tag > Ideas
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"All Matter is Fossilised Thought" - Hans Peter Dürr
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Inhale and Exhale my dear friend - Why so serious and tense? Celebrate and laugh - for life is truly a wonderfully mysterious and equally comedic situation! Beyond words and other forms of symbolic reasoning and semiotic shadow-boxing, lies a vast ocean of direct experience. The fiction created by the spell of words people weave around them, can lead to great distortions of meaning. While being "right" can be fun - being "effective" - "kind, receptive and present" is essential. Hence, "Chill out. Do less. Enjoy more" remains a timeless mantra - and true sophistication is signified by its tendency toward simplicity, love and peace.
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"Chill out. Do less. Enjoy more." should be the mantra of the next 100 years globally.
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Welcome my friend, I have awaited you. Sit, relax and enjoy some tea. The time is now, the place is here. Our journey has begun. What we seek is seeking us.
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Meta-political speculators - a more accurate label for sophisticated "conspiracy theorists"
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“That which withers in the age of mechanical reproduction is the aura of the work of art. This is a symptomatic process whose significance points beyond the realm of art. One might generalize by saying: the technique of reproduction detaches the reproduced object from the domain of tradition.” - Walter Benjamin
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BUY or DIE! - the official slogan of humanity today.
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"Any organization that designs a system will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure." - Melvin E. Conway
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"The best way to get the right answer on the internet is not to ask a question; it's to post the wrong answer." - Cunningham's Law
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The rulers of civilization are the ones who control the narrative and thus the timeline.
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Humans fundamentally misunderstood Evolution
"700,000 Years Of Progress" - Art by Alfred Frueh (1880-1968) The evolution of species is not going always "upwards" as commonly understood, but it is arguably even going "downwards" in recent times. Perceiving humans as more "advanced" as Trees, Worms or Dolphins is a very arrogant, reductionist, stupid joke. In the bigger picture, there is no discernible "objective function" or "arrow of progress" at all, only temporary patterns and habits in time. Evolution is not going anywhere at all. There is no "answer" or "destination" at the end of the rainbow - contrary to the gospel of the religion du jour (science), which keeps preaching visions of a "mathematically beautiful end state which we are racing towards" (which is essentially the science version of God).
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Douglas Engelbart's vision of "Augmenting the Human Intellect" is ultimately egotistical and short-sighted. Consider "Augmenting the Human Capacity for Love - Compassion, Simplicity and Humility".
