phousawanh's existential thoughts & reflections

Link to episode: https://share.descript.com/view/wBsj2i8GRjy TikTok can be deathly addicting–just some scrolls, you can find yourself glued to your phone screen and suddenly 5 hours pass!! But at the same time, TikTok can be seen as a good, as it is through TikTok that we can such amazing content! In this episode we discuss TikTok, using… Continue reading TikTok: Tool of oppression or liberation? Ft. Simone de Beauvoir

At the start of the pandemic I found myself glued to my phone an unusual amount and I found myself unhappy. Whenever I scrolled through Instagram or Reddit I often got sad because I started comparing myself with what I’m not. That hot instagram dude or the hero who’s helping with the pandemic, yeah that’s… Continue reading popular wisdom in social media today

Algorithms have been on my mind lately and I’ve been thinking how they may be used as tools of oppression. If they are indeed tools of oppression, how can we fight against them? I think Simon de Beauvoir may have some insight. Algorithms are ubiquitous and it’s often hard to avoid them. They are tools… Continue reading algorithms as tools of oppression

Whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiie. You jerk awake to the water kettle going off in the background. You must have dozed off. Looking around, you remind yourself where you are. You stare into the window, seeing the translucent droplets forming on the window. Pitter-patter-pitter-patter. Ah yes, it was raining. As you stare more into the window, you focus into… Continue reading childhood revisited.

Here’s a TikTok talking about bad faith from Sartre. Here’s a link in case the video above doesn’t load: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM894nSVa/

Here’s a cool Tik Tok talking about what we can learn from Adventure Time: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZM8mXjrAv/ Unfortunately I can’t embed the video for now 🙁

Growing up, Barney the dinosaur was a good role model for what good and bad is for me. I’d often watch him after school and it was a pleasant show to watch. One of the lessons that I remember from Barney is that “Sharing is caring.” Barney’s lessons on “Sharing is caring” implied to me… Continue reading sharing what “good & bad” and “good & evil” implies

Then you might be confusing this with despair! Do you think you’re not in despair? Well think otherwise! Kierkegaard would say that you’re in despair. But you may not look like this: But you may look like this! Well internally. But what am I talking about? What is this despair I am claiming that everyone… Continue reading are you in spiritual spain but the second s is silent?

While reading the last few chapters of the Myth of Sisyphus I’ve been wondering about what are some practical takeaways that I can use to apply to my own life. Here they are in enumerated bullet points:  Making art can be a means in living with the absurd. The artist, as Camus describes them, is… Continue reading camus: the artist, creator, & the man himself sisyphus