philosophy
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There is a peculiar confidence that arrives with consensus. Once a winner is announced, something subtle shifts. Conversation tightens. Opinions harden. People begin speaking not about what they experienced, but about what is now established. The work has been named, categorized, filed. This is the moment criticism quietly exits the room. Consensus feels like understanding because…
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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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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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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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