Over the years and centuries, as the failure of the first world to discover inner stability continues, it has become increasingly popular to talk about the “many problems” of humankind. I submit that this is euphemism of the first order. This species does not have many problems. We have a singular problem, which is dishonesty: [...]
Posts Tagged ‘cognitive dissonance’
Greed
At an intersection in the midtown area, two cars approach a four-way stop at right angles. One car, driven by a blonde woman, pulls up second but pulls away first, perhaps absent-mindedly. The dark-haired man driving the second car taps the horn as the other car pulls in front of him out of turn, and [...]
Victim identity
I engineered a situation the other day on a forum for stutterers that could have had no other possible result than getting me banned from the forum. I did this plainly, by maintaining my integrity, my position, my convictions and my poise no matter what was thrown at me. I don’t stutter. Although I did [...]
On behalf of…
We speak, often, of how the left plays victim politics. Because it does. But not being like them, it is notoriously difficult for us to understand this phenomenon. Hopefully, you are not all like me, and you are more able, than I, to figure out what the hell is going on in the heads of [...]
Sharing
I hear a lot about “sharing”, these days. The self-styled “99%” are big on it. As are legions of self-styled “poor”, of which there are none, in the western world. Yet. “There’s more than enough to go round”, it is claimed, ad nauseum. Why can’t “we” have “our share”? Why am I using so many [...]
Pyramid power
If you tried to list the longest-lived things, built by man, chances are that Pyramids would be at, or very near, the top. And why is that? Let’s look first at the geometry involved… The base is huge. Many, many stone blocks, arranged in a square, forming that base. Going up, many more blocks, never [...]
Self-importance
Imagine that late at night, you could glide over this city. Start at your home and work your way inward, toward the gleaming center of the city. Look how these buildings thrust off the earth and rise. They scream an immortality at a sky they believe to be empty and thus uncaring. Paradoxical but powerful [...]
Straight to Hell
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.– Arthur Schopenhauer (Why) Everything is going to hell. These days we have armies of “experts” investigating the causes of our misbelonging. Of our unexpected freight and intangible unease. The face of yet another famous sociologist, media-specialist or [...]
