Tag: interest
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TRUTH WITHOUT AN ADVERTISING BUDGET
The need to order and organize our society comes before the need for truth. To think otherwise is to fall for a delusion – a delusion so common that like air, it fuels us without paying attention to it. Everything else serves this organisation agenda. Disorder, disagreement, and lack of cohesion trouble our souls as…
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THE HIDDEN BENEFITS OF USELESS KNOWLEDGE
Can someone explain your fascination with Mozart, Beethoven, and Tchaikovsky to me? To me, these guys just play “stuff” – or noise. Yet I can’t stop the awe I feel when I see people commit themselves to their pieces. A composer’s fascination with these legends tells me more than I can describe. Yet, even they…
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CAUSAL OPACITY: MAKE ELASTIC EFFORTS IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY
CAUSAL OPACITY There are consequences for being wrong. There are consequences for taking the wrong steps. Dangers exist for making the wrong decisions. And worse, there are effects of reactions based on those decisions. I think, and I am sure that every sensible person will agree with me that there are unbearable consequences for insisting…
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HOW YOU MAY BE DENYING THE HOLOCAUST
One of the goals and I take it as the primary goal of remembering the Holocaust, is to reflect on the events of that period and use them to evaluate ourselves. For many, the goal is to remember the ‘brave’ victims of the tragedy and condemn the evil perpetrators. For others, it is a period…
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WHAT I GOT WRONG
So, in January, I started a newsletter on substack. If you have not subscribed, please do so with this link. My tagline and the value I offered was summarised in this statement: “Busyminds: Getting the best of critical thinking.” My reason for that was simple. As at that time, I was, and still am invested…
The Busymind Project 