Quoter of quotes, drinker of drinks, thinker of thoughts.
Full essays at Eshu Elegbara on Substack […]
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Here’s how I’m using each platform:
🌀 Blue Sky — quick hits, personal thoughts, jokes, politics, music, media, and the occasional chaos. If it touches my brain and doesn’t need a whole essay, it lands here.
🐘 Mastodon — slower and a little more composed […]
I overheard three women talking about dating on break. One said she’s dating men again, but only if the man can provide the lifestyle she wants: a farm, no job, no stress.
This is what romance looks like under capitalism.
When survival is tied […]
I overheard three women talking about dating on break. One said she’s dating men again, but only if the man can provide the lifestyle she wants: a farm, no job, no stress.
This is what romance looks like under capitalism.
When survival is tied […]
Every minor social inconvenience gets medicalized.
A harmless joke becomes “gaslighting.”
Awkwardness becomes “autism.”
Any childhood discomfort becomes “trauma.”
These are clinical terms meant to describe real diagnoses and real suffering. When everyone […]
Every minor social inconvenience gets medicalized.
A harmless joke becomes “gaslighting.”
Awkwardness becomes “autism.”
Any childhood discomfort becomes “trauma.”
These are clinical terms meant to describe real diagnoses and real suffering. When everyone […]
I was invited into a Reddit community called r/CosmicExtinction.
What I found there is almost exactly what Camus predicted would happen when people confront the void.
I was invited into a Reddit community called r/CosmicExtinction.
What I found there is almost exactly what Camus predicted would happen when people confront the void.
Everything has to be the system’s fault, or biology’s, or trauma’s.
But sometimes the truth is simpler — you just did the thing you chose to do.
Not because the world made you, but because you wanted to.
Everything has to be the system’s fault, or biology’s, or trauma’s.
But sometimes the truth is simpler — you just did the thing you chose to do.
Not because the world made you, but because you wanted to.
We reinvent ourselves, often because we can’t bear the version we were before.
But sometimes what looks like “becoming” is really grieving —
grieving the self we never got to be,
or the choices we can’t undo.
We reinvent ourselves, often because we can’t bear the version we were before.
But sometimes what looks like “becoming” is really grieving —
grieving the self we never got to be,
or the choices we can’t undo.
We used to call it a midlife crisis.
Now it happens five times before 30.
People used to live, reflect, and face what they’d done.
Now they delete, rebrand, and pretend the old self never existed.
The internet made it easy to reinvent yourself,
but it also made it harder to sit still and […]
We used to call it a midlife crisis.
Now it happens five times before 30.
People used to live, reflect, and face what they’d done.
Now they delete, rebrand, and pretend the old self never existed.
The internet made it easy to reinvent yourself,
but it also made it harder to sit still and […]
They’re trying so hard to live up to the curated selves they’ve built online — perfect mirrors they can never match.
No wonder they feel dissonance.
Because who you are isn’t what you’ve posted.
It’s who you are right now, in the unfiltered moment, away from the […]
They’re trying so hard to live up to the curated selves they’ve built online — perfect mirrors they can never match.
No wonder they feel dissonance.
Because who you are isn’t what you’ve posted.
It’s who you are right now, in the unfiltered moment, away from the […]
Das Man is watching me, piercing and true,
He knows what I do, what I did, what makes me you.
I hate those gypsy eyes, surveilling my very soul,
Telling me who I am, what must be my role.
It builds a simulation where I am always lost —
And me? I only ever wanted
the cost I never […]
Das Man is watching me, piercing and true,
He knows what I do, what I did, what makes me you.
I hate those gypsy eyes, surveilling my very soul,
Telling me who I am, what must be my role.
It builds a simulation where I am always lost —
And me? I only ever wanted
the cost I never […]
A second, curated version of who we wish to be.
But it’s never the full self.
No one logs on to say,
"Yeah, I bullied someone once.”
“I cheated.”
“I lied.”
A second, curated version of who we wish to be.
But it’s never the full self.
No one logs on to say,
"Yeah, I bullied someone once.”
“I cheated.”
“I lied.”
> “Outside of work, everyone loves me. But here, people think I’m negative. I don’t get it.”
I get it.
Outside of work, you curate your circle — people who mirror your pain, humor, trauma, politics. They feed off the same wavelength.
At work, you don’t get that […]
> “Outside of work, everyone loves me. But here, people think I’m negative. I don’t get it.”
I get it.
Outside of work, you curate your circle — people who mirror your pain, humor, trauma, politics. They feed off the same wavelength.
At work, you don’t get that […]
But the truth is:
The you of right now is also the you of yesterday, and it’ll be the you of tomorrow, should you live […]
But the truth is:
The you of right now is also the you of yesterday, and it’ll be the you of tomorrow, should you live […]
Seconds turn to minutes turn to years
But somehow in the fog of History it becomes clear
Life is but a waiting game,
a Shadow's chance to play
And so many like to shift all their blame
But not me, I'm not Pan, maybe a needle in the hay
I just like to remember the […]
Seconds turn to minutes turn to years
But somehow in the fog of History it becomes clear
Life is but a waiting game,
a Shadow's chance to play
And so many like to shift all their blame
But not me, I'm not Pan, maybe a needle in the hay
I just like to remember the […]
Every deleted post still happened. Every past self still lives inside us.
We can’t curate our way into innocence. The web never dies; it just forgets slower than we do.
It can’t feel […]
Every deleted post still happened. Every past self still lives inside us.
We can’t curate our way into innocence. The web never dies; it just forgets slower than we do.
It can’t feel […]
Paradox, compassion, and a modern Good Samaritan.
Read: https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#dailytaoreflection #taoteching #kindness #compassion #wisdom
Paradox, compassion, and a modern Good Samaritan.
Read: https://wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#dailytaoreflection #taoteching #kindness #compassion #wisdom
On joy, despair, and the friends who hold the light.
Out at 5 PM on Substack.
🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#blindfaithseries #psalms #spirituality #depression #hope
On joy, despair, and the friends who hold the light.
Out at 5 PM on Substack.
🔗 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#blindfaithseries #psalms #spirituality #depression #hope
The ouroboros turns inward, and sometimes even bureaucracy has lessons to teach.
Available at 10AM on Substack.
👉 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#taoteching #philosophy #spirituality #dailyreflection #ouroboros
The ouroboros turns inward, and sometimes even bureaucracy has lessons to teach.
Available at 10AM on Substack.
👉 wittgensteinsmonster.substack.com
#taoteching #philosophy #spirituality #dailyreflection #ouroboros
Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe.
A new prologue to The Mirror Cycle — The Ninth Fracture, Scholium on the Ninth Fracture, and Machine Log of the Ninth Recursion.
Available today at 11 AM (EST) on […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Recovered from the Archive of the Ninth Universe.
A new prologue to The Mirror Cycle — The Ninth Fracture, Scholium on the Ninth Fracture, and Machine Log of the Ninth Recursion.
Available today at 11 AM (EST) on […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
On ecological repentance, moral renewal, and the trembling of the earth
Yesterday’s reflection is now live.
From Nahum’s trembling earth to Joshua’s obedience to Proverbs’ gentleness, this one calls us to coalesce — to […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
On ecological repentance, moral renewal, and the trembling of the earth
Yesterday’s reflection is now live.
From Nahum’s trembling earth to Joshua’s obedience to Proverbs’ gentleness, this one calls us to coalesce — to […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Morgan le Fay transformed from a queen,
To something darker, something unseen.
In myth she was curious, virtuous, bright—
But later pens only wanted to fright.
That priestess of old, half-druid, half-divine,
Whom knights bore Arthur to in […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Morgan le Fay transformed from a queen,
To something darker, something unseen.
In myth she was curious, virtuous, bright—
But later pens only wanted to fright.
That priestess of old, half-druid, half-divine,
Whom knights bore Arthur to in […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
It’s peaceful, almost eternal.
But it made me wonder:
At our current pace, how long until we kill all the bees? 🐝🌍
It’s peaceful, almost eternal.
But it made me wonder:
At our current pace, how long until we kill all the bees? 🐝🌍
(Image: “Shiva as Lord of the Dance,” ca. 11th century, Tamil Nadu — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain)
(Image: “Shiva as Lord of the Dance,” ca. 11th century, Tamil Nadu — The Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain)
Om Namah Shivaya.
I bow to the self that survives the storm.
To the fire that burns without destroying.
To the silence that hums beneath noise.
I breathe in what is real, I […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Om Namah Shivaya.
I bow to the self that survives the storm.
To the fire that burns without destroying.
To the silence that hums beneath noise.
I breathe in what is real, I […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
“I AM” vs. “I WILL BE” — on names, endurance, and the divine verb to be.
Sound & Sip: Fire’s Highway — Japandroids
🕔 New reflection arrives at 5PM […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
“I AM” vs. “I WILL BE” — on names, endurance, and the divine verb to be.
Sound & Sip: Fire’s Highway — Japandroids
🕔 New reflection arrives at 5PM […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Harmony and Hierarchy — on humility, chain of command, and the dog who barked at his reflection.
Sound & Sip: Common — “Cold Blooded.”
👉 Read at 10:00 AM […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
Harmony and Hierarchy — on humility, chain of command, and the dog who barked at his reflection.
Sound & Sip: Common — “Cold Blooded.”
👉 Read at 10:00 AM […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
“Virtue isn’t what we claim — it’s what we live.”
A reflection on authenticity, Aristotle’s golden mean, and the Daoist true form that needs no striving.
🌅 Available October 15th, 2025 at 10 AM ET
✨ Read […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]
“Virtue isn’t what we claim — it’s what we live.”
A reflection on authenticity, Aristotle’s golden mean, and the Daoist true form that needs no striving.
🌅 Available October 15th, 2025 at 10 AM ET
✨ Read […]
[Original post on mastodon.social]