I don’t want this to be yet another literary-philosophical ‘I told you so’ about the perennial relevance of Camus’ La Peste. Forget the absurdity thesis for five minutes already. The book is first and foremost a beautiful and deeply relatable story about the way we fail to adapt to new realities. It is also deeply uncomfortable: our relationship to reality…
It is often at times of isolation that creative inspiration manifests itself. For some, loneliness can be terrifying and can lead to sadness or pain. But for others, there can be some kind of magic in loneliness. Stillness and loneliness can become a place where we can search within ourselves to find our own secret and silent truth. We talked…
In times of pandemic, freedom of speech is essential to survival. In China, government censorship has provoked a wave of public outrage, especially following the death of Dr. Li Wenliang, the COVID-19 whistleblower who subsequently died of the virus. Chinese citizens, especially the digitally savvy generation, have expressed concerns about the government’s banishment of the hashtag #WeWantFreedomOfSpeech behind the nation’s…