Category: Life Perspective and Comments
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Empathy vs. Division: The Future of Democracy
Introduction: Is Democracy Still the Least Bad Option? In one episode of Battlestar Galactica — if memory serves — a character answers the question, “Why democracy?”Their reply: “Because it’s the most tolerable among terrible systems.” In another scene, from Horace & Pete, a heated argument between a Republican and a Democrat is pierced by a…
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Understanding Global Warming: Myths and Realities
Global Warming The term global warming is often misunderstood. Unfortunately, ignorance about technological literacy shows itself here too. We still cannot truly grasp the importance of this issue. There is a significant group of people who claim “global warming is a lie, it doesn’t exist.” In fact, in one of the world’s biggest countries, you…
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Understanding Our Inner Devils: The Core of Human Problems
The greatest mistake of humankind is inventing devils—and then forgetting why they invented them in the first place. They believe so deeply in these devils that they no longer try to understand them. Instead, they force them into predefined molds and push them away. Humans are weak. They fear confronting themselves. They fear rationality, reality,…
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Letters from Einstein: A Guide to Inner Peace
In 1933, a musician living in Munich—worried about the events unfolding around him and sinking deeper into despair under the growing oppression—wrote a letter to the famous scientist Albert Einstein, sharing his thoughts.(Einstein, as much as possible, tried to personally reply to every letter he received, regardless of who sent it.) In response, Einstein sent…
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The Illusion of Freedom on Twitter
Since my cousin went off to military service, he’s been repeating a phrase that struck me deeply:“Has your freedom ever been taken from you?” For some reason, I really loved this question.Actually, I had been thinking about it for a long time—since reading The Captivity of Will, maybe for 6 or 7 years now. Are…
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Living Together: Steps to a Stronger Community
“Dividing is easy. The real skill is living together—building community, embracing diversity.” Picture someone who’s lived alone their whole life and suddenly has to step into society. Maybe it’s a person moving from a small village to a big city. Or someone who spent years in isolation. Or a student who never built close relationships…
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The Cycle of Tyranny: From Democracy to Oppression
Plato argued that the result of excessive freedom brought by democracy is also excessive slavery. In such a system, where everyone has a say, the poor begin to seek justice against the rich and see them as enemies. Over time, when disagreements reach a point of no return, the majority—the poor—choose someone to lead them.…
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Anti-Vaxxer
Since the beginning of the pandemic, we have seen people opposed the rules, campaigns, pandemic measures and vaccination. Virus takes place more and more in our life every passing month and it is also normalized. This normalization creates a good opportunity for anti-vaxxers. Irrational measures in different countries, inconsistent rules, excessive force of governments, ignored…
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Marketing
21.Century is known as technology era or hi-tech era. Everything advances rapidly and we are catching the fantasies of sci-fi movie. However, I prefer to say, it is marketing era because whatever you do, without marketing you cannot be known. You can easily see ads everywhere. On the street, on your phone, all products you…
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Consumption of Everything
https://globechain.medium.com/sustainable-fashion-within-a-culture-of-consumption-54d064195319 Everything has started after the Industrial Revolution. The main idea was: ‘Produce more, consume more because you deserve it’. To produce more, specialists were needed. More specialist, more quality and of course quantity. As long as we produce, we consume. Everything had started to focus on ‘more’ and ‘better’. Not only properties, items we…
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