“Who can be a failure in so many ways, instead of getting fired we’ll give ourselves a raise… the government can!” Causality is a tricky thing. Understanding why an event happens after the fact can be difficult and even impossible, given the complexity of reality, and given that any small contingency can have a massive [...]
One cannot accept the comforts and easy answers of the modern world and at the same time reject its vacuous meaninglessness and hopelessness. A consistent rejection of all dead ends. Time to rebel, and to do it alone, and to follow it through.
Since when has Whole Foods been synonymous with social progressiveness? People are getting upset about WF’s CEO John Mackey, who wrote an op-ed piece for the Wall Street Journal criticizing Obama’s health care legislation. This is confusing for enlightened people who are sure that every intelligent person agrees with them about how necessary and beneficial [...]
Unstable? Or perhaps with a deeper stability born of comfort with chaos, spells of depression and withdrawal punctuating periods of fullness and life in a way which is purifying and ultimately constructive. Just as the cold uncomfortable winter–bringing in its wake desolate winds and dead landscapes–creates the possibility of new life the next spring, so [...]
Here‘s a link to a financial company which predicts a global period of economic, social, and political upheaval beginning in the next few years. People with bad news tend to be labelled pessimists and ignored because most people prefer feeling good to having a realistic perspective. Of course, this is only a temporary good feeling, [...]
The world remains as it always was, cancerous growths notwithstanding. And the Earth will shake off its human tumor just as it’s shaken off every other problem it has encountered. The human species was the first to fill a wide niche, like the first amphibious reptiles that were able to crawl up on land. If [...]
I’ve been reading this. So out of all the sensations thoughts feelings intuitions and imaginations you experience you choose a few and call it “I”. This is the ego, the brain function you identify with. It is the medium of your experience, but it is not “You.” Your Self consists not only of your conscious [...]