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The strange mercy of death

I was fifteen when death moved out of the distance and into the bed beside me, and it took years before I stopped seeing it as an enemy.

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· 13 min read

The whore of Babylon was always us, a story by Michael Wargr.

The whore of Babylon was always us

I thought religion was a trick for gullible people. Then the old stories started looking less like superstition and more like a report on the crowd, and on me.

· 8 min read

The side effect of knowing yourself, a story by Michael Wargr.

The side effect of knowing yourself

The most confident people I have known never seem particularly interested in the question of how they look. That, it turns out, is the trick.

· 5 min read

Meat on a table in a slaughterhouse, matching a story on conformity and herd mentality.

How we choose the slaughterhouse

You think you think for yourself. You don't. You follow, repeat, defend, and call the fence your own judgement.

· 5 min read

A solitary figure in a dark room, matching a story on fear, integrity, and corruption.

How fear turns the good in us into corruption

Corruption rarely starts with a bad person. It starts with a good one who learns to use goodness as an alibi.

· 4 min read

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