Roy G. Biv is a trained social scientist and data engineer, living a parallel life as a creative writer and spoken word poet. His work fuses philosophy with social satire. Musing in cultural criticism and inner architectures, he relatably challenges readers to examine not only who they are, but how the world shapes the way they think, connect, and feel.
Flaws are gorgeous.
Pride is a wall-to-wall projection of our deepest and darkest. It comes in many forms: indifference, feigned innocence, defensiveness, moral superiority, victim-blaming, and shaming. Because pride is just shame turned inside out. Each a branch of the same tree, pride is ego revealed, and shame is ego concealed. In the shadows of this shame lies a very vulnerable truth. Perhaps our most personal truth... one we want to bury and keep to the self. Because sometimes... it's the only way to survive.