Will Storr’s The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It is an incisive, often unsettling, look at one of the most fundamental forces shaping human behavior: our relentless pursuit of status. With a journalist’s sharp eye and a psychologist’s depth of inquiry, Storr makes the case that…
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The World of Ends
It is not the end of the world – not in the apocalyptic sense, at least. The oceans haven’t boiled. The stars haven’t blinked out. The earth spins on, indifferent to our tantrums and triumphs. Yet, as we sip lukewarm coffee in dim-lit rooms and scroll through the curated chaos…
Are You an Indentured Servant? – No, Seriously!
Indentured servitude was once a contract entered into with the hope of escape—escape from poverty, from stagnation, from a life that promised nothing beyond mere subsistence. It was a promise of eventual freedom, bought at the cost of years of toil. Today, the contract is less explicit, but the structure…
The Footprint of a Man
There is a certain kind of fellow who drifts through life as a leaf upon the wind, content to neither hinder nor help, and another who, like the ox, treads heavily and thoughtlessly, leaving a rut where once there was firm ground. Then there is the rare man who moves…
How to Make Any Life More Fulfilling
Dream, Create, Grow—these three words sum up a philosophy that echos the essence of the human journey. They are not just actions; they are principles that define who we are, what we strive for, and the legacy we leave behind. To live fully is to embrace these three pillars as…
Jack Kerouac’s “On the Road” – in his own words?
And so it starts with me, Sal Paradise, yearning for something more, restless, rolling cigarettes in a dim New York room, feeling the weight of time pressing down on my bones. Then Dean Moriarty blazes into my life like a comet, crazy and hungry and full of wild laughter, this…
The Nature of Human Generosity and Selfishness in the Absence of Law
Are human beings, by their essence, generous or selfish? It is a question as old as philosophy itself, debated by theologians, political thinkers, and poets. The answer is often sought in abstraction, in idealized notions of human nature. But when we strip away the formal structures of civilization—when the law…
The Economy of a Human Life
There’s a basic rule in economics: a society can’t consume more than it produces. At least, not indefinitely. Sure, with credit and debt, countries and individuals can stretch beyond their means for a while. But if the global economy functioned like a perfectly balanced ledger, consumption would always have to…
The Unconventional Life: A Life Worth Living
Most people go about their days as if on a set course, following patterns laid before them without questioning whether those patterns serve them or merely confine them. The habits of the world become their habits, and the expectations of others dictate the form of their existence. To live in…
The Root of Purpose: Creation and Contribution Over Consumption: One Man’s Experiment
I left my comfortable life in the city, sold my house, quit my job, and went to the woods because I wished to strip away the superfluous, to lay bare the marrow of existence and to ask of life what it had to teach. In those quiet hours by the…