OCD & Philosophy

It is explained why having little time to write may improve one's writing.

Usually, if one tells lies, one becomes a lie. And usually, therefore, it is not the person that is using the lie, but the lie that is using the person, the person having become a mere vehicle for a larger deception.

Women text to connect with others. Men text to escape from themselves.

The behaviors and character-traits by means of which people try to compartmentalize their badness themselves become outlets for their badness.

Ideas that we dismiss as insignificant tend to prove significant, and ideas that strike us as significant tend to prove insignificant. In this paper, it is explained why this is so.

The individual is to be understood in terms of the group, not the other way around.

Teaching-positions are a crypto-welfare given to unemployable adults, with predictable abysmal consequences for the education of our youth.

A dialogue about censorship.

A brief discussion of the nature and social function of sarcasm.

A dialogue about the War on Drugs.