What's your definition of romantic? My definitions hail from the realm of literature. They do not and never had anything to do with love. Let me be clearer. The Cid is a play authored by Corneille, the great French classical playwright in late 17th century. This play was written during the glorious reign of Louis … Continue reading Romanticism v. Classicism
Life is a Challenge
Life is a Challenge. You don’t matter much. Get used to its various disappointments. Your birth and death are not the most traumatic episodes of your existence. Losing a loved one is. It reveals your own mortality. You are next.
Materialism v. Meaning
How important is spirituality in your life? I hate the word ‘spirituality’. It’s so imprecise. It can mean anything… and nothing. Why not be precise? Let’s take ‘materialism’ for instance. It covers the whole spectrum of the material world. It also lacks precision but it doesn’t need it, now, right? Materialism is unfocused by design. … Continue reading Materialism v. Meaning
The Effective Gun Control Fallacy
Gun control does not work. It keeps law-abiding citizens under the boot heel of the tyrannic state while allowing criminals to run amok and cull the flock of hapless sheep. You pick up a gun you instantly become a citizen.
Italy
What countries do you want to visit? Having gazed upon Tivoli’s hills and valleys, walked Rome’s Via Apia Antiqua, wandered among Florence’s many artistic displays, there is only one place on Earth where I want to go back to. My mind often goes back to Rome. And I left my heart in Florence for a … Continue reading Italy
The Capacity to Change
What’s your favorite thing about yourself? Change is hard. But it is also a fact of life. The capacity to roll with the punches is what separates Man from everything else around us. Now I’ve been known to hate change. In the past, I was as reluctant to change as the most conservative old farts. … Continue reading The Capacity to Change
On Stakes and Outcomes
All outcomes should be judged in reference to the resources waged and... lost. Since life is a zero sum game whereby one's gain is someone else's loss, the same goes for almost all human endeavors. I would even claim that the more one stands to lose in a contest, the more it becomes a zero-sum … Continue reading On Stakes and Outcomes
Where is a Shrink when you need One?
Omnes te moriturum amant. Everybody loves you when you are about to die. An interesting saying, wouldn't you agree? Here is another interesting factoid about who else loves you... and your secrets. Given the amount of hype, time, and money spent in the field and realm of psychoanalysis, one would imagine therapy would by now … Continue reading Where is a Shrink when you need One?
A Grave Danger
War has always been the bane of Humankind. We started like this... Ended up thus... Violence has always been our Dark Passenger, to quote Dexter Morgan. We have always had a fascination with killing our brethren. Whether we did it piecemeal or in retail fashion or in bulk, via mass-murder and genocide, matters little in … Continue reading A Grave Danger
On Karmic Sins
We're all Sinners. In fact, we sin every day but we think we can get away if we don't verbalize it. It's not always the big capital sins: murder, rape, theft, cheating. Most often, it's the little things: white lies, sins of omission, meanness, wanton stupidity, greed, lust, coveting stuff or a general need or … Continue reading On Karmic Sins
Götterdämmerung 