I remember the first time I attended a Quaker Meeting (for Worship) many decades ago just like it was yesterday. It was an awe-inspiring experience. I guess maybe when Simon and Garfunkel wrote “The Sound of Silence”, they might have been trying to capture a similarly phenomenal experience. I am often reminded of this experience… Continue reading Mainstreaming a Different Mainstream
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Consumer Behavior and Belief
We consume a lot of things — including, I guess, things we aren’t even aware that we’re consuming … like ideas. I think a lot of our behavior follows patterns that are “animalistic” in nature. Like Mick Jagger (with the Rolling Stones) sang: we salivate like a pavlov dog. Apparently, our systems are based on… Continue reading Consumer Behavior and Belief
Natural Orientation
Today nearly everyone is focused on living in the present. Presence is the place and state of mind in which many people want to be at all times. That may very well be all good and fine, but still we should also keep in mind our orientation. Orientation is a word with very strong connotations.… Continue reading Natural Orientation
To Go with the Flow OR To Swim against the Stream
Mob mentality is usually viewed with disdain. Gustave Le Bon, who was a pioneer in this field of study, painted the mob to be distinctly uncivilized … even sub-human. Yet we ought to also recognize that the cornerstones of what we consider to be modern civilization are governments that were created out of protest, as… Continue reading To Go with the Flow OR To Swim against the Stream
Exploring Humanity: Clickbait Edition
I’ve been asked to be part of an event to highlight some music I find worthy of highlighting at a weekend soiree in a couple weeks, and I’ve chosen to focus my “feature” on a brief period in musical history (roughly 1980’s, yet also as far back as the 1950’s and also much later —… Continue reading Exploring Humanity: Clickbait Edition
Scaling Time
Die Welt ist alles, was der Fall ist https://www.wittgensteinproject.org/w/index.php/Logisch-philosophische_Abhandlung#1 When I turn on the radio, I usually expect to be entertained more than I expect to be informed — and my expectations seem to be confirmed time after time. This morning was no exception. This morning I heard that something had happened in Vancouver (Canada)… Continue reading Scaling Time
The Razzle-Dazzle of New & Improved vs. the Tried & True But Tired of Old & Over-Used
A while ago, I became aware of a book published last year, authored by Tali Sharot, titled “Look Again”. In an introductory statement to a talk given by the author at Google, the presenter states: “Look Again” explores all the ways that our brain’s ability to habituate to novel experiences over time affects our behavior,… Continue reading The Razzle-Dazzle of New & Improved vs. the Tried & True But Tired of Old & Over-Used
Tolerable Perfection and Implications for Human Mortality
This morning I experienced a sort of “AHA!” insight that I want to share with you now — even if the ink on my haphazardly scribbled notes has not yet even had any opportunity to dry in the fresh, crisp early autumn air. To provide more context, let me first add that quite a few… Continue reading Tolerable Perfection and Implications for Human Mortality
Living Here
This week I am going to be “switching things up” and I guess there will be a big “change of pace”. In part, this may be due to a dearth of propaganda influencing me and causing me to react (and / or retaliate). But the way I will introduce this topic will probably trigger a… Continue reading Living Here
How to Make Natural Selection Work
Now that I have written this title, I wonder why I have never before considered the context in which the term “natural selection” arose (and how this context perhaps influenced the selection of the term natural selection“). So I pulled a few volumes of decades-old paper encyclopedias off my shelves and in one of them… Continue reading How to Make Natural Selection Work
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