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American Confusion

15 Mar 2023 11 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

  "Dig Deeper" A woman is an adult human female. I do not need to be an accredited biologist to answer this question. Dylan Mulvaney, full stop, is not an adult human female. He is a man, an adult human male, who pretends to be a woman. However, I th...

Of Rebels and Saints

13 Mar 2023 7 minute read 1 comment MatTehCat

In our age of the internet, the desire for sincerity is a significant hurdle to overcome. With websites like Instagram or TikTok, the images we share with the rest of the world, which are supposed to reflect our lives but are highly curated, create a...

The Magic of Meal Making

10 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

What makes a meal? This past week, I’ve written on the need for communal action to generate meaning and play to overcome the contradictions we experience, and now I’d like to propose an example of just such an action: Making a meal. The need for comm...

A Tale of Two Absurdists

8 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

I believe because it is absurd. This famous line is attributable to Tertullian and rhetorically appeals to the Aristotelian argument that if something is continuously reiterated as fact, but it is absurd, it is probably true because no person would b...

Missing the Forest for the Trees Because of a Forest's Trees

6 Mar 2023 10 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Meaning, understanding, and knowledge; we all seem to want them, but when we have them, their ephemeral nature causes them to fall through our hands. In our search for these ephemeral items, we engage in philosophical and scientific endeavors, sift t...

Wavy thought lines

6 Mar 2023 1 minute read 3 comments Quick silver

I've been working at this company for a while now, and I've noticed something strange happening to me lately. It's like my thoughts are taking wavy paths instead of straight lines. I can't seem to think as clearly as I used to, and it's becoming more...

Cobwebs in my head

4 Mar 2023 2 minute read 7 comments Quick silver

Have you ever experienced a sensation of having cobwebs inside your brain, where it feels like you can't think as sharply as you used to? It's a strange feeling, almost like a foggy mind that impairs your ability to process and analyze information. I...

Nurture Qua Nature

3 Mar 2023 10 minute read 1 comment MatTehCat

Over the past week, I’ve opined on school choice and how culture is shaped by the quality of people shaping it. At their core, these kinds of discussions lead to a nature-nurture debate. For most people, it seems as if the skew is 50-50, i.e., 50% nu...

School Choice: At the Buffet Without an Appetite

1 Mar 2023 7 minute read 0 comments MatTehCat

Over the past year, much has been said about the need for school choice. A significant portion of this conversation emanates from the fact that test scores fell precipitously as a result of school closures during the COVID-19 shutdowns and online lea...

Art Imitates Life Imitates Art.

27 Feb 2023 14 minute read 2 comments MatTehCat

  A few months back, I wrote an extremely lengthy paper, almost a small book, on the evolution and development of morality. It was the product of several months of personal research I’d done during the summer of 2022 and, while I do think it needs to...