Has anyone else noticed that we reached a tipping point a while ago? That few of us now retain the mental fortitude to endure even five seconds of boredom, without reaching for our phones to pacify ennui?
It is now utterly epidemic. Everywhere you look without exception—on an elevator, in…
Enough isn’t a sexy doctrine. Far from the life of the party, it’s the rational voice that tells you skip the nightcap and get a good night’s sleep. While everybody knows it’s right to espouse these things, nobody enjoys the reminder.
We’d rather party, and pay the price tomorrow.
Enough…
So why hasn’t it happened?
Recent articles by Jared Brock (America Will be Twelve Countries Very Soon) and Hank Pellissier (Geo-Tinyism) stuck with me, mostly because the views they present on better societal models are as practical as they are revolutionary. In a sense Earth 4.0, …
Trust is the bedrock of human societies. Without it, we’d never have grown from Dunbar-sized tribes of 150 closely related humans to townships and cities full of unrelated strangers. …
A fourth century ascetic monk named Evagrius Ponticus first penned them. A sixth century pope — Gregory I — later canonized them. And a thirteenth century theologian-turned-saint named Thomas Aquinas set them into the injunction we all know today as the Seven Deadly Sins.
They are, according to Christian orthodoxy…
Over the past three years, I have become increasingly disappointed in capitalism. It’s not that I’ve landed on the wrong side of the equation. I am squarely on the “winning” side. So, my misgivings aren’t fueled by personal feelings of exclusion or hardship. …
One day we will each face a reckoning. For some, it will come at life’s end, as evidenced by Australian nurse Bronnie Ware’s heart-wrenching research into the greatest regrets of the dying. (More on that later.) …
Most of us know the expression “Monkey See, Monkey Do”, born in 18th century Jamaica. We know it refers to the tendency for some to mimic others’ behaviors; but are less aware of the fact that it was used primarily to explain our disconcerting propensity for doing something we’ve seen…
Sometimes, I dream of a world in which the worst of human behaviors don’t exist. In those moments, I envision crisp, fresh air; lush, cacophonous forests; crystal-clear lakes and rivers; teeming oceans; and snow-capped mountains, all gloriously free of industrial machinery. I dream of a world in which the machines…
The idea that an unconscious mind exists at all — let alone alongside, totally hidden from and unconnected to our conscious mind — has been long theorized, but only recently proven to exist.
We now know that not only does it exist; among other things in his excellent book Subliminal…
