[Read Elysium (1)] Transcendence of Society is hard. As Joseph Campbell observed – “The myth is the public domain and the dream is the private myth. If your private myth, your dream, happens to coincide with that of the society, you are in good accord with your group. If it…
Month: October 2023
#14 - Things to Fill Space
Because Time is Short
Really great day with wonderful things. And no time now to document. So here is – The Daily Stone
#01 - Things I Believe are Sacred
Tiny House – Then and Now
Part I (Then) The Daily Stone
#02 - Things to Consider
On Society
I often think in terms of higher powers – gods, for all intents and purposes. And I believe Society is far and away the most powerful and influential god that most of us will ever encounter. Society is so unbelievably powerful that it routinely manipulates great masses of humans to…
The Zero Sum Experience
Here is an interesting, but seemingly obvious observation I stumbled across – marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/09/the-zero-sum-idea-trap.html It’s a short read so worth taking a look. Here’s the gist though. According to the cited article from Financial Times, typically people who grow up with wealth and upward mobility conceive of a world where everything…