We’ve got something a bit different today everyone, the first ever guest article on ThinkInPeach. Written by a friend of mine, Graeme Smith, I’m excited to share this, so – without further ado – let’s get into it. This is not a man cave, Keith… It’s called a workshop Guest article by Graeme Smith from THISISGRAEME. I like to make stuff. I’m a self-taught leatherworker and more recently I’ve started working with bone as well. …
All societies are premised on some kind of narrative; a story which works to push and promote certain factions’ power. Whether beliefs about equality in Stalinist Russia propping up a bureaucratic elite, or dehumanising ethnic groups prior to slavery’s abolishment in America, all cultures have these purposeful stories. Where Western arrogance creeps in is seeing ours as different. Much of our corner of Twitter’s discourse is – either consciously or unconsciously – railing against these…
In both the offline and online world, turmoil is the emergent theme of this century. From cheap drone technology to DDOS attacks; from Brexit to Trump’s election; from Antifa to right-wing trolls, disruption is endemic within modern life. Technology has changed the terms we play on, prompting this upheaval. Birth Control has disrupted the natural tide of sexuality, cars have disrupted the natural movement of the body and social media has disrupted our natural means…
In the past, when I was an ardent atheist, I regularly uttered the phrase ‘I believe in the power of The Universe.’ I look back on this now with new eyes and realise this declaration is an act of faith. Yet if you had asked me “do you believe in a ‘higher power?’” I would have scoffed at such foolishness. This is a pretty common pattern of thinking in modern life, yet it is entirely…
Something has been growing inside me, bubbling away in my subconscious, for a little while now. I’ve been unaware that I’d been mulling it over, but yesterday the insight broke surface and popped into my conscious mind. What was it? The lack of importance the Western world attaches to symbolism. This trend of trivialising symbolism is linked to the demise of faith and pre-eminence of rationality within our culture; both of which I discuss here.…
“Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don’t need.” Tyler Durden, Fight Club I recently re-watched Fight Club – a great book which the film does a fantastic job of representing – and was, once again, affected by the poignancy of the themes within it. Dark and destructive with a penchant for mayhem, it strikes a chord with a certain type of man. What is…