Darien Brown

Saving the world can only begin by embracing the people who inhabit it. Anything else is an illusion or a lie. If you are reading this: I love you.

Our future is being constructed around us by forces, both political and technological, that fear us, that are disgusted by us, and that view us with distrust and contempt.

Misanthropy is also the dark heart of the technologies we are increasingly inviting into our homes and communities— surveillance tech we don’t really own or control keeps us ‘safe’ from our own neighbors.

The zeitgeist of our age is misanthropy. It is the most poisonous false friend, and you are not special for indulging in it; it is shared by the people whom you hold in contempt.

Mania is a helluva drug.

Feed the birds.

I wish I’d written this three years ago. medium.com/@darien_brown/i-w…

Physicians are basically broken computers.

My 3 year old niece designed a cake for me.

My humble contribution to the how-many-systemic-and-moral-failures-can-be-captured-in-a-single-photo contest.

I feel like Cohen is Stevie from Eastbound and Down.

Reading Tolstoy’s ‘The Kingdom if God is Within You’ and seeing its prescience provides a powerful reminder that 125 years is only 1.5 human lifetimes.

“Sorry my party was a rager daddy. But I just like ragers.” -Josie, age 3

A criminal takedown of AMI/National Enquirer AND Bezos dick pics. Also snow. Bonus Christmas!

.@erinscafe oh shit, I don’t know how to use twitter anymore. How can I make this connected to other tweets?

If there’s one thing we’ve learned here in America, there isn’t a policy or law on the books that can’t be weaponized against its original intent.

When you’re too sophisticated for malt liquor.