Compulsively, you grab your phone and click, scroll, like, share, and browse. It feels like your face is being pulled into the screen, sucked into the spectacle. This reduces your impulse control and overall agency. You never feel fully nourished afterward. In fact, you feel the opposite. If you paused and felt into the sensation, what you'd feel is emptiness.| Less Foolish
I get asked often: “What is The Stoa?”| lessfoolish.substack.com
On their press junket, Wicked actresses Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande appeared confused and performatively moved when their interviewer told them that people were “holding space” for the lyrics of the song “Defying Gravity.”| lessfoolish.substack.com
"A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading."| lessfoolish.substack.com