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Trump, Scrooge, and Fascism

Born Under a Bad Sign (part 2 of 3)

Oct 10, 2024

Trump, Scrooge, and Fascism

Oct 10, 2024

Scrooge, Trump, and Fascism

Born Under a Bad Sign (part 1 of 3)

Oct 4, 2024

Scrooge, Trump, and Fascism

Oct 4, 2024

Barack Obama at the DNC: Naming Rumpelstiltskin’s Evil in America

Obama’s Cultural Critique

Aug 29, 2024

Barack Obama at the DNC: Naming Rumpelstiltskin’s Evil in America

Aug 29, 2024

Why You Should Read Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’ Now

The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein’s second great philosophical masterpiece, Philosophical Investigations, published posthumously in 1953…

Aug 15, 2024

Why You Should Read Wittgenstein’s ‘Philosophical Investigations’ Now

Aug 15, 2024

On Learning to Console the Person — Not the Hand

There is a moving passage in section 286 of Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations in which he writes about our tendency to regard…

Aug 1, 2024

On Learning to Console the Person — Not the Hand

Aug 1, 2024

The Toxic Ideology of Thinking ‘We’ Are Not Like ‘Them’

Pandemic Paranoia!

Jul 18, 2024

The Toxic Ideology of Thinking ‘We’ Are Not Like ‘Them’

Jul 18, 2024

Is Life a Big Problem that Needs to be Solved? Wittgenstein’s ‘Slippery Ice’ Metaphor

When it comes to human happiness, there is a paradox: On the one hand, we want big, simple, powerful solutions — quick fixes that solve…

Jul 4, 2024

Is Life a Big Problem that Needs to be Solved? Wittgenstein’s ‘Slippery Ice’ Metaphor

Jul 4, 2024

How to Overcome Career Anxiety: Wittgenstein’s Advice

“I’ve made a mistake in my career.” I’ve tried to get rid of this thought for years.

Jun 20, 2024

How to Overcome Career Anxiety: Wittgenstein’s Advice

Jun 20, 2024

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Thoughts And Ideas

What Kind of Mindset Shift Do We Really Want?

Future-Oriented “Success”

Feb 12, 2024

What Kind of Mindset Shift Do We Really Want?

Feb 12, 2024

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Thoughts And Ideas

Why Do We Worship Fame?

Growing up I had visions of what it would be like to lead a good life: to be praised. Specifically, to be thought of as a kind of god. Jim…

Jan 17, 2024

Why Do We Worship Fame?

Jan 17, 2024

We Need to Reclaim ‘Productivity’

Let’s talk about productivity. We all know that there’s a cottage industry on the internet around maximizing productivity. Lists of morning…

Jan 11, 2024

We Need to Reclaim ‘Productivity’

Jan 11, 2024

Prayer for a New Year

The world is a gloomy wood Mapped by well-worn routes That justify our self-aggrandizing acts Of horrific exploitation

Dec 31, 2023

Prayer for a New Year

Dec 31, 2023

Christmas

I see the sign of thunder Don’t make that sound, too loud! floating outside my window You have to be quiet now, daddy in pitch darkness…

Dec 19, 2023

Christmas

Dec 19, 2023

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio: A Powerful Message for Parents

Guillermo Del Toro’s films do not always grab me — but his version of Pinocchio had me in the palm of its hand. I was charmed, perhaps…

Mar 10, 2023

Guillermo Del Toro’s Pinocchio: A Powerful Message for Parents

Mar 10, 2023

Watching Charlotte Well’s ‘Aftersun’ (2022) Over and Over Again

When someone takes their own life, all the interactions we had with that person are forever altered. We look back over every moment…

Jan 23, 2023

Watching Charlotte Well’s ‘Aftersun’ (2022) Over and Over Again

Jan 23, 2023

Socks

‘Start from the back,’ you say each day for weeks and weeks to your toddler’s patience stretched by pulling up her socks.

Jan 21, 2023

Socks

Jan 21, 2023

Why You Should Watch the Movie ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ (2021)

The 2021 film All My Friends Hate Me is one of the few movies in recent years I watched multiple times. It’s part of a growing trend we’ve…

Jan 19, 2023

Why You Should Watch the Movie ‘All My Friends Hate Me’ (2021)

Jan 19, 2023

Authorship

History, written by Winners, Catalogs insanity By way of reason.

Jan 18, 2023

Authorship

Jan 18, 2023

Revisiting The X-Files: Is it still good? (YES)

Spoilers for The X-files episode “Beyond The Sea”, season 1 episode 13

Apr 16, 2021

Revisiting The X-Files: Is it still good? (YES)

Apr 16, 2021

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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)

A Story About Shame and Self-Acceptance While Ordering Pizza

I was in the second hour of wandering around my Brooklyn neighborhood on a glorious Saturday when I got an innocent text from my wife…

Mar 9, 2021

A Story About Shame and Self-Acceptance While Ordering Pizza

Mar 9, 2021

Ross J. Edwards

Ross J. Edwards

I’m a philosophy PhD candidate at the New School in New York. I write mostly about how Wittgenstein's philosophy can be applied to everyday anxieties.

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