A man may be minding his own business, when, BLAM! He is attacked, for no apparent reason, by what appears, to him, to be a madman. Or woman. “You’re a RACIST!” When he is not. “You’re a BIGOT!” When he is not. “You’re a FASCIST!” When he is not. “You’re a MORON!” When he is [...]
Posts Tagged ‘realism’
Conservative realism
Who is this guy? It doesn’t matter who he is. It’s what he’s doing that matters. He is observing. Observing what? Reality! He lives by observing what is there, and interacting with it. Smart guy! He gets my admiration, although what he is doing is – in itself – no big deal. Or rather, was [...]
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 [...]
A permanent obsession
When empires are strong, they are carried by their deeds: their productivity, the clear wisdom of their mandate, and their great works. However, when they start to die, they instead turn to control. If they have no deeds, they can instead control your thought by forcing you to repeat insane dogma until your brain accepts [...]
House of cards
Lateral Thinking Solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic. – Wikipedia We don’t see very much of this. We don’t even recognize it, mostly, let alone promote its use. I do it. And [...]
Dig
As Brett Stevens wrote in his latest post: That would allow me to cut back on information overload a little bit by saying, “Here, here’s my reality. These are the things I read to stay informed. You don’t need the rest; it’s just repeating what these guys are telling you, but in a less accurate [...]
Frailty, what is thy name?
In a dream, it was this morning revealed to me at long last what women are really like. So as soon as I rinsed me from my slumber, I decided to come to this website to write down the most valuable findings of my revelation. I dreamed that I was visiting some young, soft and appealing woman. [...]
