People on the internet are assholes. No really. If you’ve ever scrolled through a politically oriented twitter thread or a Facebook post long enough, you’ll come across some seriously impressive spectacles of offensive language. If people sat next to one another in a room, I can guarantee there is absolutely no conceivable way that we would speak to one another the way we do online without punches being thrown.

This is ultimately because digital communication removes all the real-world consequences of speech. All of the regular evolutionary social stuff that we’ve evolved to keeps us in line, such as; facial…

As of today: Saturday the 4th of January, bushfires have been raging across the east coast of Australia since mid-August.

Even from hundreds of kilometres away, residents of Australia are blanketed in smoke that has made air quality the equivalent of smoking 37 cigarettes a day, far worse than that of New Delhi (the world's most polluted city). To shine a light on how poor the air quality has become: an elderly woman died yesterday at Canberra Airport after stepping off a plane and going into full respiratory arrest due to the putrid smoke blanketing the nation’s capital.

For the…

Let’s begin this article with one very simple point:

From both an ecological and an ethical perspective, going completely plant-based is far superior to eating meat.

However, the critical and undermining fault of this entire documentary lies in its intense focus on the nutritional and personal aspect of a plant-based diet, rather than the ethical or ecological aspect. By taking this perspective, James Cameron and the production team are forced into undertaking some “alternative fact” work.

The documentary follows the journey of former MMA fighter, James Wilks on his journey into the world of plant-based nutrition. Throughout the documentary, we…

Bob Dylan is without a doubt one of the creative world’s most purposefully mysterious and least understood characters. He isn’t merely a good musician or a generous benefactor of folk rock. Dylan is a prophet of metaphor and a creative movement in and of himself. Listening to his lyrics is like having some sort of construction get carried out in your brain, heaps of scaffolding, a bit of chaos and lots of noise but ultimately it leaves something better in its place.

Born Robert Zimmerman in Duluth, Minnesota 1941 and was raised in a small Jewish community. His father owned…

This year is only 3 months old and already it has bestowed us with a fresh lineup of outrage worthy events that have plastered themselves across every social media platform available to us.

I’m talking about the two internet sensations that have become impossible not to see for anyone with a smartphone and an internet connection.

The first major incident that really generated some outrage thus far has been the infamous Gillette Ad, which has had the internet awash for days with the relentless, scathing opinions of social media pundits both decrying and supporting Gillette’s position on toxic masculinity. …

First thing’s first. I am quite sincerely: not a fan of Donald Trump. I don’t like his politics, I can’t say I have an affinity for his personality nor do I see the slew of lawsuits and other misdemeanors that cloud his past as anything that can be glossed over without harsh criticism. I am no closet conservative. With this being said, I am a very big fan of effective criticism. And the style of criticism that is so often being curated by both sides of the political compass, but more often from the left-leaning, liberal media is the polar…

It is impressively easy to generate scepticism about the world around us, and inject doubt into almost every aspect of what we perceive and thus believe to be the external world. However, it is of utmost importance that we resolve what Descartes saw as the: “disease of scepticism” which, if uncontrolled or unanswered, threatens to upheave the very foundations of knowledge. The disease of scepticism for Descartes was the corkscrew of doubt that the incessant questioning of reality would lead us into.

It threatens to do so because our perception based beliefs are indeed subject to perfectly valid sceptical worries…

After watching the mayhem of Gillette’s new advertisement unfold in the hours following its release, it calls to question how such a seemingly positive message was received so poorly on the internet?

I nearly shrugged it off as some sort of anomaly where trolls had ransacked the comments section across a variety of platforms and discoloured the underlying message of the video. But after I watched the clip a couple of times, I wasn’t too hard pressed identifying the fundamental reasons as to why this ad became so viral for all of the wrong reasons. The first being;

People do not want to be instructed on morality by corporations that sell consumer goods.

Advertising is…