Apeirogon – Page 3 – The Junction

Simulated Stimulation

Just think about this headline for a second (recognizing that you are in front of a screen reading it): Most Adults Spend More Time on Their Digital Devices Than They Think. Or this one from 2014: Britons spend more time on tech than asleep, study suggests. The statistics are staggering yet relatable. The 2014 article maintains […]

by Aaron White

The Innocent Victims

“The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own” -Aldous Huxley Nearly 50 million children around the world are fleeing war or extreme poverty. Many […]

by Aaron White

The Loudest Silence

“Emma Gonzalez Is Responsible for the Loudest Silence in the History of US Social Protest” Thousands of students from all across the United States came together today to participate in the March For Our Lives rallies. One of the most powerful and heart-wrenching moments occurred during Emma Gonzalez’s speech, when she paused for 6 minutes […]

by Aaron White

A Matter of Perception

When looking at a Rembrandt from the normative distance that people usually adhere to in a museum, one can see the pronounced strokes and thick globs of paint. Yet when one takes a couple steps back, sometimes even all the way to the other end of the gallery – at just the right distance, as though […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Everyday Philosopher

“The philosopher will not find it any easier than anyone else to alter his attitudes and way of life” “At the very least, though, one can make a start. The philosopher who does so will have to sacrifice some of the benefits of the consumer society, but he can find compensation in the satisfaction […]

by Aaron White

Late Night Question

“The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible” – Albert Einstein. If we’re just a bunch of atoms, a combination of elements formed from supernovas, can we ever arrive at an adequate explanation for consciousness?

by Aaron White

Light Reading

Some light reading to cure a Sunday hangover: HUGO: Inaugurators will be training liquidation officers, while liquidation officers will be training inaugurators. DIRECTOR: And will it then be inaugurated by a liquidation officer trained by an inaugurator, or by an inaugurator trained by a liquidation officer? HUGO: Another training will have to be organized. Inaugurationally […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Pale Blue Dot

Carl Sagan I love this for a number of reasons. For the perspective that it gives to our everyday experience, for the way in which it demonstrates the power of rhetoric and music on emotions, and I love it for the illogically incorrigible moment of pride it instills in me about planet earth.

by Aaron White

The Perfect Leaf

Excerpts from a Toastmasters speech I gave several years ago, on the benefits of green tea. Camellia sinensis. Sounds like a terrifying disease, or an obscure type of cheese. Actually, it is the species of shrub used to produce green tea. I don’t know how many of you think about green tea on […]

by Freddie Stuart

The Goldsmith’s Tale

The Goldsmith’s tale is a short and basic history of our modern system of banking. It demonstrates the progression of logic to where we are today, and the profit-driven incentive that has propelled that progression. It also exposes the absurdity of our current system, and the tenuous nature of an economic order based on nothing […]