Author: Collin Cooper

  • Pop Stoicism & Digital Romanticism

    Pop Stoicism & Digital Romanticism

    Pop Stoicism In “The Art of Living”, Epictetus makes the Stoic argument that we must accept the inevitable that happens within our lives and that without this we will end in despair. This Stoic ideal is upheld by millions today who have come under the sway of “pop philosophy” and Instagram quotes from Marcus Aurelius.…

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  • An Interview with Clemenza of “The Meat Mafia”

    An Interview with Clemenza of “The Meat Mafia”

    Clemenza is the Co-Founder of “The Meat Mafia” and Co-Host of “The Meat Mafia Podcast”. He has over 30 thousand Twitter followers and is one of the leading people in the world today working to bring back an ancestral, meat-based diet. I had the chance to meet him back in January 2022 on Twitter, and…

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  • Meeting Jordan Peterson

    Meeting Jordan Peterson

    Some of the best experiences in life take time to ferment and mature in our minds before they can be distilled to a traveler. In April of this year, I had the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to meet one of the people I look up to the most, Jordan Peterson. November of 2021 was a big month.…

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  • An Interview with Justin Egliskis

    An Interview with Justin Egliskis

    Since Justin Egliskis became a contributing author to this blog, we did an interview with him so you all can get to know a little bit of the person behind the name. #1 Where did you grow up, and how has that shaped your outlook on life and career? I was raised in Torrington, Connecticut,…

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  • An Interview With Mark Vega

    An Interview With Mark Vega

    My name is Mark Vega aka Darkened_m00d. I am a Dark Artist from Queens New York that loves playing around with colors and visual glitch textures. Pixel sorting and glitches fly in the face of perfection, so much of social media is centered around perfection that I like to break things up. I also like…

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  • An Interview With Revival Aesthetica

    An Interview With Revival Aesthetica

    Revival Aesthetica is an American-Canadian author, life coach, content creator, and entrepreneur. He is the founder of the Revival Aesthetica media page and blog. Alongside this, he is also a university student and graphic designer. He is fluent in English and Arabic, and in his free time likes to exercise, watch documentaries, and create all…

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  • The Pursuit Of Vanity

    The Pursuit Of Vanity

    The pursuit of pleasurable vanity is the sign of the intellectual lifestyle and without such pursuits, the mind commits suicide. There is no secular comfort for suffering where there is no vanity. I speak of the world under the sun. The artist tears open a wound so many times and they never allow the wounds…

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  • Cultural Demons

    Cultural Demons

    Lack Of Societal Conception You have no idea what people are dealing with as you walk past hundreds of faces per day. When it comes down to it, the white-collar executive and the blue-collar laborer are both humans. It is often forgotten that people are human in a society so focused on production and output.…

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  • The Rise Of Neo-Punk Culture

    The Rise Of Neo-Punk Culture

    “No sleep, in CaliforniaCause the hills have eyes and they’re looking for youThey’re right around the cornerI’ve been, tryna figure my life, I stay insideForever” “Hills Have Eyes” POORSTACY Backstory With the rise of cultural icons like the drummer of blink-182 Travis Barker, who recently established the DTA record label back in 2020, culture has…

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  • The Case for Heaven, A Movie Review

    The Case for Heaven, A Movie Review

    Release Date and Background The Case for Heaven Movie was released on April 4th, 2022, and plays in select theatres till the 6th. A documentary-style adaption of the bestselling book by author Lee Strobel, it was a unique production focused on how one can truly believe in the existence of the afterlife. I have previously…

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