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Why You Should Give Up on Your Dreams
Subjectivity under Byung-Chul Han’s achievement-society
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Rahul Samaranayake
August 2023
Why Self-Help Is Making You a Slave
Do not make yourself the existential project of your life; that’s a sign of defeat.
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Rahul Samaranayake
July 2023
The Metaphysical Case for Love
Love has to be rescued from the love-industrial complex
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Rahul Samaranayake
April 2023
Love Is Violent; Love Is Mundane
The truth of love lies in the contradiction where two fully assume “the fall”
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Rahul Samaranayake
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March 2023
Why Love Matters
It is love, not sex, that needs liberation.
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Rahul Samaranayake
February 2023
No Feeling Is Final, So Just Keep Going
Human beings aren’t a destination, Rilke says; therefore, society isn’t one either.
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Rahul Samaranayake
Masculinity and Nothingness
You become a man instead of being born one.
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Rahul Samaranayake
December 2022
Why I Hate Inner Peace
Our Dying Culture
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Rahul Samaranayake
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November 2022
Little Miss Sunshine And The Pressure To Be Happy (Part 2)
Despite Michael Arndt not admitting it, Little Miss Sunshine is an inadvertent Christian film.
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Rahul Samaranayake
Little Miss Sunshine And The Pressure To Be Happy (Part 1)
Like Moby Dick not being about a whale, Little Miss Sunshine isn’t about a road trip.
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Rahul Samaranayake
September 2022
Write Through Love
The Unhappy Man: Guiding Axiom #7
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Rahul Samaranayake
Embody Humility Without Vanity
The Unhappy Man: Guiding Axiom #6
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Rahul Samaranayake
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