Emma Griffin
@ez_greezy
Emma Griffin
It is a great mistake to confuse physical strength, dominance, violence, vulgarity, or brutality with masculinity. Masculinity is emotional stability, undaunted integrity, quiet courage, humility, generosity, and capacity for enduring love, or it is nothing.
Dee Hock • Autobiography of a Restless Mind: Reflections on the Human Condition Volume 1
The overwhelming accessibility and cornucopia of information has pulverized our capacity for critical thinking, instant gratification wearing away a previous patience to attempt to seek out answers for ourselves. If we truly believe that the internet can provide us with a streamlined instruction manual for life’s answers, if we blindly trust a... See more
A week or so ago, I came across a viral tweet (that I unfortunately cannot find despite scrolling) of a Tiktok screenshot in which a girl is advising people to use ChatGPT to send messages to crushes. You can adjust the tone too, she captions, and I immediately cringed upon seeing it. The fact that we have begun depending on nonhuman avenues for... See more
History often presents itself as grand, sweeping narratives—wars, revolutions, prominent figures that reshaped the world. But the tiny, easily missed fragments of peoples everyday life holds a different truth than what we’re used to seeing. In some ways, the search for these details feels like reaching back in time and keeping those voices from
... See morethedigitalmeadow.substack.com • Why Do We Crave Useless Knowledge?
Miniminuteman’s outro to his Pompeii video:
... See moreWhile all of these are reasons that this story matters,I believe that there is one reason that eclipses all of them, and that is that it tries to honor the true story of this event. It is very easy for us to look at these plaster casts like they're some kind of artifact, a sculpture or a reproduction that