Beep Beep

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My website is RandomBoo.com, but until the good old days of GeoCities return and we all start visiting each other and signing guestbooks, I have to pop out occasionally and visit this site

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BRIDGES ARE SOCIALISM

The great MetLife Stadium walking debate, why a bridge is not about crossing a road, but because bridges are socialism.

May 21·5 min read·953 words

ECLIPSED BY EVIL

We built a whole vocabulary to describe the world we live in, yet, time and time again, it proves to utterly fail in capturing the abyssal monstrosity of our own species.

Apr 19·6 min read·1068 words

MEMBERSHIP FEE

Faith, morality, and why believing in God can sometimes feel less like a question of goodness and more like a question of membership.

Mar 15·5 min read·826 words

THE INEFFICIENCY OF DISHONESTY

Why content without effort feels like dishonesty, and why human messiness might matter more than ever online.

Mar 11·5 min read·925 words

CANCER RELIEF

Why a cancer diagnosis felt like relief from a question I didn't even notice I was asking.

Mar 9·4 min read·610 words

VIVE LA DÉMOCRATIE

Vive la démocratie! From the Illuminati to technocrats, why every generation reinvents the same debate about who deserves to run the world.

Mar 4·8 min read·1457 words

LIFEHACK

Thoughts on suicide, guilt, and why the common idea that people simply “want to die” misses something important.

Feb 21·5 min read·896 words

99.9 PERCENT GASLIT

Marketing: When God gives you lemonade, sell lemons - as commercial conditioning claps.

Feb 19·6 min read·1147 words

ART OF ABSOLUTION

Reinventing yourself after trauma - and what it means to seek absolution from the person you had to become to survive.

Feb 14·8 min read·1487 words

DEFECTIVE EPILOGUE

Why creating never feels like enough, why rest feels like guilt, and how a childhood labelled defective can make happiness feel unsafe.

Feb 1·4 min read·746 words

DRAWING A LINE UNDER INTEGRITY

A final attempt to untangle morality, empathy, and integrity - to understand why some people cross lines others refuse to.

Jan 30·6 min read·1114 words

THE END OF THE WORLD

From Ancient Egypt to modern Britain, the youth are, and have always been, ruining everything. And now it is the end of the world.

Nov 20·5 min read·929 words

NOTHING MATTERS

The freedom of insignificance, - and all it takes is a mirror to remind you you’re not God, and a tree to remind you that you don’t even matter.

Oct 5·6 min read·1139 words

THE MEANING OF LIFE

From sonder to quantum mechanics, philosophy to faith, and how consciousness may give shape to reality - what is the meaning of life?

Oct 2·8 min read·1450 words

IDIOTS GUIDE TO THE APOCALYPSE

Christian Zionism, prophecy, the apocalypse, and why you might just not be the good guys in this little story.

Sep 29·4 min read·648 words

SEVEN KINGS

Revelation’s seven kings echo across history, and if you're counting, you're playing your last hand.

Sep 25·4 min read·615 words

BINARY INTELLIGENCE

Are you intelligent, or stupid, or both? Do you even know what intelligence is, or are you intelligent enough to not care?

Sep 24·6 min read·1059 words

DIVORCED REJECTION

Divorce, rejection, and how therapy sometimes treats the words spoken rather than the reason they were said.

Sep 18·4 min read·639 words

I BUY, THEREFORE I AM

Neoliberalism Sale: Buy Now! - Why not borrow against a future you’ll never own?

Sep 15·4 min read·646 words

THE PENDULUM SWING

Cancel culture began as accountability but became a cultural pendulum - from #MeToo reckonings to overzealous witch hunts, DEI backlash, and ideological whiplash. How cancel culture turned into societ…

Sep 9·4 min read·743 words

TO BE GOOD

Is your good morality true integrity or just obedience under surveillance?

Sep 8·3 min read·462 words

AI AND I

AI won’t destroy us because it thinks like a machine, it'll either be because it feels nothing, or because man thinks like a machine.

Aug 27·4 min read·760 words

PRIDE AND PRETENCE

Why I no longer feel pride in Britain - not because of its past, but because of what it's becoming.

Aug 26·4 min read·704 words

DREAMLAND

The flip between reality and dreams differ in description, but what about in substance?

Aug 22·4 min read·753 words

SOCIAL ENTROPY

SOCIAL ENTROPY: How the dream of connection became an endless scroll of disconnection.

Aug 20·6 min read·1039 words

EMPATHY

Is empathy a true human instinct or just a social performance? From the philosophy of empathy, morality, to whether feeling or performance guides our decency.

Aug 18·5 min read·841 words

TRAGICALLY BEAUTIFUL

The Desire to Be Sad: The Allure of Tragically Beautiful Art and the Romanticisation of Mental Illness.

Aug 16·4 min read·756 words

PRIVILEGED OPPRESSION

How privilege mistakes equality for oppression, tracing the cry of “socialism” from slavery to civil rights to Trump-era politics.

Aug 10·6 min read·1024 words

THE BADDIES

The Baddies in fake news, propaganda, and why history’s villains always lose

Aug 1·4 min read·662 words

POLITICAL ENSHITTIFICATION

Political Enshittification as Oligarchy, - lobbying replaces competition in capitalism, but for technology, removing innovation also removes relevance.

Jul 28·6 min read·1170 words

BURNT TOAST

A burnt toast sermon on heaven, happiness, and the futility of eternal bliss. - For joy only means something because it doesn’t last.

Jul 22·3 min read·536 words

PRECARIOUSLY CREATIVE

To be precariously creative - finding creativity through addiction, and whether it was ever really mine.

Jul 19·5 min read·814 words

THAT WAS BEEP BEEP

Why I stepped back from the This is Beep Beep project, and how a childhood diagnosis from the lost and found box, felt more like misdiagnosed theft.

Jul 10·6 min read·1038 words

MAGIC 8 BALL

Are we free or just raindrops reacting to chaos? From Laplace’s Demon and determinism to quantum mechanics. - and why questions matter more than answers.

Jul 2·6 min read·1015 words

NOT INTENDED FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION

LLM SEO, AI, and how the human web was hollowed out for machines - only for machines to eat it anyway, leaving the internet: Not Intended for Human Consumption

Jun 19·4 min read·686 words

WHAT DO YOU KNOW?

With your limits of modern knowledge without real-world application. What Do You Know?

Jun 15·3 min read·535 words