Wargr — essays by Michael Wargr
How to stop the pain
The pain you have been outrunning has not moved. It is exactly where you left it, waiting to be heard.
Stop chasing purpose
The search for purpose is a trap most people walk into willingly. It ends only when they notice the search is the problem.
How we choose the slaughterhouse
You think you think for yourself. You don't. You follow, repeat, defend, and never notice the fence.
WTF is self-love?
Most people are crueller to themselves than they would ever be to the rudest of strangers. They have been doing it so long they no longer hear it.
The one you should have listened to
When a hundred people agree about something and one person doesn't, the one person is usually wrong. Until they aren't, and the cost of having dismissed them has already been paid.
I'm sorry. I meant well.
The people who hurt you most rarely thought of themselves as the people hurting you.
How fear turns the good in us into corruption
Corruption rarely starts with a bad person. It starts with a good one who has too much to lose.