Tag: writer in manila

• Go Fake Yourself

  The more I think about pinning down who the “authentic self” is, the more I question that it even exists.

  Evan Tan

  December 6, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, rambling, reflections

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• “The Universe is Having a Wank”: Teleological Explorations, By Way of Birthdays

  There’s nothing that drives you further down into introspection like the waning high of your birthday that’s almost about to end (except probably a close brush with death, a bus speeding at 100 kilometers per hour barely colliding with the car you’re in at a highway—but that’s another story.)

  Evan Tan

  October 3, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, rambling, reflections, Uncategorized

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• What If Everything Will Have Always Been Us

  As I went to bed and fell asleep, I started dreaming about dying, and I thought about how I slowly started to unravel, like fabric that had started to fray and were now becoming threads of different colors again.

  Evan Tan

  May 31, 2020

  metaphysics, personal life, philosophy, reflections

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• Why People Would Rather Get Covid-19: Chronicles During the Covid-19 Community Quarantine

  A few days ago, my friend Nancy and I were talking about how we’re all adjusting to this new normal (a term used to exhaustion that it is already grating on my ears), as we carried our groceries back to our condos. Yes, we were lucky–alive and well, not yet driven to the brink of…

  Evan Tan

  April 11, 2020

  personal life, Uncategorized, world events

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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

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• For the Privileged, a Performance of the Poor

  The real enemy is the invisible one that never shows its face: the system that creates these tensions between peoples of different classes.

  Evan Tan

  August 19, 2019

  film, personal life, reflections, Uncategorized

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