Insatiable Thirst Our basic “matter” is a desire, a yearning to receive as much pleasure as possible for ourselves. Our existence is sensed and measured through the amount of fulfillment we receive for our real or assumed necessities. Through human history and even within our personal lives this self-centered, “greedy” desire constantly grows. Although in … More Wine Tasting
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
Broken View By default our perception of reality is completely subjective and distorted. As our inherent nature is self-serving and self-justifying we only observe, “taste” from the surrounding, infinite reality what is useful for our egocentric “pleasure/pain” calculations. As a result we see a broken, fragmented world around us, distorted by our egos as if … More Correcting Our Vision
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
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
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
Overwhelmed By A Modern Flood It seems today we are in great need of another Noah’s Ark. Humanity is flooded with a tsunami of crisis situations, all our human systems, ideologies are breaking down. Moreover the natural environment is also suffering badly. While we are still debating our human responsibility for it, climate change is … More Noah’s Ark
In A Frozen Global Network Today most people started to recognize that we evolved into a globally interconnected and interdependent system. It means that wherever we want it or not we are all tied together with myriads of different threads, cables, channels without which none of us can develop or survive any longer. We experience … More Chains Or Umbilical Cord?
Trapped Today we exist in our individual Plato’s Caves. Our inherently self-serving, self-justifying and self-protecting nature gives us a completely introverted, limited and subjective perception of reality. In truth nothing is real within this subjective cave, everything we “see, hear, smell, taste or touch” is a projection of our own self, clothing true reality into … More Beyond The Wall
Subjective Lovers And Haters Ancient Jewish wisdom claims that a hero is the one that overcomes one’s enemy, while the hero of heroes is the one who makes one’s enemy into one’s lover. Of course in order to understand such a statement we would need to clarify what the definitions of “enemy” and “lover” truly … More Hero Of Heroes
Entering The Force-Field 