The forced introspection of the solo traveler. Much of my adult life has been spent on the road, in the skies, crossing rivers, lakes, and oceans, sitting on the back of tro-tros, tuk-tuks, taxis and trailers, busing frantically across countries with only one thing in mind: adventure. For someone without…

But there are ways to break free! Ever wondered what it must be like to live in a totalitarian society? To have no option but to unquestioningly submit to an unelected authority and follow somebody else’s rules? To act a certain way and dress a certain way and strictly adhere…

Society’s ultimate race to the bottom. In a socio-economic system that retains at its core, and prizes above all else, the tenets of hyper-individualism and self-agrandizement, is it any wonder that we are currently facing a selfishness epidemic the likes of which humanity has never seen? Atomized, propagandized and forced…

Frightening and wild (yet strangely beautiful) The terrifying feature of the black swan is that she tends to come out of nowhere. Her real talent lies in the shock factor. Having mastered the art of gliding silently upon the water and blending in with a darkened lake, you never see…

It’s coming faster than you think! Wracked by scandal, plagued by gossip and snookered into repeated breaks with tradition, the British Royal Family has recently reached a critical juncture in their struggle to retain supremacy. Much like the Catholic Church, this monarchical structure is heavily reliant on ancient laws, customs…

We are all on the precipice of psychological combustion. Prolonged periods of social isolation is recognized in the UN Convention as a form of torture. …

Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Lockdowns As much as we would all like to move on and forget that the wretched period of 2020–22 ever happened, the pandemic continues to rage on, at home and abroad, with unrelenting spite and vigor. Recently, in a shocking…

The war in Ukraine can only go 1 of 2 ways. The Vietnam-US War is an event we now reflect back upon as one of the darkest times in human memory, when unprecedented violence, driven by ideological fervour and hysteria, was exerted against a hapless nation by the world’s greatest…