People who tell you to go back to your roots are merely lonely –
they have already devolved to the pre-sapient stage and want you to join them back there.
Tag: culture
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De-evolution
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Point of View
What is it that makes us human?
Is it soul,
technology,
the use of handkerchiefs
or two types of forks?
I think it is language, for it gives us empathy;
the ability to see through other’s eyes
and hence the ability to see something truly new.
Look through the eyes of an artist – it will give you the joy of creating a world.
Look through the eyes of history – it will give you the desire for changing the world.
Look through the eyes of a child – it will give you a reason for changing yourself. -
Living space
We live in the spaces defined by our cultures.
Some of us expand inherited houses to palaces,
some – narrow them to defensive forts,
which then have to be lit by funeral pyres. -
Ideas
Ideas permeate cultures like rings on the water;
the stone someone threw is gone, submerged,
but the ripples go on and on,
slowing down where the water is thick and marshy,
amplified by resonance and creating new patterns where they meet waves from other stones…
There is almost nothing more powerful;
while there is water the ripples will go on,
where there is water – the ripples will get there,
sooner or later… -
Level of abstraction
Nothing generates as much philosophical drivel as incorrectly chosen level of abstraction.
“What are the origins of evil?” –
ask a stupid question – get a religion. -
THE ULTIMATE SECRET OF LEADING A LESS STRESSFUL AND MORE PRODUCTIVE LIFE!!!
Don’t make unnecessary choices,
it really doesn’t matter what colour shoes you are wearing today! -
Me and Mark Twain are like that!
Our planet seems to be becoming smaller by the year,
as technology and communications develop, and yet …
When I encounter popular media
with our mediaeval debates about local religions or news
with our primitive tribal politics,
I keep thinking:
“Things are getting better…
most people are still poorly educated…
it is just a matter of time…”
and then I read Mark Twain
and realise that this is how he consoled himself
more than a hundred years ago…
