In this essay, I discuss how our culture of narcissism has reduced friendships to selfish transactions. I then discuss "circling" as a practice for developing the deep mutuality that can facilitate healthy friendship and culture. Circling is an interpersonal practice meant to cultivate emotional awareness, interpersonal care, and healthy boundaries.

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In this essay, I question the use of the term "masculinist" to denote subjectivities that privilege the masculine above the feminine. I first steelman the term by deconstructing Red Pill via the Kantian Society of Mind. I then titanium-man "masculinist" as "patriarchal", though with a sensitivity to context.

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In this essay, I discuss the developmental process for how a misogynistic man who cannot be friends with women can become a man capable of being friends. While the thought may seem so grotesque, the fact is that there are men like this and far, far worse. The people who most need to change must not have the tools of change taken from them.

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In this essay, I question whether men and women can ever truly be "just" friends. Research seems to suggest that women can, but men can't. How can friendship work when so many men would fuck all their friends? Think about what this says about the limits to egalitarianism in a solarpunk culture.

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In this essay, I deconstruct Halloween as an example of a mythos. A mythos includes a narrative with practices, rituals, and festivals that orient people within that narrative. Think about the story you tell yourself about what it means to be a citizen of your nation, and how national anthems, national holidays, and art inspire you to be proud of that national identity. Halloween is a very specific holiday with a very specific history and meaning that create a very specific identity. What might it look like in a solarpunk culture and what kind of identity do we want it to create?

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In this essay, I use platonic friendships as an example for how the self is created out of its relations with others. This may seem odd since I've been using romantic relations as a case study for the definition of a solarpunk self. Why are platonic friendships necessary for romance that can create us as ethical people?

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In this essay I connect the dots I've been laying down over the last 13 essays. If the self is relational, created out of its relations with others and the world, then we have to reckon with the meta-contextuality of the self. We are created out of contexts that we create through the person we become across all contexts. There is ethical weight to that insight.

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In this essay, I outline the movement from Expert to Achiever, and beyond. To grow out of conformity we must conform to Experts who represent our emerging ideal. That means that our ideal is intimately bound up with what our culture takes to be "expertise".

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In this essay, I discuss the psychological development that occurs from Conformist to Individualist/Pluralist. I first outline what it means to be Conformist, how we become defined by a social identity. I then outline the movement away from conformity through experts that represent an emerging personal ideal.

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In this essay, I discuss the twisted forms of love, phobos and thanatos. Phobos is the love of unhealthy aspiration that drives us to hate the "lower" parts of ourselves. Thanatos is the love of our current world's desires to the exclusion of any aspirational self. I then explore the sexual-romantic worlds opened up by these different forms of love in feminist and manosphere men.

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