Most men are rigid. Most men eventually consolidate in their beliefs. The psyche wraps around those beliefs protectively. The entire machinery of schemas and biases makes it immensely difficult to penetrate. Don’t hope for an average person to change. People don’t change. Most men are rigid. There’s little chance of them changing. There’s little …
Tag: Society
You Are An Individual And You Are The World
Apparently you are not the only human on earth Therefore you invariably impact others — and are impacted by others You came into the world built by others and you will die in a world predominately built by others How much of your life do you think you can even take credit for? You are …
No, We Are Not Better Than Our Modern World
-There’s the mediocre majority -The excellent minority -And the backwards minority -I believe the whole is pushed forward by the excellent minority -The excellent minority, the heroes, the precursors, the visionaries, the saints, are miles ahead -The mediocre majority is slightly behind the average of the whole, because the whole is pushed forward by the …
What ENTITY Are You Dealing With Exactly?
There are entities. Entities comprise of entities. And entities comprise entities. An entity is different to entities it is comprised of. An entity is different to entity is comprises. Is it much different? Depends on scale. Depends on co-dependence. It can be very similar, It can be very dissimilar, Since entity comprising many …
Social Expansion
Men want to obtain value and preserve value. Same is true in the social context: When interacting with the world — you want to OBTAIN VALUE and PRESERVE VALUE. How do we go about it? By some time in our lives we develop some default STRATEGY: —one which usually errs on the side of …
Shame, Shameful, Sincerity
There’s the shameful. And there is shame. Shameful leads to shame. Unless someone is shameless — then it doesn’t. Likewise shame itself can arise without the shameful. And of course — shameful is not objective. Shameful is not objective but it obviously doesn’t mean it’s void. Society agrees on what it considers shameful. …
PERHAPS WE DON’T SHARE VALUES
I can consider action or actions someone is taking as admirable, as productive, constructive, as professional, as good, as moral I can also consider them inferior to the actions someone else is taking, or I myself am taking I can view someone’s philosophy, someone’s approach, someone’s overarching plan — as productive, as constructive, as intelligent, …
Have Values to Be Valued
There are INDIVIDUAL VALUES you DEVELOP by the virtue of LIVING YOUR LIFE, and living it AS AN INDIVIDUAL. Then there are VALUES YOU ABSORB from everywhere else: -values you’re born with (as an animal) -values you inherit from the society this type of “values” being persistently confused for personal values, and believed to have …
Politeness vs Bluntness vs Hostile
note: this is a PROFOUNDLY misunderstood subject. I don’t think we actually know what politeness is, and what purpose it serves. Bear with me You can be completely transparent. Or you can be polite. Being polite means taking extra measures to ensure that the receiving party — besides receiving our message — is also …
Giving Value Is a Cheat Code
Giving value is a cheat code You can be morally a scum But if you give enough value — people will bear with you People will IDEALISE you They will overlook your flaws You will still be a scum. A single good deed, or 1000 good deeds, don’t wash out a bad one, not …