Archive - Standard Error

March 2025

Reflections on the 2025 Spring Festival Gala

Propaganda is easy to dismiss when it's ham-fisted. But what about when it's constructed...quite well?

Mar 22 •

Casey Juanxi Li

February 2025

A Taoist lens on pornography

"If you want to get rid of something, you must first allow it to flourish"

Feb 13 •

Casey Juanxi Li

January 2025

When you want a husband, but not a relationship

Women's romance and erotica is simply objectification of a different kind

Jan 27 •

Casey Juanxi Li

December 2024

November 2024

What's the right amount of suffering?

Chinese culture loves morality tales about the necessity of suffering. In the West, we don't even like to acknowledge its existence

Nov 28, 2024 •

Casey Juanxi Li

The whore-ish nature of antidepressants

At risk of becoming one of Brave New World's soma-snorters, it might still be one way to solve a problem

Nov 28, 2024 •

Casey Juanxi Li

The DSM-5 is a misunderstanding of mental health

"Personality disorders" are less like illnesses, and more like poorly designed machines

Nov 24, 2024 •

Casey Juanxi Li

Romance is often just the absence of reality

And in particular, the ugly parts of it

Nov 11, 2024 •

Casey Juanxi Li

How do you live in a world that rewards psychopaths?

When "fuck this noise" starts to make more sense than doing the sensible thing, people will do wild shit - like electing Trump, again

Nov 7, 2024 •

Casey Juanxi Li

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