Yes video games are addictive, rather unhealthy and kinda useless But so are most things, to some extent. Like with drugs — video games are not to blame — but misuse The same misuse we make of money and resources and sex and food Video games are no more useless then art, or fiction …
Category: World
One Man’s Pain
If you believe that one man’s pleasure is another man’s pain then you are essentially condemning someone to pain Zero sum games are not even unproductive but destructive Competition is a waste of time and resources We need neither competition nor equal distribution You don’t have to be better then others, not …
Appereances Are Not Really Shallow
Appearances are not really shallow It’s your perception which is shallow Your perception is shallow and incomplete You don’t truly see the person, or the thing To make things worse — you see your own projections, your own mirages Your preconception about the person, about the thing, is the very definition of …
Plans Are Good When The Results Are Predictable
Plans are good when results are predictable Plans are adverse when results are unpredictable Most of us plan too much or too little or both We don’t understand what makes planning appropriate Most are unprofessional. Disorganised. Their chaotic actions reflect their ineptitude. Out of lack of sufficient challenge or ability — no discipline, …
Real World Outcomes
There’s the real world and there are ideas and theories. There’s engaging in actual actions in the real world — and there’s engaging in ideologies, in theoretical explorations and fantasies. If you are serious about the real-world outcomes — you want to engage in real-world actions, receive real-world feedback, and prepare real-world response. …
Happiness Is Underrated
Happiness is underrated Happiness is the true mark of success We signal success with silly trinkets and titles and stories — rather then with a smile. Happiness is still underrated when we babble so much about success and money and growth — rather then simply smile. Happiness is still underrated …
Ideological Nonsense…
Identity politics nonsense doesn’t end with magical emergence of some egalitarian Utopian paradise. Identity politics nonsenses ends when IDENTITY ends. Identity politics nonsenses ends when you see who you are and who your brother is and who your sister is: when you see that you are human and she is human and he …
Avoid Negativity Like The Plague
Negativity is not objective. Negativity is only subjective. There is no such thing in real life as a negative thing. Everything is exactly what it is and it’s neither negative nor positive. Negative and positive only exist within the psyche — and as such are entirely subjective. Since negativity is subjective — it …
Goodness is Simple
Goodness is simple You have a person in front of you How do you treat that person? Are you making that person happy? Are you making that person smile? Are you helping that person? Are you benefiting that person? Are you leaving that person better than you found them? Or is it the opposite? …
Relevant or Not
High quality / low quality — wrong dichotomy Original / Trite — wrong dichotomy Respectable / Dis-respectable — wrong dichotomy Relevant, or not — is the only metric How we love to IDEALISE, RATIONALISE, MAKE SENSE OF and MORALISE I don’t believe there is someone entirely free from this fault …