimed that it highlighted black identity, social justice, and systemic crit...

are we truly free? every time we ask this question, we find ourselves trapped in the same paradox. we believe we control ourselves, but do we really? we wake up in the morning, grab our coffee, sit in...

when is a person truly outcast? is it when a door is shut in their face, or is it when they step inside but still aren’t really there? is exclusion simply about being rejected by a group, or is it...

i take a few steps back. is my heart beating? i don’t know. am i breathing? no idea. but the scent still fills my nostrils. how is that even possible? i look under my bed again. the corpse is sti...

fuck this. with an immensely overwhelming sense of boredom, i spend my days in bed, growing ever more intimate with my sheets—sheets i haven’t washed in a month, darkened by my sweat, dirt, and grime....

every society has its outsiders—those deemed suspicious, dangerous, or simply “different” from the accepted norms. in early modern europe, marginal groups ranged from religious minorities...

writing in 2025 is quite an interesting challenge. in this age of visualized and fast consumption, there exists a generation that consumes scrollable, disposable visual content on social media every d...

on an autumn night in 1352, in one of the most remote villages of europe, a gloomy castle vanished into the mist. villagers believed the castle was cursed, whispering about the strange sounds that ech...

one morning, people looked up at the sky and saw a massive crack, as if a blue glass ceiling had shattered. strange light leaked through the crack, but those who dared to stare into it found themselve...

at exactly midnight, a strange message echoed on an old radio frequency. the voice was distorted, the words broken, but the meaning was clear: ‘the city has been evacuated; those who remain are left t...

one morning, when he woke up and looked out the window, he realized the streets were completely empty. there were no birds, no people. the air was strangely warm, and the sky was a dark shade of orang...

eric hobsbawm’s&nbsp;the age of revolution: 1789-1848&nbsp;examines the foundational period in which the modern world began to take shape. the two revolutions—the french revolution and the industrial ...

one of the most fascinating rituals of ancient mesopotamia, the akitu festival, was more than just a new year’s celebration for the babylonian people. it was a comprehensive ceremony in which social o...

in the vast and desolate lands of wyoming, at the foothills of the black hills, native american warriors attacked a caravan carrying wagons full of furs, leather, and exotic spices brought from the ea...

prologue: digital limbo yu-jin, a social media influencer with millions of followers, had drifted so far from her own reality that she only learned who she was through the reflection of herself in ...

-1- isadora vega. she had carefully done her makeup, wearing high heels that made her already tall frame even taller. with her black fur coat that reached the floor, she seemed to grow like a shado...

the smell of smoke still lingered in the streets of paris. on a cold winter morning in 1386, people stumbled through the muddy roads, shoulder to shoulder, gathering to witness history. conversations ...

richard kearney’s “strangers, gods and monsters” is a profound exploration of the human struggle to define itself in relation to “the other.” the other, as kearney portrays it, is not merely an extern...

traditional histories often present human development as a linear progression, from hunter-gatherer groups to agricultural revolutions and eventually hierarchical state systems. these views are largel...

year: 1943. location: a “neutral peace room.” but don’t imagine a quiet, solemn room. no. this is not diplomatic, it’s an overly expensive hotel meeting room. in the middle is a massive table, unneces...

malcolm. when he arrived in the town, nothing changed. at first. but whispers began. they crept through alleyways, lingered in unclosed windows, and slipped into the quiet of night. peopl...

jack was sprawled on a gray couch, scarred with cigarette burns, probably from the time of the last world war. his eyes were fixed on the stains on the ceiling, questioning his life choic...

every neighborhood has its quirks. some are charming, like the sound of church bells or the smell of fresh bread from the local bakery. others are less so. but this neighborhood’s definin...

fallos ministry was introduced as one of humanity’s most “important” innovations. in the past, people’s desires were uncontrollable; passion, chaos, and scandals were everywhere. society ...

santa claus sat on his icy throne in the snowy arctic, thinking about how beloved he used to be. the laughter of children, the warm thank-you letters from families, and the little cookies left out for...

the world, in one way or another, is the world as we know it. our knowledge of reality is shaped by the language and concepts within it. this is true, yes. but we are not bound to these limits. we can...

chapter 1 huseyin efendi is a physician at mahmut dede bimarhanesi. he is a graduate of western medical education. although he tries to approach mental illnesses scientifically, he str...

chapter 1: shadows in the golden labyrinth in the vast toran empire, the golden labyrinth was not just a palace; it was an enigma. its walls shimmered with intricate gold patterns, so bright under ...