With how the world has been going since 2020 and prior, it’s safe to say we may be in an age of crisis right now. This new year of 2026 started with a bang, and all we can do is hang on and hopefully not fall off the wagon too badly. It seems too easy to lose hope as we’re being drained of our worth and well-being by the urgency of our needs and wants. We need to shield ourselves from the hopelessness of this time by learning from both the past and the present. (more…)
While taking an evening shower, I was listening to a lecture by Professor Jiang Xueqin, a Chinese educator, writer, and former journalist whose videos on history and geopolitics have recently gained prominence on YouTube. I then had a shower thought that I then put into writing six hours later, which meant it was quite the epiphany since I didn’t easily forget about it. Maybe I just came up with a renewed purpose for pro wrestling. (more…)
My life choices that I don’t fully regret are: 1) I didn’t rush into relationships, 2) I don’t have many luxuries, and 3) I’m comfortable with being on my own. Many may see this 39-year-old man as a sad case of loserdom, and I don’t fully deny that. I’m fortunate these days for having few problems to stress about, remaining physically healthy, and steadily improving my mental health. While it’s not a life most would want or care for, it affords me the focus on what I value, which is all the reward I need. Very few loners are as lucky. (more…)
Since I added a philosophy category to this blog, I always wanted to tackle this topic. I’ve always been immersed in the connection between pessimism and nihilism and how it leads to ideas like antinatalism and extinctionism. Thankfully, I like learning new things too much to want to exit Planet Earth prematurely. With this piece, I actively purged myself of that desire to no longer be by looking at my nihilism dead in the eye and making it blink first. (more…)
As a lot of people like to say these days, ‘free speech’ does not mean ‘free from consequences’. However, I don’t think getting killed should be one of those consequences. While I’m of the opinion that these people who like to challenge their detractors to debates are doing it more as a performance and less as serious discourse, there’s no just reason for Charlie Kirk and his family to have suffered the fate that he did. (more…)
This is not something I usually write about, but I’ve been reading a particular set of books that had me thinking about what may happen in the future. Being able to project what may happen in 5 to 10 years can be useful in planning ahead for one’s life. Whether you care about politics or not, it’s worth looking into models that can help make that process more comprehensible and perhaps even more precise. After all, it’s still worth a few brain cells to have some awareness of current events — thinking you’re not affected by them is foolish at best. (more…)
Pro wrestling is a niche like no other, and it has been carved out with not a rusty spoon, but a colorful one, yet a spoon nonetheless. Like most other things on this earth, some like it and some don’t. Some take to it right away and some find it an acquired taste, while doubters and detractors line its outer perimeter like a lumberjack match. Every medium has critics, but those who criticize pro wrestling are seemingly more verbose and animated than most other things under the sun. Even pornography doesn’t invite this level of controversy, I feel. (more…)
If there’s one thing I should be doing more, which is to write a lot more on this blog. There are times when I find myself thinking that by not cranking out more material, I’m wasting my days on this earth. Perhaps that’s not a healthy thing to think about, but it does make me feel bad sometimes. This post is a musing on the unpredictability of the future and how we must all make the most of our time on this earth. However, writing for me is a lone endeavor — no one tells me to write other than myself. Perhaps I should spend more time with other people. (more…)
It was one of those late nights when I, who usually would fall asleep in a snap, was overcome with a rare insomnia. I would pace around the house restlessly, not knowing for sure what I wanted to do at the moment. I settled down and tried to focus on watching some YouTube videos. None of the usual stuff grabbed my attention, so I drifted to videos about psychology and philosophy. As I went through them, a lightbulb in my head started to flicker. This is the result of that uneasy night — a short treatise on religion and spirituality from my perspective. (more…)
With everything happening around the world as of 2025 — especially in society, politics, and economics — we may ask ourselves every so often how all of this ended up this way. Whether you now doubt the power of democracy or knew all along what it entailed in a society with lowering education quality, increasing cost of living, and worsening partisanship, you must be wary of the mass manipulation that sways our judgment through mass media and the Internet. Whether it’s traditional media or social media, all of them try to tell you what to think and believe — on who to believe in and who to hate. Perhaps the way is not to look for what to believe, but think for oneself and come to that conclusion on your own. However, they don’t want that. (more…)
This piece was in the works for almost a whole month prior to recording. I finally stopped procrastinating on 16 March, the day of our first major pro wrestling show for 2025 — Dexcon WrestleStorm 2. It’s about how trying to convince haters is mostly a waste of time. This is an appeal to everyone who is beset by anxiety and self-doubt caused by unsolicited criticism and bullying from outside influences. (more…)
StarCraft II still makes me nostalgic for what were the last few worry-free years of my life. I quite like the Wings of Liberty campaign, from following the struggles of Jim Raynor and the crew of the Hyperion, the antics of Tychus Findlay, and the gameplay progression with the unlockable units and upgrades. You get the sense of the revolution against Arcturus Mengsk being bootstrapped with scraps and held together by a thread. I replayed its campaign so much that I completed all the achievements. On the other hand, Heart of the Swarm gives me a really bad fuzzy feeling that it almost makes me physically nauseous. (more…)
