As mentioned here several times, the founding illusion of modernity occurred in 1789 when people decided that they could do without specialized leaders. Instead, it was declared that we are all equal. This means that we pick leaders from among us by voting. 222 years on, it seems this has not worked out so well. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘crowdism’
Pirates
Pirates are interesting people. Interesting in the way they live, not inasmuch as you would actually want to meet them. Unless, of course, you were a pirate too. Even then, you might be less than enthusiastic. For pirates are dangerous. Not because they are particularly strong, but because they operate by no civilized code of [...]
Pass it on
Emotion is a powerful aspect of the human mind — There’s no denying it. It’s a very necessary force that should never be ignored, but understood in the context of healthy, rational thought. A lot of issues that people have with emotion often involve an inability to understand why it is felt or whether or [...]
Junk science
Given sufficient time, any intelligent individual will eventually reach the conclusion that reading about science is generally useless. Scientific research is supposed to be self explanatory. Any attempt to write about it is merely a barrier or middle man. Why take a secondary account, when a primary one is available? The original, raw, experimental data [...]
Underdog
Our society will always be divided into two groups: those who are dissatisfied, and everyone else. Among the dissatisfied, a small minority — like one in ten thousand — will be ideologues working to fix a problem that no one else understands. Your classic mad scientist, convinced that Godzilla will attack and so laboring late [...]
Equality kills hope
The past 70 years of history in the West have consisted of us re-living WWII propaganda. It’s the freedom fighters versus the bad guys, and wherever we go we bring equality and democracy, and thus everything is going to be OK. We partner that with a Rosie the Riveter style attitude that we’re going to [...]
Empathy versus sympathy
Empathy and sympathy overlap, but I will use “sympathy” here to mean “blind compassion,” or feeling something that you shouldn’t be feeling in the first place, just because you weren’t even a part of the circumstances or situation that affected the party in suffering, but by golly, you feel bad for some reason! Good old [...]
The Prole Wars: the closing
This is the third part of my experience when visiting the demonstrations about the financial crisis. In the second episode of these reviews I pointed out to the protesters that they lacked unity, order and cohesion. They did not have a singular message to convey, but instead their protest was made up from a collection of [...]
Wealth and the debt culture
People with wealth are blamed for our problems because many middle class, and certainly most poor, cannot imagine how wealth is accumulated. It’s not about how much Steve Jobs took home in a year, it’s how much wealth he had accumulated via his life’s work – that is to say, Apple and his other investments. [...]
99% of problems committed by 1%
A problem lurks within us. It stalks us as we sleep, work and play. It is not us; no, but it hides among us. It’s a small group of people who are destroying everything we love. They consider themselves above us. An ivory-tower elite, they scorn our daily struggles. Then, with one hand busy flaunting [...]
