Main character memes

Main character Syndrome refers to a situation where people consider themselves the star of the feature film that is their everyday lives.

The syndrome exists in the overactive minds of the internet's many self-identified leading characters who embrace memes that encourage this outlook. How...

The book aptly explains the experiential anxieties of modern social media. Dostoevsky, writing in 1846, was dealing with a more urbanized society, which increased the numbers of social encounters, just like the Internet today. Yet he saw people lonely, paranoid & vain, isolated by their imaginary...

THE CROSSROADS

Should is how other people want us to live our lives.

It’s all of the expectations that others layer upon us. Sometimes, Shoulds are small, seemingly innocuous, and easily accommodated.

“You should listen to that song,” for example. At other times, Shoulds are hig...