Author: Fiver
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Religious Experience
You never really knew what you would get back then
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Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
In this 1985 work, Neil Postman makes the case that TV is altering the form and content of American discourse and culture for the worse.
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A Retrospective on The Office
Some thoughts on failure, desire, and triumph inspired by the journey of Michael Scott.
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Welcome
It has taken me this long because it was not always my choice to make.
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The Tragic Beauty of Good Time
An examination of tragedy and contending with chaos in the film Good Time by the Safdie Brothers.
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A Misreading of “Fast Car”
but I remember when she was like the hand of God, pulling us from the wreckage of our parent’s lives, pulling us into wisdom.
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The Will to Power by Friedrich Nietzsche
Exploring the final work of the West’s most controversial philosopher Dostoevsky once said, “If Christ is not the truth, I prefer to remain outside the truth with Christ.” Though anybody can understand the words, to truly understand the sentiment is a difficult thing. Everyone finds ways to deceive themselves; it is another matter entirely to…
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The Problem with Ben Cremer
I first found out about Ben Cremer a few years ago when some mutuals on Facebook started sharing his posts. Then, as now, he was (following in the footsteps of the likes of John Pavlovitz) growing his platform by posting woke “Christian” takes on everything from abortion to BLM. As it turns out, that is…
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The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus
Meaning, Nihilism, and the Question of Suicide Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus is singularly obsessed with one question: is suicide a valid reaction to realizing that one lives in an absurd world? The Absurd It’s important to understand what Camus means when he refers to an absurd world. He doesn’t simply mean that we live…
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The Ego Economy: “Why Should I Care?”
I’ll typically check my social media between sets when I’m at the gym. It’s a bad habit, I know, but it’s harder to quit than smoking. Today, I’m training back and some boomer moron who probably watches CNN every night and hasn’t read a book in fifty years is calling me a “dumb kid” again.
The Barking Years 