Building Walls Or Opening Borders?

“New” Walls It seems building walls is becoming fashionable these days. Israel has been building walls all around the state for years, in order to keep potential terrorists out. Then last year Hungary and other European countries started building walls, fences to keep unwanted refugees, immigrants away. And now the “flavor of the moment”, the … More Building Walls Or Opening Borders?

Roots

“Lion” The Movie The recently released, beautiful and deeply emotional movie, “Lion” describes the heart breaking, true story of a five year old Indian boy. Accidentally he gets trapped on a train while searching for night work with his brother, and when he finally gets off the train he finds himself in Calcutta, 1600 kilometers … More Roots

Intentionally Torn Apart

Living Unintentionally When we judge each other, evaluate human relationships we observe each other’s actions. Whether such action means words said or practical actions performed, this is what we can observe, feel, measure and draw conclusions from. Thus we behave like “solid bodies” in a physical system drawing closer to or further from one another, … More Intentionally Torn Apart

Inhuman Efficiency

The Dangerously Advancing Robots Our modern human paradigm has become all about constant quantitative growth, individual profit accumulation, based on ever increasing productivity and efficiency. Our proud technological advancement is also behind serving this paradigm. As a result even today the mainstream of production, organization is already guided or completely taken over by robotics, and … More Inhuman Efficiency

Benevolent Assassins

Genetic Memory The plot of the just released movie, “Assassin’s Creed” is based on the protagonist accessing long forgotten memories, “software” deposited by ancient ancestors hidden in his DNA. By reviving that memory, reawakening the dormant software he regains capabilities he didn’t know he ever had, transforming himself completely. The new capabilities revived from the … More Benevolent Assassins

National Pride

The Dictum Of Liberal Democracy We can only perceive the true reality by comparative research, when we can work with contrasts. When we lure ourselves into a singular ideology, outlawing all other ideologies, we lose our ability to tell who we are and where we are. In the last few decades for different reasons, the … More National Pride

Jewish Survival Method

Empires Fall, Jews Survive While walking around in great cities of Europe, that encapsulate thousands of years of history, one can reveal a paradoxical, but typical pattern of Jewish history. For example in Rome one can walk through the Forum, marveling at the archaic, thousands of years old remains of kingdoms, all conquering empires. But … More Jewish Survival Method