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If you’ve spent enough time on the internet, you’ve seen a lot of people give up, and a lot of people disappear. The ease of posting online means that almost everyone below a certain age has left some remnant of their own creativity online. The internet is a place where you are free to dump…
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I recently read Henri Bergson’s book Creative Evolution, a book which is clearly the result of a philosopher spending far too much time wondering why a bunch of different animals ended up having eyes. Bergson is not a biologist, and the book came out in 1907, so we can’t expect much genetic insight here; rather, what Bergson…
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As they say today, so they will say tomorrow: “A few days in the woods will reinvigorate many a weary man.” After an April and a May that were about as stressful as I will allow a month to get, it was certainly a relief to free myself from familiar sights and the familiar thoughts…
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This essay is Part Two of a two-part series on Persona 4. Click Here to Read Part One. Persona 4 as: My High School Crush When people ask me why I started learning Japanese, I usually say that it was because I like Japanese music and literature. This is partially true, but it is also disingenuous.…
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There comes a day in a man’s life when he must reckon with the video games of his past. Today is such a day. The ‘video game as formative experience’ narrative is as archetypal of the modern age as any other coming-of-age story. Video games, now, are how we grow up, and for every subculture,…
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I don’t trust anyone who tries to tell me how my mind works. If someone tells me my mind works a certain way, I will do everything in my power to make it work the exact opposite way. If they tell me I want dopamine, I will throw my phone into a landfill. If they…
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It is not ironic but in fact perfectly logical that attempting to publish a book about a man whose greatest fear is other people looking at him has caused me such suffering and anguish. As much as I feel like I’ve grown since being a terrified 19 year-old who couldn’t open the .doc of his…
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When I was growing up, I was definitely not religious. I didn’t know anything about religion. My parents didn’t have any particular beliefs they wanted to impart on me, and so my main attitude was one of total ignorance. I didn’t know the stories of the Bible. I didn’t know who Jesus or Mohammad were…
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In 1995, Studio Ghibli released the first film directed by Yoshifumi Kondo. Three years later, he would pass away from an aneurysm, believed to have been caused by overwork, leaving Whisper of the Heart as his only full-length movie. Whisper of the Heart was written by Hayao Miyazaki, famous for My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away,…
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I find it nearly impossible to express myself in conversation. No matter how hard I try, I leave nearly every conversation feeling that I failed to say what I meant to say, that I misrepresented my feelings, and that the person I was speaking to gained a false or at least skewed understanding of who…
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