steven franssen
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Isolation Is Not The Way
A number of friendships in the past ten years have gone the same way for me: I am discarded in favor of ideology. People don’t invest much into their relationships that way when ideology comes knocking, it isn’t so painful for them to pull up stakes and retreat further into their isolation. It is all… Continue reading
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The Alternative To Narcissism
Relationships require upkeep. This means that goodwill needs to be banked with some frequency or the relationship will fade away. Most everyone has found themselves in the situation where they are putting in more effort than the other person. This tendency finds its origins in childhood, where we had to manage a parent who was… Continue reading
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People Who Cut Themselves Down
The world is full of propaganda designed to wear people down and disconnect them from their reasoning capacities. You are supposed to go along with the herd and not disrupt the various criminal schemes operating at the heart of the systems that keep society moving. This would be the monetary system, the government, the media… Continue reading