‘Tis the Season: A Treatise on Holiday Guilt
We’ve all been there. The moment at a holiday or special gathering where it all hits the fan. The gift falls short of expectations, the...
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WELCOME TO ABSURDIST RAMBLING
Welcome to Absurdist Rambling, a space for philosophy and literary nonsense.
Hope vs. Fear: Philosophy of Fear pt. 2
Hope springs eternal, or so the saying goes. This lives as a solid truth, for many could not tolerate or imagine a life without hope....
Fear Is in the Eye of the Beholder Pt. 1
In a previous piece, I touched on what makes good horror fiction and its connection to our inherent existential fears. Here, I want to...
There Is No Fixing This: Chapter 8
Chapter 8 Before the End IV We lean. Always falling back into something. Ourselves, someone else, something else. Never once stopping to...
There Is No Fixing This: Chapters 6 & 7
Chapter 6 Before the End III Ghosts. Ephemeral and eternal. What we were, who we’d be. Ghosts. Resistance lends itself to carelessness....
There Is No Fixing This: Chapter 5
Chapter 5 The End III You could say it’s lonely work, I suppose. Though looking back, I’ve always been fairly lonely. Not many kids to...
There Is No Fixing This: Chapters 3 & 4
Chapter 3 The End II It is an odd thing, dismantling a body. Breaking it down into its constituent parts. In essence, there is no real...
There Is No Fixing This: Chapter 2
Before the End I Disbelief runs rampant. Blood from a reopened wound. A wound that never had a chance to heal properly. Start. Stop....
There Is No Fixing This: Chapter 1
The End I Time bleeds from you any way to quantize the things you miss, given a long enough stretch. Photographic remembrance shifts...
America's Fear of the Other
This country was created originally by religious extremists exiled from England. These extremists saw the indigenous population of this...
Hegemony and Deflection
As of the writing of this piece, the full-blown war between the Ukraine and Russia is a week and half old. In that time, we have borne...
Epistemological Psychosis
The last few years have brought many things once kept hidden, close to the chest, secret, to the forefront of public thought. Once...
What Scares You Most?
Horror literature has been a staple of modern fiction, with varying levels of popularity, for a couple hundred years in English. Its...
The Search for Freedom
The idea of freedom is one often skewed, depending on where one happens to be born. No where is this more evident than for those of us...
The One True Philosophical Problem
“There is but one truly philosophical problem, and that is suicide.” So begins Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus. Camus spends the next...
Contesting Power
The other day, a tweet was making the rounds regarding those leaving their jobs or being fired for not adhering to the United State’s...
Who Wants to Live Forever?
Since we were capable of doing so, humanity has searched for a way to escape the inevitability of aging and death. A “fountain of youth”...
Ideology as Story Part 2: Ego and Faith
“We all create stories to protect ourselves.” -Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves As I discussed previously, ideologies as a concept,...
Deep In the Void-Like Heart of Texas
The news of Texas’ abortion should have, because it does have, an effect on everyone. The internet is rife with satire, parody, and...
Death and Grief
“If we vanished tomorrow, no organism on this planet would miss us. Nothing in nature needs us.” -Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against...
Ideology as Story
Two questions: Why do you believe what you believe? What is it about what you hold to be true to be taken as truth? I would hope these...
Feminism and Men
In almost the entirety of the course of human history, women have fought for equal rights and equity within society. I say almost because...
On Rhetoric and Language
I love the band Queen. Does this mean that I have feelings of romance towards four men I have never met? Of course not. The statement of...
Facing the Absurdity Through Activism
"We must imagine Sisyphus happy,” says Albert Camus in The Myth of Sisyphus, the first intentional philosophical foray into true...
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