Welcome to Radical Kindness: Empathy as Rebellion
This isn't just another Substack. It's not self-help. It's not academic philosophy you need a PhD to understand.
Struggling with ethical decisions in a complicated world? You're not alone. I'm Anthony Curtis, and I've spent years developing a practical framework for moral living.
Not because I wanted to do philosophy. Because I needed to make sense of a world that forged me through life's hardest experiences. Every week, I share:
✓ Clear tools for ethical decision-making
✓ Personal stories of growth through adversity
✓ Philosophy that actually applies to real life
✓ Frameworks for navigating moral complexity
Join readers who believe philosophy should help us live better, not just think better.
It's a framework for people who see the world burning and refuse to accept that cruelty is inevitable.
Through personal narrative and accessible moral philosophy, I explore what it means to build empathy in a system designed to make us indifferent. To practice kindness when the world profits from our isolation. To choose connection over competition, solidarity over charity.
This is where trauma becomes wisdom. Where philosophy meets the pavement.
Radical Kindness: Empathy as Rebellion asks the questions that matter:
How do we stay human in systems that treat us as units of production?
What does it mean to witness suffering, and act on what we see?
Can moral philosophy born from lived experience change how we treat each other?
Why This Matters
Because empathy is threatening to power structures that need us divided.
Because small acts of kindness are more subversive than we think.
Because the revolution starts with how we see each other.
What You’ll Get
Essays that make philosophy practical—moral frameworks you can actually use
Stories from the trenches—trauma, recovery, and what comes after survival
Tools for resistance—how individual ethics become collective action
A community that gives a damn—readers who think kindness is worth fighting for
Be Part of the Rebellion
This isn't a broadcast. It's mutual aid for your moral development.
Subscribers here aren’t just consumers.
They witness, they question, they act.
Some comment with their own stories. Others take these ideas into their communities. All understand that in a world that wants us isolated and processed, choosing to see each other as human is revolutionary.
Join the Movement
Whether you're here to process your own story, learn how philosophy meets real life, or get tools for building the world we actually want to live in, you belong here.
"You owe me nothing. I owe you everything. That's where real change begins." — Radical Kindness: Empathy as Rebellion
"We are not made whole by what happens to us, but by how we reckon with it."
— Radical Kindness: Empathy as Rebellion
About Me
Anthony Curtis
Not a philosopher. Not a guru. Just someone who survived hell and came back with something useful to say about it. I use memoir, moral philosophy, and the occasional undead metaphor to make sense of how we treat each other in late-stage capitalism.
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