Category: Politics & Society
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School Sucks…
… but yes, it could be worse! Believe it or not, I learned about residential schools on vacation. I was twelve years old, maxing and relaxing in Phoenix, Arizona with my family; and my mother brought us to a residential school museum in the city. I don’t remember many of the details—only that the conditions…
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Notes towards a manifesto (take 2)
A generation of nihilists In my first ever philosophy course (back in high school), I made the mistake of thinking Nietzsche was a nihilist. My teacher gently corrected me, albeit in a way I misunderstood. Now, seven years later, I think I get it. Now I understand the death of God as the death of…
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our great shame
Especially now that it’s gotten warmer, I have (on one or two occasions) found myself craving ice cream in the middle of the night. The great thing about Toronto is that there is never a time when you are completely without the possibility of ice cream, so the last time I found myself in this…
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Kanada
Recently, I had the privilege of seeing the Auschwitz exhibit at the Royal Ontario Museum. For those near Toronto, I would highly suggest going to see it, although it’s not especially pleasant, nor should it be! There were a lot of things—horrible, damnable things—that stuck with me, but the strangest, which I never would have…
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ifs and the art of gaming
Celeste has quickly become one of my favourite platform games of all time. In case you don’t know, “platformers” are games, like Super Mario, where you’re on a 2D plane, generally doing lots of jumping and falling. Celeste has a lot of that, actually, since the premise is that you, Madeline, are determined to climb…
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roger that!
The funny thing about therapy is that, while you might assume that it’s about one person telling another person all of their problems, it’s actually about two people, not one. You need two people to have any kind of relationship, and that is precisely what therapy is. On the very last day of my placement…
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two party nonsense
Orwell was a socialist. Maybe you knew that, maybe you didn’t. You’d certainly be forgiven for not knowing it. I find most of the people who bring him up nowadays are pretty far from socialism themselves, and so they superficially equate Orwell’s critiques of the Soviet Union in his two most famous works—1984 and Animal…
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aliens in our midst
Romeo & Juliet was a much better play than I’d remembered. So often when I saw it as a child, or when we watched it in high school, it seemed terribly cliché, though it must be acknowledged that the reason it may have seemed cliché to me was because the play was so impactful in…
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a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth
Recently I found myself in a bit of a hurry. I was headed to my mum’s, and had forgotten the clothes I’d packed so, instead of the subway, I called an Uber since I was running late. Being driven to Union station felt like a treat I seldom experienced. Relatively speaking, I rarely even need…