Run Like Hell — Fear Turned Into Command and Momentum
Fear Turned Into Command and Momentum
The Wall
Comfortably Numb — Sometimes You Discover a Song After You Have Heard It
I had heard Comfortably Numb before. But during a period when I was deeply introspective and sad, I heard the guitar again and it felt like a song I had never actually discovered. After that, it became one of the songs I returned to on lonely, melancholic days.
Waiting for the Worms — How Authoritarian Thinking Grows Inside Isolation
How Authoritarian Thinking Grows Inside Isolation
The Trial — Putting the Self on Trial Using Every Voice Already Inside It
Putting the Self on Trial Using Every Voice Already Inside It
The Show Must Go On — Performance Continuing After the Self Has Started to Disappear
Performance Continuing After the Self Has Started to Disappear
In the Flesh — When the Persona Returns Without the Question Mark
When the Persona Returns Without the Question Mark
Don't Leave Me Now — Dependency at the Point Where Love Becomes Damage
Dependency at the Point Where Love Becomes Damage
Hey You — The Need for Contact After Building the Barrier Yourself
The Need for Contact After Building the Barrier Yourself
Bring the Boys Back Home — The Demand to Bring Human Cost Back Into the Picture
The Demand to Bring Human Cost Back Into the Picture
One of My Turns — When Suppressed Emotion Changes State Too Quickly
When Suppressed Emotion Changes State Too Quickly
Stop — The Moment a System of Thought Finally Interrupts Itself
The Moment a System of Thought Finally Interrupts Itself
Goodbye Cruel World — Withdrawal as a Decision Rather Than a Mood
Withdrawal as a Decision Rather Than a Mood
Outside the Wall — What Remains After the Structure Finally Opens
What Remains After the Structure Finally Opens
In the Flesh? — Performance, Identity, and the Question Mark After the Persona
Performance, Identity, and the Question Mark After the Persona
Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2) — Education Is Not the Same as Obedience
The famous line sounds like a rejection of education. The more interesting reading is almost the opposite: what happens when a system that is supposed to expand a mind starts training it to become smaller?
The Thin Ice — How Fragility Can Exist Before a Person Knows Its Name
How Fragility Can Exist Before a Person Knows Its Name
Empty Spaces — The Need to Fill a Gap That May Not Be Fillable
The Need to Fill a Gap That May Not Be Fillable
Mother — Protection That Slowly Becomes a Wall
Protection That Slowly Becomes a Wall
Nobody Home — Private Inventory as Evidence of Disconnection
Private Inventory as Evidence of Disconnection
Is There Anybody Out There? — The Smallest Possible Question From Inside a Large Wall
The Smallest Possible Question From Inside a Large Wall
Young Lust — Desire Used as a Distraction From Isolation
Desire Used as a Distraction From Isolation
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 1 — Loss as the First Piece of an Architecture of Isolation
Loss as the First Piece of an Architecture of Isolation
Goodbye Blue Sky — Beauty Seen Through the Memory of Destruction
Beauty Seen Through the Memory of Destruction
Vera — Remembering a Promise That History Could Not Keep
Remembering a Promise That History Could Not Keep
Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3 — When Isolation Stops Feeling Accidental
When Isolation Stops Feeling Accidental
The Happiest Days of Our Lives — Why Institutional Cruelty Often Hides Behind Routine
Why Institutional Cruelty Often Hides Behind Routine