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Silvestre Baggio woke up to the sharp beeping of an alarm clock. It’s 7:00 a.m. on a Wednesday, so today he’ll eat French toast with…

11 min readMay 3, 2023

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Expendable Lives

BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP-BEEP

10 min readOct 18, 2022

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axel icazbalceta

Pilate’s Beatitudes

Sing to me, O Muse, of the Broken People.

6 min readMar 8, 2022

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Edginess as the Result of an Ideological State Apparatus: An Analysis of “Daria”

“As far as I can make out, ‘edgy’ occurs when middle-brow, middle-aged profiteers are looking to suck the energy — not to mention the…

5 min readSep 27, 2021

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De 8Chane

Technological advancements impact culture as much as culture impacts those technological advancements. The internet has been the greatest…

4 min readAug 30, 2021

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Thank You, Daniel Sloss

During a fall evening of my sophomore year while I waited for my mother to pick me up from school, I experienced the most important half…

3 min readJul 28, 2021

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The Eternal Struggle

“Happiness was never important. The problem is that we don’t know what we really want. What makes us happy is not to get what we want. But…

3 min readJun 13, 2021

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The Anti-Capitalist Potential of r/WallStreetBets

The debacle a few months ago between the good people of r/WallStreetBets and the good people at Melvin Capital was a wonderful spectacle to…

2 min readMay 27, 2021

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The Case for Perpetual Warfare: A Satire

NB: The inspiration for and central idea of this satirical piece comes from a synthesis of Greg Guevara’s song “I Wanna Die in a War” and…

3 min readMay 27, 2021

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Who Will Rule the Future?

There is a general theory that social media will lead to some form of destruction of our society. That in one way or another, social media…

2 min readMay 25, 2021

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axel icazbalceta

axel icazbalceta

if i think some of my thoughts are worth telling complete strangers, they’ll end up on here eventually. @axel.xvi on instagram

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