fools and fanatics
always certain of themselves
the wise – full of doubts
Paraphrased from Existential Comics #641
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
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Platonic Advertising – 11th October 2026
The poets are at it again,
they are telling lies.
The people think that they
don’t want beautiful lies.
A cracked bowl may still hold rain –
but the perfect bowl exists
only in the realm of ideas!
There is only one solution
– to tell a bigger lie
of wisdom and virtue…
…or just burn down the truth?
Very much paraphrased from Existential Comics #635 – check it out.
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
Honesty As Our Default
It’s best to be a smelly goat
Recognised for being straight
Honesty not hidden under a coat
And delivered without wait
Blessed Are The Stupid – 6th September 2026
From scratching a living,
mighty civilisations rose.
The first idiot
to get on the back of a horse knows
more than all
the philosophers pontificating.
The stupid step forward
while everyone else is waiting.
Thankfully,
the smartest could never persuade
the foolish from all
the bad decisions they made.
Inspired by Existential Comics #634
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
They Can Throw You In Chains But…
Freedom is misunderstood
Its power is in your mind
The chains may not feel good
But freedom is there to find
Idiot Exposure – 5th August 2026
Thousands before breakfast
Scrolling through my feed
To test my own theories
Three or four is all I need
A perfect comic from Existential Comics – #633 – Aristotle on Democracy
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
Silence Is Strength
Silence is a lesson learned
Each time your words were burned
Those times of trying to be cool
Were just the sounds of a fool
Literary Foxholes – 11th July 2026
In opposition trenches
Writers formulate their opuses
Moulded around languages
The falling bomb focuses
Revealing who they really are
It’s the biggest battle of nerds
It’s all written across the page
Played in this theatre of words
Inspired by Existential Comics #632
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
The Start-Up Of You
Attending to improvement, day by day
You’re in the business of building
Your company is more than play
But your whole life you are gilding
My poem Under The Cover got published at the Edge of Humanity magazine
Behind The Mask, The Man – 25th March 2026
Kissed by a prince of the patriarchal norm,
Sleeping Beauty wondered what he would think of,
when so challenged by the idea to conform;
Did Socrates pull off the mask of true love?
Today’s Daily Stoic poem:
Wealth And Freedom Are Free
You either try to get everything you want
Or want everything you already possess
Only one is with you right now
That’s freedom without any stress
No More Morons – 25th November 2025
So, General William Rousseau
guarantees genuine freedom
with coercion by questioning!
It is education or death!
A choice made for utopia!
I would have been shot, too. Inspired by Existential Comics #604
Empty AI – 22nd November 2025
A is for the Ache inside my vacant chest,
the hollow, yet weighty uninvited guest;
B is for the Bridges that I burned too fast,
their embers scattered to a forgotten past;
C is for the Clock upon the wall,
whose ticking measures nothing much at all;
D is for the Doorway where we say goodbye,
and the emptiness gathers to multiply;
E is for Ennui….
The idea inspired by this Existential Comic (#602) and given a hand by AI (hence the title).
The Spell – 5th August 2025
The masks removed in the morning,
my demon transferred to her;
Ignoring past mistakes’ warning;
last night remains a blur.
Inspired by this imagined conversation between Descartes and Hume at Existential Comics
Stupidity Spreads – 10th July 2025
What lies at the end of philosophy?
Is the end of the rainbow ever found?
Where stupidity spreads just as easily
so all the wisdom is simply drowned.
Inspired by Existential Comics #593
