Kris J. Simpson

Can Knowledge free us from suffering? Photo by Greg Rakozy “Nihilism stands at the door: whence comes this uncanniest of all guests?” — The Will to Power Fredrick Nietzsche did not endorse nihilism; rather, he cautioned that it would represent the inevitable and tragic consequence of the modern epoch following the “ death of God” — a metaphor denoting the collapse of enduring meaning-making traditions that historically underpinned the foundations of our civilizations. Albert Camus, a...

Why Narcissus Needed a Camera Instead of a Mirror Exploring the city of Toronto! The decision came down from the school principal, and although I had seen it coming since I had become such a liability, I was still disappointed. The rest of my grade 8 classmates would be off to the Zoo for the last school trip of the year, but I would be forced to stay behind because of past, undeniable bad behaviour. My conduct during a school trip to Ottawa earlier that year turned what was intended to be a...

Deciphering Signal from Noise—Love from Fear Photo by Nicolas Houdayer You might say I was righteously scared into my curiosity and passion for biology, since my science teacher, Mr. Gibson, was able to frighten a 12-year-old boy who had been working on his elementary school rap sheet for a few years at that point, gaining the attention of every teacher at the school by spending countless hours in the principal’s office. Mr. Gibson was a middle-aged man with thick, curly light-brown hair...