Category : Social

The Definition of Insanity

  Insanity is said to be the act of repeating the same action and expecting a different outcome. If that is the case then we the Lebanese still in Lebanon deserve an achievement award for mastering it.   Lebanon has always been a complicated creation. Complicated in its inception and even more convoluted in its peacock rules for maintenance. Granted, […]

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Love in the Time of Tinder & Corona

Tinder Love

I’m a big softy for romanticism. So naturally when i heard that it was making a strong comeback in 2020 i immediately donned the proper apparel to write about it. I opened my laptop and sat in my favorite boxers. The cyber rumor mill has it that true love can be found online in these times of quarantine and social […]

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The sound of social media silence

René Descartes famously said, ‘I think, therefor i am’ Fortunately for him he didn’t bear witness to the sea of online thoughts in 2020 on social medias or else he would have promptly reconsidered all this. When the internet first appeared in prehistoric 90s it seemed interesting enough. Sharing ideas by bloggers, programmers, academics and cyber-web rebels. A few online […]

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Blogs, Sand Castles of Disappointment

It’s Easter, a quite fitting time for resurrections. I wrote this article some years ago to explain why i didn’t publish as much anymore. I just didn’t feel like it. Clearly i didn’t gauge properly how much i didn’t feel like it, because i changed my mind and promptly unpublished it. Felt there was no point, no audience. To some […]

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Top online commenter types

  Whenever an article or blog post is published online a bevy of replies spawns out of nowhere. But regardless from where they pop up, they usually fall into a few defined groups. A small trip to the comments section of youtube will expose you to the wonders of the human condition all condensed in one place in no time. […]

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One day we’ll have an Independence Day

  I usually write satire. But i wont this time. I’ll handle this topic differently for a change. So today we celebrate in Lebanon our 2014 Independence Day. While this occasion has become synonymous locally with either apathy, robotic political milking and/or joking disdain, it actually had its good roots at one point. So what is Independence Day in general […]

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