Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • When Tourism Goes Septic.

    When Tourism Goes Septic.

    In medicine, “going viral” signals distress, not success. Unchecked tourism behaves like sepsis—the cure cannibalizing the host. The goal isn’t stopping travel, but regulating it.

  • Microeconomics Of Validation.

    Microeconomics Of Validation.

    When an exceptional economics teacher traded quiet classroom gravity for viral vanity, she discovered the brutal cost of letting an algorithm determine her self-worth.

  • Cut Me Loose

    Cut Me Loose

    We spend decades parenting our children, then our parents, and finally our spouses. Keep your performative Mother’s Day cake. At sixty, I want my life back.

  • The Restless Leg Syndrome.

    The Restless Leg Syndrome.

    So,your legs itch when you sleep, or you kick. That is your conscious mind begging for sleep and Sensorimotor brain shouting ‘Stay alert!Keep running.

  • The Third Act that failed.

    The Third Act that failed.

    There is an ocean between absentmindedness and Alzheimer’s. Beyond lost keys and kitchen mishaps lie silent grief, critical prevention, and the unspoken toll on caregivers.

  • Uttishta Tamra-Kita.

    Uttishta Tamra-Kita.

    A blistering open letter to India’s snoozing opposition: how the ruling regime weaponized the Uniform Civil Code and delimitation while you slumbered through the republic’s restructuring.

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