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Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Jun 13

On the Origins of Asceticism

As Best Exemplified by Saints — How does one explain the denial of the world and of will by saints? What is it that enables these people to renounce all worldly indulgences? Religion answers by means of the miraculous but such answers belong to the domain of the ludicrous nowadays. How is it possible for the…

Psychology

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On the Origins of Asceticism
On the Origins of Asceticism

Published in Dialogue & Discourse

·Apr 30

What Elon Musk Represents

Four Reasons Behind his Greatness — Elon Musk is my favorite human being in this century. Imagining being a contemporary of great men, and moreover, suddenly running into them and striking up a conversation on the spot has always been a favorite thought experiment of mine. …

Elon Musk

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What Elon Musk Represents
What Elon Musk Represents

Apr 4

On Life

Diese Welt ist der Wille zur Macht — und nichts außerdem! Und auch ihr selber seid dieser Wille zur Macht — und nichts außerdem! But this is just a higher-level metaphor that only applies to complex life forms such as homo sapiens is. Fundamentally: all life seeks to expand. But…

Life

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Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Mar 20

On Technocracy

Beyond Open and Closed Society — Experts and people of knowledge should be chosen in every single domain as leaders. And the reason for this is as clear as the broad daylight and has been so since Galileo’s time at the very least: The belief in the supreme utility of science and the person of knowledge…

Technocracy

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On Technocracy
On Technocracy

Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Mar 15

On the Origins of Masochism

Masochism as a Byproduct Of Sadism — Sadism and masochism, are two of the mightiest and most deeply ingrained drives of mankind which are to be found in every person. Needless to say, the degree to which they exemplify themselves differs greatly, and only rarely do they border on a disorder. …

Psychology

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On the Origins of Masochism
On the Origins of Masochism

Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Feb 27

Pushkin’s Secret Journal

Written in the last year of his life: 1836–1837 — The diary was supposedly written by Pushkin during the last year of his life before he died in a duel to protect the honor of his wife. It was smuggled out of the Soviet Union and published in 1986 in the US causing an immediate scandal. Why? Because of its…

Pushkin

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Pushkin’s Secret Journal
Pushkin’s Secret Journal

Published in ILLUMINATION

·Jan 26

Why Is Geroge Soros Vilified?

And Chomsky is not? — George Soros, perhaps one of the two greatest investors of all time, unlike his counterpart Warren Buffet, is also an established man of letters and philosopher of some merit. Kicking off his philosophical discourse as a student of Popper, he abandoned it as one morning he could not make sense…

Politics

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Why Is Geroge Soros Vilified?
Why Is Geroge Soros Vilified?

Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Jan 9

Towards a Critique of Open and Closed Societies

Both are inadequate for the state of humanity’s development in the 21st century — The term ‘open society’ is nowadays used merely as a catchphrase in political and social philosophy. This essay treats the term as such. Nevertheless, it might be useful to once study its origins. The focal figure in the development of this term is Karl Popper. Karl Popper Popper is not so much…

Politics

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Towards a Critique of Open and Closed Societies
Towards a Critique of Open and Closed Societies

Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Oct 24, 2021

On the Greatness of the Jewish People

How? Why? — The list of contributions that the Jewish people have given to the Western civilization and thence the whole world is truly enormous. So much so that it would probably be a futile exercise to once stop and jot them down. …

Philosophy

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On the Greatness of the Jewish People
On the Greatness of the Jewish People

Published in Thoughts And Ideas

·Aug 28, 2021

On Spiritual Revelations and the Likes

An attempt to provide a rudimentary scientific explanation — A rather simplistic representation of human thinking reveals two fundamentally ‘opposed’ modes: The Focused Mode: essentially the mode that we are in when we are intensely concentrated on something, which reaches its height in Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of the flow. The Diffused Mode: a more relaxed thinking style related to a…

Psychology

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On Spiritual Revelations and the Likes
On Spiritual Revelations and the Likes
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