In our age of free and wide distribution of information, it saddens me to observe how poor the average person's understanding of history is. A century and a half after Tolstoy offered the world his War and Peace masterpiece, many people still see human history as a sequence of heroic and villainous actions performed by extraordinary individuals. As long after Darwin published … [Read more...]
The Good Old Days: thoughts on the nature of human pessimism
The good old days, les bons vieux jours, los buenos viejos tiempos, die guten alten Tage, старые добрые времена, οι παλιοί καλοί καιροί... all human languages I have intimacy with host standard and widely-employed expressions that associate the good with the old.Since one comes to this observation, it does not take a leap of an assumption to intuit that this association is a … [Read more...]
Africa: A Sole Superpower In Incubation?
Fervent debates are currently underway aiming to predict the allocation of power in the future geopolitical stage. Economic analysts and futurists forecast the imminent downfall of the US-dominated status quo and herald a new, multipolar world order, where states such as China, Russia, and India vie with America neck and neck for global supremacy. Many of them altogether fail … [Read more...]
The Problem of the Republicans
The Republican senators in the USA voted today against Donald Trump’s impeachment. It seems the demagogue still sways his whip over the party.One wonders why they decided to keep him when they had the opportunity to get rid of him. Is it because they like him? Politicians are intrinsically as competitive as 3-year-olds... if anything, they must feel envy and grudge towards that … [Read more...]
Microchip, DNA-Alteration, and Other Nonsense: Anti-Vax Conspiracy Theories Debunked
The Coronavirus pandemic has presented designers and propagators of conspiracy theories with a whole new cornucopia of lucrative opportunities. The conspiratorial con-artists’ imagination has lived up to the occasion above and beyond, producing a wide array of wild fantastical tales to cater to the deception-prone, overly-skeptical public’s insatiable thirst for … [Read more...]
Would there be enough food if everyone went vegan?
Many people, vegans or vegetarians, will tell you that if everyone went vegan, there would be at least as much, if not more, food to feed the world's human population. For the umpteenth time in my life, I was told that thing again in a comment on another recent article of mine on veganism. This is the comment:Hi DimiI agree and disagree in many of your arguments. I especially … [Read more...]
Why do People go Vegan… Should EVERYONE go Vegan?
Veganism, year after year, is growing into an increasingly hot topic. During my multitudinous encounters and miscellaneous conversations with people around the world, veganism, aside from it becoming a more and more common subject, I have also observed it evolving into a steadily more fanaticism-inspiring one. Indeed, the zealotry exhibited by many vegans is hardly matchable by … [Read more...]
The Universe: A God in an Egg
Out there... Someplace amidst the vast oceans of possibilities; somewhere and somewhen that where and when do not bear a meaning; in some fiddling, eerie corner of everything and nothing... A God is about to lay offspring.BOOM! A new world has just erupted into existence. A bubble of squashed energy is set to expand expeditiously, laying down dimensions along its passage; … [Read more...]
How Imagination Creates Reality
Imagination is commonly understood as the opposite of reality. We typically define the ‘real’ as what can be perceived by our senses and the ‘imaginary’ as what cannot be perceived by our senses. Dreams of both dormant and awaken state, ideals, fairytales, fiction of any sort... are all regarded by us as unreal products of our imagination. Thus a widely accepted definition of … [Read more...]
The Airbnb Culture: the profound impact home-sharing algorithms are having on global civilization
Like many other Internet companies, Airbnb has had a radical impact on the way society and economy function. Impact on property prices worldwide and fundamental disruption of the traditional hospitality industry are just two of the many ways that this and similar companies transform society and culture. One of the least discussed and most profound impacts that Airbnb is having … [Read more...]
