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Social Truths or Forgotten Lies?

Robert Simoes / December 5, 2024

If memory serves, I came across the following statement reading @naval’s tweets: Society is a collection of individuals who have decided to […]

Robert Simoes / November 25, 2024

As the teacher signaled the end of class with a brief “Namaste” – I find myself amazed to hear the

When we’re not living in the archetypal cycle of mythology as shown by Joseph Campbell, we find ourselves quite far

I watched the teenager pull a copy of Albert Camus’ The Myth of Sisyphus from the shelf and glance it

Robert Simoes / February 11, 2024

In On the Genealogy of Morality, Nietzsche offered an insight into the human condition that contradicts our modern obsession with safety:

Robert Simoes / January 13, 2024

As I sat at edge of Toronto’s Harbourfront looking onto Lake Ontario, the grandfatherly words of Alan Watts entered my

The cool air bit my fingertips as we stood on the outdoor patio, indie guitar melodies flowing through the air

What reason is there, really, to do all this writing you ask? Is it perhaps because on the empty pages

Rene Girard theorized that the inability of human beings to generate authentic desire caused them to imitate others. While I

I watched in anticipation as the mass of participants trudged their heavy boots and uniforms through the sinking sand of