Modern life is full of things that are not difficult to understand on a level of fundamentals, but become increasingly complex in layers of jargon in their modern manifestation. You can reduce some action such as buying a car to an exchange of a value store (money) for an item …
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Many things are "still going", but around me I can many traditions getting knocked away one after another. 1 Here are a handful of things in no particular order:
- shopping malls
- professional sports
- cafes, coffee shops
- public school, including "school traditions"
- holidays
- "work/home balance"
Growing up, these things were …
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Today I did some research on the current state of some places in the USA I've been to. Through sites like YouTube you are still able to view many videos of "eyewitness accounts"—people with cameras showing what they see. Likewise, there are the popular big news companies with more …
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Today's entry is about knowledge. Specifically, I want to discuss the nature of reading information in places like books and websites and how the activity of reading relates to acting in the world.
Collectively as a society in the USA (I mostly know California), there is great value placed on …
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In expressing my views on things like the Federal Reserve or the United Nations, I've been given labels like "cynical" or "pessimistic". I don't think that this is a fair characterization in the sense that I don't wake up thinking about how much the world sucks or how nothing I …
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Corona Virus Diary, Part 72
From our own experience, we can give testimony to what we have seen, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt. For things we do not experience direclty, we are relaying the messages of others. People who knowingly distort truth—e.g. to conform to some narrative they are paid to tell—we …
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There is this slang term butthurt to describe someone who responds very poorly to any criticism or joking. We should strive to never be butthurt, but instead take criticisms—whatever people/parties they come from—as opportunities to gain understanding of our own shortcomings and errors so that we can …
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A chilly November breeze pushes fallen leaves across quiet suburban streets. For the most part, the city scape is still. The robots are still doing their robot things—traffic lights will change when proper stimuli are applied, on some streets you can smell gasoline and hear leaf blowers, and the …
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One thing I've bought a lot of is books. In the US, growing up, we're told reading is good and having a large vocabulary is one way to "sound smart". Heeded uncritically, the advise "read a lot" can lead you to become more foolish and more vain than if you …
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