City life is in decline, the consequence of Covid & Technology combined. Welcome (again!), to suburbia life.
Tag: consciousness
Fiction or non-fiction?
At the individual level, people have difficulties determining what is real and what is not. Thus they defer that judgement to some sort of authority. Or, even worse, they give up all efforts to understand and think critically. Welcome to the world of magical thinking.
Homo flirtatious / Homo koketus
Homo flirtatious? Yes. But come to think about it, we might as well refer to him as “Homo Ludens”.
Precisely what we need right now
Life, as we know it, came almost to a full stop. Financial worries aside, this forced time at home is exactly what we need. Here is why.
When the road gets rough/ Cuando el camino se pone difícil
In Gee’s Bend, Alabama, African American women have produced amazing patchwork quilts for the admiration of future generations. But, what’s so special about them?
An unbelievable little trick
Embrace the whole universe as it is and don’t let your mind attempt to interfere. Read Marukami if you want more down to earth ways to say the same. End of story.
A flawed argument in favor of population growth/ Justificación inadecuada en favor del crecimiento poblacional
Stop using the social security argument to justify population growth or even to justify economic growth at all.
The nomadic life / La vida nómada
Moving home seems to be the malady of the contemporary humans. But for how much longer?
The love=passion fallacy / La falacia de amor = pasión
Eric Fromm already busted the fallacy of love equals passion, less than a hundred years ago. Yet, we mixed up these two concepts, over and over again. Perhaps we should read a little more, mijo.
Memories and self-identity / Recuerdos y auto-identidad
Christiansted harbor at dusk, Christiansted, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands (2019) (Versión en castellano, abajo) Humans possess the unique ability … More