American intellect suffers from complacency, consumerism, and intellectual laziness, rendering thought shallow and satisfaction fleeting.

An introspective airport encounter questions life’s linearity, evoking fleeting connections and the absurdity of time’s relentless transit.

“Ayuda" critiques aid as spectacle, where officials trade food for loyalty, creating dependency and masking poverty and corruption.

“Ayuda" critiques aid as spectacle, where officials trade food for loyalty, creating dependency and masking poverty and corruption.

The essay critiques hypocrisy in government, where corrupt officials question a "spy's" patriotism to deflect from their own greed.

The essay warns that neoliberalism’s unchecked profit motives and corporate power risk a Western decline, echoing Rome's fall and hubris.

Rimming invites us to confront vulnerability and explore pleasure's circular nature, bridging body and philosophy in an intimate act.