For as long as some have been doing, others have been criticizing. Unfortunately, one of the downsides of life as social animals is that no matter what we do, there will always be someone waiting to give their two-cents. Somewhere along the way giving your two-cents became an actual profession…

Less and less seems to simply happen. Today, the only times we ever hear about things like chance encounters, meetings, and other spontaneous events, are from grandparents or in old movies. It has become extremely rare to hear of two strangers meeting by chance at a library or coffee shop…

The toilet seat’s default position is not down. In movies, TV shows, and real life there is often this on-going argument between men and women, usually co-habitants, about the toilet seat being placed down. The dynamic usually consists of a feisty, over-bearing wife reminding her moping, apathetic husband in front…

The renowned political theorist and activist, Hannah Arendt, once argued that the extreme political issues we now face throughout the Western World were rooted in our transition from “Political Man” to “Economic Man”. What she meant by this was that, with the progression of industrialization, our priorities had switched from…

Vacations and holidays are generally thought of as periods of leisure and relaxation in one’s life. Having put in countless difficult and exhausting hours in at work, we are delighted at the idea of warm weather, the beach, limitless alcohol, and other vices we would not ordinarily be able to…

Owning a dog or a cat seems to be the last step for most middle-class Westerners before their nuclear families are complete. It is perhaps one of the most normal things a person can do in this day and age, practically the capstone to being an Average Joe. After all…

Beginning sometime around 2014 there has been an invasion of self-help gurus in Western culture, who have since nestled themselves comfortably into the Western psyche. …

There was a recent death in the family of a new colleague, and the team was at a loss for how best to show their sympathies. Everyone took their turns expressing their condolences, saying how sad they were to hear the news and that they were there if she needed…

Take a look at the governments and leaders of any of the world’s countries today (except maybe Vladimir Putin) and you will see legions of drab, dreary looking individuals all wearing the same grey suits, regurgitating the same false promises to the public as their predecessors. This universal depiction of…