Author: Kamiel Choi

I am a thinker and a poet born in 1979 and I make ideas dance.
Why does money corrupt?

So why does it? If you have it in abundance, it fails to give meaning in the obvious ways it does when we need it to meet our basic needs. The thought that the result of our endeavour – the amount on our bank account – is subject to inevitable inflation of meaning, is hard to bear.

So we explore other pathways: consumption of expensive goods and services, and comparison to other people’s “wealth”.

This is an impulse that doesn’t care about the consequences. Think environmental and social inequality. In other words: it corrupts.

Activism

“Language is my whore, my mistress, my wife, my pen-friend, my check-out girl. Language is a complimentary moist lemon-scented cleansing square or handy freshen-up wipette. Language is the breath of God, the dew on a fresh apple, it’s the soft rain of dust that falls into a shaft of morning sun when you pull from …

The good life

I’m trippin’

on the side of the road

the road of the free

Poetry

A country is a story to structure collective pride.

The good life

The hallmark of being human is that we can carry a story within us that aspires to more than our own pleasure, to a goal beyond the satisfaction of what we momentarily desire

Activism

The best of lies make up the unstable truth for our unstable times

Activism

If you see a concrete block of 1000 kg you don’t try to lift it up. It would be silly or even dangerous to try.

Who knows their mental equivalent of that 1000 kg concrete block?

The good life