Simplicity is not generalising Generalising is simplistic, reductionistic Simplicity doesn’t reduce. Doesn’t judge. Doesn’t diminish. Doesn’t label. When you hear — “BE SIMPLE” — it means: be open, be non-judgemental be perceptive see what is don’t see what isn’t, don’t presume what isn’t When you hear — “BE SIMPLE” — it …
Tag: Society
That Old, Boring Power
At the end this obsession with power just gets really fucking boring. Power is only exciting for those who don’t have it (and so is everything else you don’t have) Power is the coolest thing in the world for those caught up in their power-games — and the most ordinarily boring to those …
We Label Each Other
The only way to threat someone badly is by deliberately hurting them. You can’t be held accountable for not helping someone. Most can’t be helped. “Good treatment”, “rules of conduct”, “good behaviour” — all these are constructs. It’s subjective “good”, agreed “good”, and not objective. We have a habit of labelling things. This habit makes …
Social Media Chicanery
By approaching this social media and personal branding business with this trickster, slippery attitude — you are basically admitting that what you have to offer to this world cannot survive without you stepping over others with your disingenuous little tricks. Is this follow-4-follow business beneficial for the social media? Buying likes? Undiscriminating spamming? …
NEVER Be Afraid To Be Disliked
You DO want to be liked. You said you didn’t but you do. You were said: be kind be friendly be polite be useful! be grateful be pleasant be agreeable be helpful …or people won’t LIKE YOU and you were said: be cool be pretty be funny be successful be respectable be rich be …
Caught Between: EXPLORATION vs REPUTATION
Life is exploration. World is exploration. Progress is exploration. Discovery is exploration. Exploration comes before discovery. Before result. Before achievement. Before benefits. Before reputation Exploration is salient philosophically, spiritually. Results are subjective. Their relevance is merely relative. Exploration is a way of living, a lifestyle, a life’s philosophy. Fixation with result ruins …
Part Of Something
part of something greater part of something lesser always part of something which is not something else part of something is still parting still not whole alone or in the group still separated, always separated not until we fully comprehend the gravity of the problem of separation it’s pervasive …
Reputation Deters You From Being Wrong
Reputation deters you from being wrong. You are now avert to making mistakes – so that you protect your reputation. But when you’re unwilling to be wrong — not only do you prevent yourself from learning — you also begin the movement of delusion. Eventually even the truths you built your reputation on become corrupted. …
Stealing Ideas
I will gladly steal the brilliant insights of greater then me and post them/ tweet them/ write a fucking book about them …as my own — because thats how little I care about looking good. Every idea known to men shall be repeated infinitely many times. You can’t really steal ideas. It’s like …
Don’t Sell Yourself
I found myself wondering if he was being disingenuous or… just selling. And then I realised it meant the same thing. It’s often the same thing You sell your stuff to someone, you sell yourself to others… Before you know it you lose track of which part of you is for sale and which …