philosophy

  • If Plato Watched Love Island

    A philosophical inquiry into fake tan, fire pits, and the fever dream of televised desire. By Brian S. Brijbag, Esq. It’s not that Plato would have liked Love Island.It’s that he would have understood it.Because beneath the veneers of lip filler and neon mesh lies an eternal truth: We do not love the person – we love being chosen

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  • In Praise of Contradictions: Wearing a Tie, Quoting Foucault

    A meditation on holding professional gravity and creative chaos in the same breath I wore a tie to a deposition this morning and quoted Foucault to my kid at lunch. Both acts felt subversive. Let’s begin with the obvious: contradiction is not a flaw in the system. It is the system. I’m a trial lawyer who writes

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  • In Praise of Contradictions: Being a Trial Lawyer and a Theatrical Nerd

    By Brian S. Brijbag, Esq. I’ve stood in courtrooms, neck deep in depositions, cross-examinations, and medical exhibits — building arguments on logic, precedent, and pain. And I’ve also stood on stage in a community theater, wearing eyeliner and shouting about cursed pies and funeral rehearsals for divine absences. This used to confuse people.Honestly, it used

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