empathy – Joseph D. Newcomer

For Love of the Shame

on July 19, 2021July 19, 2021 By Joseph D. Newcomer

I realize it’s weird to repost this since I just posted it last week, but I wanted to let everyone know that you can now listen to Thought & Other Absurdities as a podcast. It is available on several outlets and there are more to come. See where it’s currently available on Anchor here https://anchor.fm/joseph-d-newcomer .
I listen to everything on Spotify so here is that specific link. https://open.spotify.com/show/3KT8D6t6CSsjzUknp4Y28g?si=GFznEzv9RKKxjizIbmPNPg&dl_branch=1

I hope you will all take a moment to listen and subscribe.

Enjoy

Joseph D. Newcomer

Living is a terribly humiliating proposition. If you make it through a single day without embarrassing yourself or feeling mortified for someone else, you’ve absolutely beaten the odds. It’s all a very telling sign that so few of us are able to do the things we feel we are meant to do, and instead, only get to do what we are forced by our needs to do, things that feel unnatural to us so that we are able sustain a life in this humiliating world we’ve constructed.

Consider the weary traveler. They have a lot on their mind, trying to get to the airport through traffic, thinking and hoping they haven’t forgotten something at their house or in the hotel, wondering if they’ll be able to get to their gate in time because their kid was screaming all morning and wouldn’t brush their teeth, so now they’re running late, just…

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Subjugation Ruling the Nation

on May 11, 2021May 11, 2021 By Joseph D. Newcomer 13 Comments

I wonder about the type of person or entity that would be interested in grand declarations of faith, love, and loyalty. I wonder, and I imagine that a human, creature, or deity requiring such displays would be undeserving of them for the same reasons they require them. We are not the things that are demanded [...]

Idol Man is the Devil Aground

on April 30, 2021April 30, 2021 By Joseph D. Newcomer 1 Comment

We have no needs, no real drive, and we can't be bothered to understand this passion in others. We are full bellies in a grocery store, unaffected by desire. And so, we stagnate in boredom and ennui, hoping to find the intangible thing that we feel we’re missing, which is our want for a need, for [...]

Just As Good As Anything: New Song from Joseph D. Newcomer of Mas Nova

on April 27, 2021April 27, 2021 By Joseph D. Newcomer 5 Comments

(& info on how to listen to Mas Nova) I rarely write new music these days, but I was recently inspired by the harrowing struggle of several amazing humans I know who are dealing with addiction. So, here's a new original song. It probably won't end up anywhere but here and on some social media [...]

The Nude Colossus

on April 23, 2021April 23, 2021 By Joseph D. Newcomer

The sentiments of old poems on old statues have been abandoned. Once, they filled patriots with rightful pride, but that pride is now only ego, and the meaning of the symbol is lost on nationalists who ignorantly boast of their allegiance for an idol they are unable to understand. The plain language, as esoteric as [...]