# Thinking, Unfortunately

> Essays and musings that wander through life’s small moments and big questions on any subject that calls.

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## Posts
- ["The Horse Drinks Milk" and Other Late-Night Threats from a Green Owl](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-horse-drinks-milk-and-other-late-night-threats-from-a-green-owl): An essay on Friedrich Nietzsche, a Green Owl, and the Anatomy of Algorithmic Guilt
- [The IKEA Man Keeps Smiling While Everything Falls Apart](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-ikea-man-keeps-smiling-while-everything-falls-apart): An essay on Albert Camus, IKEA instruction manuals, and the quiet psychological collapse of a man holding an Allen key.
- [Your Music Taste is in the Top 0.5% of Listeners](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/your-music-taste-is-in-the-top-0-5-of-listeners): An essay on Adorno, Spotify Wrapped, and the spiritual violence of discovering your personality is just one song replayed 847 times
- [Off the Record (If Only)](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/off-the-record-if-only): An essay on Jacques Derrida, the fear of recorded permanence, and screaming into the void.
- [Sartre Stole My Bike](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/sartre-stole-my-bike): An Essay on forgetting vehicles, remembering markets, and losing existential battles to livestock.
- [People with Low Batteries on the High Art Wing](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/people-with-low-batteries-on-the-high-art-wing): An essay on Walter Benjamin, the illusion of digital ownership, and the tragedy of the crooked masterpiece
- [The Aristocrat, the Idiot, and the Border Control Agent](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-aristocrat-the-idiot-and-the-border-control-agent): An essay on Diogenes the Cynic, the delusion of the blue circle, and the sheer humiliation of acting like a golden retriever.
- [Man is Born Free, but Peter is Freer.](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/man-is-born-free-but-peter-is-freer): An essay on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, the Social Contract, and the unbearable weight of the 'left the group' notification
- [The Eastern European Horse Can Wait](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-eastern-european-horse-can-wait): An essay on Søren Kierkegaard, the abyss of the infinite scroll, and the aesthetic safety blanket of the 00s sitcom
- [The Delusion of the "15-Minute" Commute](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-delusion-of-the-15-minute-commute): An essay on Henri Bergson, the arrogance of the internal clock, and why I am always sweating in my winter coat
- [The Calculus of Misery and the "Door Jog"](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-calculus-of-misery-and-the-door-jog): An essay on Jeremy Bentham, the hedonistic calculus, and why holding the door is actually a net-negative for society
- [Taken Hostage by a Hobby](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/taken-hostage-by-a-hobby): On conversational narcissists, Martin Buber, party monologues, and the philosophy of refusing to listen
- [Embers](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/embers): Taking Things Personally for Forty-One Years
- [Smooth, But Not Like Santana](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/smooth-but-not-like-santana): An essay on Byung-Chul Han, the violence of a beige trench coat, and why my life refuses to be a capsule
- [Substance of Surface](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/substance-of-surface): An essay on Sianne Ngai’s 'Gimmick', the betrayal of textures, and a coffee table that is fundamentally sawdust
- [The Fall](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-fall): Imagination goes traveling and despair stays in the hospital.
- [All Aboard the Trauma Express](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/all-aboard-the-trauma-express): A review of Station Malma by Alex Schulman
- [Tavern Man (O Tasqueiro) ](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/tavern-man-o-tasqueiro): A film whose silence is equivalent to a 3-hour independent art movie.
- [Meditation, but I Was Bitten](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/meditation-but-i-was-bitten): An essay on the monkey mind, Blaise Pascal’s wager, and the impossibility of finding nirvana on a flattened cushion
- [The Emotional Manipulation of Chlorophyll](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-emotional-manipulation-of-chlorophyll): An essay on the pathetic fallacy, Susan Sontag’s silence, and the emotional manipulation of a Fiddle Leaf Fig
- [Cogito, Ergo, Chrome](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/cogito-ergo-chrome): On browser tabs, borrowed memory, and the relief of forgetting.
- [My "To-Read" Pile Is Now Visible From Space](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/my-to-read-pile-is-now-visible-from-space): An Inquiry Into Unread Literature
- [Notes From a Failing Household Hierarchy](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/notes-from-a-failing-household-hierarchy): A Domestic Case Study in Technological Obedience 
- [The Ontology of “Just in Case”](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-ontology-of-just-in-case-6cca): An essay on storage, sentimentality, and preparing for nothing in particular
- [Why Your T-shirt is Giving Me a Headache](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/why-your-t-shirt-is-giving-me-a-headache): Interpreting Meaning in Minimal and Incomplete Messages
- [The Apartment That Looked Like It Had a GPA of 4.0](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-apartment-that-looked-like-it-had-a-gpa-of-4-0): An essay on affordance, domestic spaces, and behavioral fatigue
- [The Demigod Needs Therapy and I Need Better Algorithms](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/the-demigod-needs-therapy-and-i-need-better-algorithms): How Algorithms, Screens, and Saving Images Redefine Cultural Ownership
- [Instant Transformation? Babe, It’s Just Shampoo, Not the Age of Enlightenment](https://www.thinkingunfortunately.org/p/instanttransformation): Why Modern Language Sounds Profound but Says Very Little

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