Author: Warren Delacruz

Human beings are social creatures. Short of trying to avoid all interactions with people that are not of sheer utility, at some point we have to put on a less prickly demeanor and go and navigate the world, filled with other people who may be just as worried as us, if not more worried about […]

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I’m troubled by conspiracy theories a lot in today’s social climate because they are intended to be provocative, and those who endorse or argue for the validity of such things might feel as though a power greater than us, like the Illuminati, pulls all the puppet strings, and can’t be proven to exist or not […]

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The scariest part of all of the conspiracy laden discussions about the pandemic and the protocols put in place, is that it shows that people are much more likely to find credible the ideas that appeal to their deep-rooted fears, however irrational those fears may be. They will use their anger and their impatience to […]

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The world is a strange place right now. The gears of the economy that once ran day in and day out are now halted, and starting to rust. On the other hand, there are medical professionals who are risking their lives daily in order to save the lives of people who are the most vulnerable […]

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“It is not that we have a brief length of time to live, but that we squander a great deal of that time. Life is sufficiently long, and has been granted with enough generosity for us to accomplish the greatest things, provided that in its entirety it is well invested; but when it is dissipated […]

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Do you ever wonder if you’re too judgmental? Of others, of yourself, of everything? Sometimes it seems like we’re always only just observing the world in order to slap a big old label of good or bad on everything we fucking see. The Stoics would say most of what troubles us lies in these good/bad […]

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