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- Back From A Long Break Of Not Writing A Book To My Liking: Memoirs Of A Writer By Rafael Cansinos Assens
- DISCOVERING OUR NARRATIVE, A PROCESS WE CALL LIFE
- ON OUR MISTAKES, SOMETIMES WE FEEL HOPELESS, AND LONELY
- A FEW THINGS ABOUT MY DAILY ROUTINE, AND MAYBE TRAVELING SOON.
- REFLECTIONS FROM AN OLD MAN ABOUT HIS PAST
- RUMORS OF WARS AND SUFFERING
- MY LOVE OF BOOKS, AND MY READING SAGA, A STORY OF LOVE, WONDER, HEARTBREAK, AND BACK PAIN.
- ON MYSTICISM AND MEISTER ECKHART
- A BEUTIFUL DAY TRHOUGH MY WINDOW THE HOPE OF A NEW YEAR
- REFLECTIONS OF CHRISTMAS PAST, AND PRESENT.
- HISTORY OF DREAMING, AND CONNECTION WITH SPIRIT, THIRD PART
- DREAM INTERPRETATION AND IT’S PROBLEMS. SECOND PART.
Category Archives: Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines
THE THINGS TO COME, SOONER THAN WE EXPECTED, THE FRUIT OF UNBRIDLED PLUTOCRACY, AN OUTDATED MODEL, ON A FINITE WORLD.
Michelle Goldberg, in the NYT podcast, “The argument,” said something that put the first five months of this year into stark perspective. She said that 2020 started off like 1974 (an impeachment crisis), quickly became 1918 (a pandemic), turned into … Continue reading
Posted in A World in Crisis, Backlash Of History, Consciousness, Corruption, Crisis, Crisis of Values, Criticism, Doomsday, Dystopia, Ecological Crisis, Economy, Environment, Future, Globalization, Government and Free Markets, Greed and Impunity, History Has Consecuences, Justice, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Malthusian Future, New Values, Obsolete Government, Oligarchy, Pandemic, Plutocracy, Responsibility, Social Criticism, The Empire Crumbling, Things To Come, Uncategorized
Tagged Climate Change, Crisis, Economic Hardships, George Floyd, Hyper-Capitalism, Pandemic, Plutocracy, Riots, Social Unrest, Time For Reckoning, Unemployment, What Will Be Next?
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THE GRAVITY OF BANALITY, IT HAS CONSEQUENCES, THE NOISE BEFORE DEFEAT.
“The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.” Hannah Arendt. The Banality of Evil Philosopher and Political theorist Hannah Arendt, pointed out that in order to … Continue reading
Posted in A World in Crisis, American Hubris, Banality, Consciousness, Corruption, Crisis, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Cultural Attitudes, Disillusion with Capitalism, Education, Greed and Impunity, History, Hubris, Ignorance, Illusions, Inspiration, Justice, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Materialism, Moral Virtue, New Values, Obsolete Government, Over Consumption, Plato, Social Criticism, Strategy, The Empire Crumbling, Things To Come, Transformation, Uncategorized
Tagged Banality, Corruption, Drunkenness, Hubris, Lost Victories, Moral Decay, Obsolete Government, Outdated America, Past Glories, Strategy, Stupidity, Sun Tzu, The Empire Crumbles, The Noise Before Defeat, Virtue, Von Manstein
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ROMANTIC LOVE, HISTORY OF COURTLY LOVE, INFATUATION, AND BIASES ON OUR CONTEMPORARY CULTURE
Infatuation is the state of being completely carried away by unreasoning passion or love; addictive love. Infatuation usually occurs at the beginning of relationship when sexual attraction is central. “They do not love that do not show their love. … Continue reading
Posted in Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Cultural Attitudes, Cynicism, Education, Infatuation, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Love, Romance, Uncategorized, Values, Western Civilization
Tagged Arrenged Marriages, Courtly Love, Cultural Attitudes, Infatuation, Love, Romance
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A BRAVE NEW WORLD, THE ANONYMUS PHENOMEN, A CHALLENGE TO THE STATUS QUO
“Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our … Continue reading
Posted in A Brave New World, Anger and Violence, Capitalism, Counsciousness, Crisis of Values, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Disillusion with Capitalism, Ecological Crisis, Economy, End of materialism, Freedom, Future, Greed, Historical Evolution, History, Justice, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Materialism, Progress, Uncategorized
Tagged Anonymus, Arundhati Roy, Democracy Failure, Discontent, Government Failure, Guy Fawkes mask, Plutocracy, Political activism, Political future
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SPECIALIZATION, AND GENERALIZATION, A SHORSIGHTED VIEW OF KNOWLEDGE, AND LIFE, THE POLITICS OF WENDELL BERRY
There was a time when the world was a simpler place, or we may like to believe so on this days of tremendous advances on the field of science, of technological progress that would make our early twenty century forefathers … Continue reading
Posted in Cosmogony, Counsciousness, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Ecology, Economy, Environment, Freedom, Future, Generalization, Globalization, History, Human Nature, Inductive Knowledge, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Money, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodernism, Progress, Property, Specialization, Spiritual but not Religious, Spirituality, Uncategorized, Wendell Berry, Wisdom
Tagged A New Way of Living, A Return to the Soil, Consumerism, Corporate Capitalism, Ecology, Ecology & Spirituality, Environment, Generalization, Love for the Land, Mother Earth, Plutocrats, Specialization, Sustainability, Vote with your Wallet, Wendell Berry
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THE FALLACY IN THE DREAM; SECULAR AND RELIGIOUS MATERIALISM, NIHILISM, AND SPIRITUAL BANKRUPTCY
Extolling the virtues, and rightness of our now old hat, the Secular materialistic state of affairs that rule the world, it is praised with self-righteousness, like a sort of doctrine that like the famous phrase in our bill of rights … Continue reading
Posted in Bankruptcy, Capitalism, Critical Thinking, Democracy, Economy, Freedom, Globalization, History, Human Nature, Life Liberty and the pursuit of happines, Materialism, Money, Nihilism, Ontology, Philosophy, Politics, Postmodernism, Property, Religion, Secular Society, Spiritual but not Religious, Spirituality, The Bill of Rights, Unalienable Rights, Uncategorized, Wall Street fiasco
Tagged Baudrillard, Benjamin Franklin, Bill of Rights, Capitalism, Declaration of Independence, Federal Reserve, George Mason, Government, John Locke, Leibniz, Materialism, Nihilism, Paper Money, Religion of the State, Richard Cumberland, Secular, Thomas Jefferson, Wall Street, William Wollaston, Zizek
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Kone, Krusos, Kronos 