Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim cannot help being stupid. Stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, There is no appeal, execution is carried out automatically, without pity. (natural laws have no pity) *** The truth of…
The mass movementabsorbs the individual,by stripping the individualof his opinions, tastes, and values.He is thereby reducedto an infantile state.This is what the new birth really means:to become like a child,and children are primitive beings,credulous, followers,members of a pack. — Eric Hoffer What curious, weird creatures, we humans are ! I feel quite old, Yoda-like…
What happens? Yesterday the news came that Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar dropped out of primary contention. The day before it was Pete Buttigieg, the former mayor of South Bend, Indiana who called a halt to his bid to be the candidate for the Democratic party. I assume both are throwing their support to former…
Creatures of habit. I am, — no question about it. Yesterday I walked away. I left a place where I have worked daily, departing from my role as owner of a company, the chief problem solver. The wind-down has been gradual, beginning six months ago. After a day of labor to tear down the…
It is easy for the mind to indulge. The opposite is also easy, to renounce. To move to the extreme is easy for the mind. To remain in the middle, exactly in the middle, is the most difficult thing for the mind because it is suicide for the mind. The mind dies in the…
The systemic drive of capitalism produces cheapening labor (reduce input costs) expanding markets (new venues for profit) economic growth constant innovation in production ushering in a new order of economic reason, of governing rationality. Thus capital itself, gives shape to human worlds, the power of world making. Capital dominates the human beings, and human…
If I had to provide a definition, I would say that politics has to do with the relationship between a collectivity and the available and necessary resources, with the aim of employing such resources to increase the happiness of the collectivity -if we understand collectivity as the sum of its individual members, and happiness…
Millions of Americans are wrestling with the impossibility of a traditional middle-class existence. In homes across the country, kitchen tables are strewn with unpaid bills. Lights burn late into the night. The same calculations get performed again and again, over and over, through exhaustion and sometimes tears. Wages minus grocery receipts. Minus medical bills….
Convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling. I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds ones burden again. But Sisyphus teaches…
Adventurers only exist within the time of their own mortality. No heaven or hell, no memory or glory lie beyond the moment in which their bodies start rotting. The time of adventure only exists as a ‘time of now’….. Whatever we desire, we can only achieve within the narrow time of our biology. Before…
