If you are old enough to have lived through The Cold War, you will remember, at least partially, the sheer terror it caused you to experience. For sheer fright value, nothing else even came close. An invading army might shoot you, even from tanks or aircraft, but at least you might see them coming, and [...]
The infamous twenty minute date
Some years ago, in London, England, I went often to practice at a Ki-Aikido club. It was there that I met a visiting student from another club, whom I was quite attracted to, and, as it turned out, so was she to me. Nothing came of that attraction for a week or two, until she [...]
Cooperation
Civilization is synonymous with cooperation. Without cooperation, no civilization could exist, since whereas one may be civilized, lacking any context of what civilization is, the term itself becomes purely subjective. Language, for example, is one of those things that has, through familiarity, become so taken for granted, that few attach any thought, consideration, or care [...]
Gravity and other laws
Humans are fond of observing things, and calling what they observe ‘laws’. This is the big hobby of scientists, whatever scientists are. Isaac Newton, for example, had a thing for apples. Most people might simply eat them, but not Newton. He preferred to observe them falling from trees, instead, and form wily hypotheses as to [...]
Socialschism
No, that’s not a typo. But neither is it correct. And it certainly isn’t politically correct. To focus too much on the social, is to become schizophrenic. To replace life with milling throngs of people and people-stuff, is to leave being human behind, and to start down a road to nowhere very good. I often [...]
Bliss
Moan, moan, moan. Ugh. Mmph. Mmmm… That’s me, this morning. I can’t stop moaning. It hasn’t stopped yet, and I’ve been up for hours. Unngh. Gasp. Oh my goodness… I don’t know what’s going on, but I feel as if I am in an ongoing post-orgasmic euphoria of just being, and being in a way [...]
A point of view
When is change a good thing? Is change ever a good thing? You may as well ask: “When am I a good thing? Am I ever a good thing?” And it all depends, you see, upon your point of view. I observe. This, above all, is what I do. Being as this is what I [...]
Tell me no lies
There is a world around us, all the time, that exists independently of whatever we may make of it. For the sake of convenience, we will refer to this world as “reality”. It is not dependent upon what we call it, or how we see it, or how we refer to it, or describe it. [...]
Socialization is a fantasy world that replaces reality
Socialization. It’s all about dominance and submission. It has nothing at all to do with life, or living. There is a world, and we are born into it. It was there before we arrived. We don’t know anything about this world. It is a blank map filled with mysterious places we haven’t been to yet. [...]
What is ‘Equality’, anyway?
A recent experience on an online forum, ostensibly about Philosophy, led me to post this, which may or not be relevant to readers of Amerika… Equality sounds like a great thing. People love the idea. Because it is an idea. Nothing more. It has no substance. There is no such thing as equality, anywhere in [...]
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