Love Fast

Love Is Not About Finding ‘The One’

Jack Maden | Philosophy Break | 14th April 2025

Erich Fromm on love. “One of our most insidious misconceptions is that success or failure in love hinges entirely on the qualities of a prospective partner. We think that love is the problem of an object, not of a faculty. We browse people like products on a personality market. We’d do better if we approached love not like a once-in-a-lifetime transaction, but like an art, the mastery of which takes work” (1,900 words)

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Everything Is Fast

Luke Burgis | 30th March 2025

Reflections on life, technology and the soul in the present. Acedia is the malaise of our times, often translated as “sloth”, though the experience of it feels like the opposite. We are all struggling with speed because we live in a global village. In this unhealthy restlessness, even escapes are “high pressure affairs with a ticking clock”. “Everything is fast, so we feel we must be moving fast too — at all times” (2,200 words)