Essays
I spend most of my time writing on social media and journaling. This section contains my various writings over the years including some dug up from the Internet Archives.
Archives
Control Is Key
No matter how strong you are in your logic, your reason, your regulation, you are ALONE in it. No one around you has what you have. Not 99% of the world.
On Clavicular
Why don't you sit and think about all of the elements of society that brought us to where we are right now and then think about where lack of empathy, understanding, and sympathy has gotten us.
Your Abusers Are Winning
Demanding that the most vulnerable sacrifice themselves to inconvenience the most insulated and powerful is not strategy ... it’s madness.
Social Media Has Made You Strange – Part 2
Not being able to accept someone else's lived experience without having a negative reaction or needing to insert yourself into it is a sign of dysfunction.
The Deeper The Bow …
Apologies are agreed upon and all about gesturing. When the depth of the bow indicates the depth of the apology, that's called theater, not truth.
People Need Media Therapy
When I created the psychological modality of Media Therapy in the 90s, it was born out of a desire to really understand how people could watch artistic mediums so differently and the different aspects of psychological and emotional development (or lack there of) that figure into how media is interpreted uniquely.
The Word You Are Looking For Is “Evil”
"You touch a kid, you're supposed to die. Straight up. You rape a woman, you're supposed to die. Straight up." - Kevin Gates
Masked Legacy
My father did a lot of good. Too much to just ignore or let disappear because of his generation's trauma, silence, or my singular opinion about one of his masks.
On Rats and Truth
Truth is isolating. Truth is terrifying. Truth is painful. But the truth is: We can no longer live as rats. We know too much.
How (Not) To Survive
Just because you CAN'T handle something, doesn't mean there is something wrong with those who can. Stop being the problem and become part of the solution.