Maxim Blake
Earth · MMXXVI
A blog about human extinction
The Power of Stories * How lies become beliefs*  and how they spreads around
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The Power of Stories * How lies become beliefs* and how they spreads around

We need stories. All of us. Like water, like breath. They help us understand the chaos, or at least pretend we do. We don’t always care if they’re true. We care if they feel good, if they make sense in that quiet part of the mind where reason takes a back seat.

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Earth · MMXXVI
A blog about human extinction

Credimus quod dolemus.we believe what hurts us

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22 essays
26 obsessions

Recent · 6 dispatches

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The Premium Tier of the *Afterlife*
Dark Humor 17 Jun 2026 4 min

The Premium Tier of the *Afterlife*

Heaven ships free; Hell is £1.99 a month (and it renews automatically, which is the single most accurate detail in the entire enterprise). The Son of God is a loss leader. The Adversary is the upsell. You begin in the light, where it costs nothing, and you pay only to go down.

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The Maintenance Years *- Never trade your art for approval* - Just don't!
Existential 26 May 2026 7 min

The Maintenance Years *- Never trade your art for approval* - Just don't!

Daniel Goleman says we have two minds, one that thinks and one that feels. I put the feeling one in a cardboard box for twenty years and delivered the script. The maintenance mind is the half a machine can already do. The other half is the only part of me that cannot be subscribed to.

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The day my mother died
Fate 02 Apr 2026 2 min

The day my mother died

You were still warm, but your heart was no longer beating. I was longing to make you hear my gratitude for the life you gave me. I stood there, staring at you, thinking how beautiful you looked, even in dying bed. You could have been everyone's star, but you were mine.

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Starving the Beast Next Door
Capitalism 30 Mar 2026 2 min

Starving the Beast Next Door

Competition is the poison we drink whilst toasting to our health. So I play a dark game. I starve my neighbour. I become a black hole of mediocrity so he levels up to nothing. I save my best for the ones who deserve it. The rest get the silence. I am accelerating our extinction by refusing to play.

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Muscle Memory
Existential 20 Feb 2026 1 min

Muscle Memory

You are a collection of impeccable, elaborate masks, in orbit of a stunted heart; it rattles inside your chest like a dried pea in an empty tin can. I knock on your ribs and nobody answers; it is just a hollow room with the lights left on to trick the neighbours.

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