A wily political tactician may influence or deceive through emotional hypnotic suggestion to an unwitting neuropsychological susceptibility…
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Online: Political Polarisation ?
The fault, as it goes, lies not in the stars but in ourselves…
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Empty World
Some number of years ago now, I remember witnessing a filmic representation of something written by Charles Bukowski, its title eludes me. This was perhaps characteristically, miserably bizzarre and featured some peculiar and wicked strand of thought concerning a discovery that the narrator was the only real person and everyone else he encountered were soul-less, […]
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Enigma: Dissolution and Emptiness
The psychological self is itself so deeply intertwined with the world from which it accumulates its ideas and opinions that it is in itself actually profoundly empty and void…
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Minds: Individual and Collective
Have you ever considered that the myriad sorrows and insecurities we all share are really not ours at all?
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Contexts: Conflict and Collaboration
Ours is a world in which there exists immense and unremitting uncertainty and doubt…
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Pleasure or Happiness ?
While pleasure may predominantly be all about the possessions, people and experiences we collect and consume, happiness is probably much more about knowing when to let all of this go, of being unattached to things. Pleasure and happiness are not mutually exclusive but there exists a significant difference between them…
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Economics, Beyond Politics ?
We are still collectively attempting to build economic perpetual-motion engines of constant growth when the tools for building resilient emergent complexities into a potentially organic financial ecosystem already exist within our shared scientific and technical, conceptual vocabularies…
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Rhetorical Poverty: Revisited
That an opinion has been expressed may be a fact but that the opinion necessarily represents a fact (or truth) does not logically follow…
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The Compass of Time
This was a brief poem I wrote in 2001. The overall feeling is of loneliness and observing emptiness in others…
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Bad Decisions
Decisions, both good and bad, are indelibly inked in time and like the bell which having been rung can not be un-struck, we just have to learn to live with them…
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Justifying Imagination in Science
What can an education system starved of funds really do in the realms of blue-sky thinking and grand academic omphaloskepsis ?
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