Constitutional Twister

We came along with our big ideas and all-encompassing statements and allowed for every person to imagine the best of what those broad, beautiful words could mean. We failed to consider our nature. Now, those beautiful, grand imaginings are perverted to protect even those who would destroy us under the sanctuary of those very same [...]

Undo You

“You do you,” is a fitting cliché for an apathetic era of humans without the wherewithal to understand how we affect each other. But it does sound a lot more polite than “Go fuck yourself.” Though the latter does seem more accurate. When the truth defied our opinions, we allowed our opinions to define the [...]

Heroes & Villains

All of our heroes were flawed. Upon this realization, we were slighted by our broken, self-invented promises of their perfection, and, even before that, by the unrelatable nature of it. We began to champion villains. We became what we revered. The openly vile are anything but disappointing and everything but unrelatable.