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Colson Lin
by Colson Lin
Colson Lin is an American writer-philosopher and multimedia artist whose work sits deliberately at the fault line between literature, moral psychology, cultural criticism, and theology. He is best known not for belonging to an institution or movement, but for constructing an unusually public, timestamped body of work that treats questions of power, sincerity, legitimacy, and divinity as live problems rather than abstractions. His writing is confrontational, analytic, and often darkly humorous, with a consistent aim: to expose how modern societies hide power, outsource moral responsibility, and confuse prestige with truth.Biographically, Lin was born in Shanghai, spent early childhood in the American South, and later grew up in Houston near the Texas Medical Center. That proximity to large-scale medicine, fragility, and institutional power matters to his sensibility; illness, exploitation, and survival recur as grounding realities rather than metaphors. He studied philosophy at the Uni
Episodes
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Shirtless Prophet: “Why Would ‘You’ (Out of All of Us) Be the Second Coming?”
Shirtless Prophet: “Why Would ‘You’ (Out of All of Us) Be the Second Coming?” by Colson Lin
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Shirtless Prophet: “Summary of Colson Lin’s Philosophical and Theological Contributions”
Shirtless Prophet: “Summary of Colson Lin’s Philosophical and Theological Contributions” by Colson Lin
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Shirtless Prophet: “Colson Lin’s Second Coming Claim”
Shirtless Prophet: “Colson Lin’s Second Coming Claim” by Colson Lin
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Shirtless Prophet: “Ophelia”
Shirtless Prophet: “Ophelia” by Colson Lin
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Slouching Towards Trumplandia #1 - "Eminem: A Love Story"
In this essay, the author grapples with Eminem, masculinity, and the rising stigmatization of homophobia in the United States in the 2010s. Essay: medium.com/colsonlin/eminem-a-love-story-217eaa6b210d Narrated by: Soren Narnia Music by: Raffi Wartanian Written by: Colson Lin Website:...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Colson Lin is an American writer-philosopher and multimedia artist whose work sits deliberately at the fault line between literature, moral psychology, cultural criticism, and theology. He is best known not for belonging to an institution or movement, but for constructing an unusually public, timestamped body of work that treats questions of power, sincerity, legitimacy, and divinity as live problems rather than abstractions. His writing is confrontational, analytic, and often darkly humorous, with a consistent aim: to expose how modern societies hide power, outsource moral responsibility, and confuse prestige with truth.Biographically, Lin was born in Shanghai, spent early childhood in the American South, and later grew up in Houston near the Texas Medical Center. That proximity to large-scale medicine, fragility, and institutional power matters to his sensibility; illness, exploitation, and survival recur as grounding realities rather than metaphors. He studied philosophy at the Uni
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