Category: pop culture

• Too Fast, Too Paris

  There’s comfort to not being terrorized by the thought that one’s action or inaction contributes to an inevitable future at the mercy of eventual degeneration.

  Evan Tan

  June 30, 2022

  art, books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, reflections, travel

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• Am I Too Old to Enjoy This?

  The adult in me thinks that she is very juvenile and naive, and I wonder if I’m just too jaded to enjoy how whimsical she is, how her whole world seemed to be rose-colored and bright.

  Evan Tan

  September 21, 2021

  art, current events, film, media, personal life, pop culture, rambling, reflections

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• Whose Adobo is Authentic, Anyway?

  Will gatekeeping culture and calling out cultural appropriation bring justice? Or is it going to kill the very thing it wants to protect?

  Evan Tan

  July 27, 2021

  current events, media, personal life, pop culture, rambling, reflections, Uncategorized, vegan

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• The End of the F***ing Year

  To say that 2020 has been a maddening year would be the biggest understatement ever.

  Evan Tan

  December 22, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, pop culture, rambling, reflections, travel, world events

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• To See Clearly, Don’t Shy Away from Conflict: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  Recently, I was in a heated Twitter debate about how people who had animal companions but were not vegan were essentially in a master-slave relationship. While some of my friends argued with me directly, some chose not to reply and instead resorted to subtweets and snarky, shady remarks. Those who did the latter did not…

  Evan Tan

  May 17, 2020

  personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, vegan

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• Suffering is a Cookie: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  I suffer because I believe that I deserve that cookie. But I also know that eating that cookie comes with consequences.

  Evan Tan

  March 22, 2020

  personal life, philosophy, pop culture, rambling, reflections, vegan

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• Solidarity or Shit: Chronicles During the COVID-19 Community Quarantine

  The COVID-19 pandemic has further exposed the entrenched inequalities in our society. Already we’re seeing how the less privileged are made to choose between dying from hunger or dying from the disease, while the rich continue to believe that these people are merely being stubborn–lacking the discipline that is demanded by this enhanced community quarantine…

  Evan Tan

  March 21, 2020

  film, gay, personal life, pop culture, reflections, vegan

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• Is There Really A Self? (& 10 PM Explorations of Being)

  What if, as Plato said in his allegory of the cave, we only see shadows of reality, and that is because of the frailty that is our humanity?

  Evan Tan

  February 4, 2020

  books, personal life, philosophy, pop culture, reflections

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