Maxim Blake
Earth · MMXXVI
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Disposable Humanity
Contemporary · Critique · Dark Humor · Indifference

Disposable Humanity

Those who know me also know how intrigued I am by human self-extinction. I am studying human brain chemicals and structure for the novel I am writing; therefore, further research into pollution led me to write this piece today.

4 min
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Starving the Beast Next Door
Capitalism · Contemporary · Critique · Existential · Indifference

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.

2 min
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Nationalism's Favourite Colour
Contemporary · Indifference · Power · Privilege · Psychological · Social

Nationalism's Favourite Colour

Uniformity is a mask for fear. Across a world flirting with tyranny, truth is drowned and obedience sold as strength. I argue the opposite. Diversity, disagreement and the courage to think are not our weakness, they are the only path to survival and renewal.

11 min
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Stones
Critique · Indifference · Existential · Contemporary

Stones

A letter to Benjamin Netanyahu and his team. There's a wall in an ancient city. They called it the wailing wall. It's made of stones. People still press their foreheads to

6 min
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Money's Velvet Fist
Capitalism · Power · Dark Humor · Critique · Indifference · Philosophy · Satire · Privilege · Silence · Social · Society

Money's Velvet Fist

And so we come to money, the quiet god behind the curtain. It does not shout. It does not demand. It simply exists, and everything else bends around it. Money doesn’t knock down the door, it slides a key under it and waits. Patient. Clean. Silent.

3 min

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