A catalog of emotions
We live with a catalog of emotions, whipsawing between highs and lows. Most of the undulation is due to poor internal weather. We are not...
Tag: society
Together as spiritual completeness
It is human desire to share. It is also human desire to compete. The two — cooperation and competition — bleed into each other to...
Divided by tribes, sprinkled into individuals
Every mass system eventually morphs into tribes, balkanizing in the form of nation-states, denominations, political parties, and social media cliques. Those unproselytized, perhaps charged with...
The social variant
Nothing is understood in isolation – people make ideas boom or bust. Our orientation is social in nature. Most people dismiss new forms of thinking....
Unentangled preferences
Unentangled from our preferences, we run free to drift back and forth between disparate thoughts. After all, that is free will, the ability to hop...
Beyond logic, beyond greed
Beyond logic, stuck on wishful thinking, bias, and irrationality — it’s no wonder the world divides into tribes. The internet allows us to handpick the...
Don’t adopt other people’s anxiety
We rely on other people’s testimony. It’s no wonder, therefore, that their anxiety becomes ours. We then cognize every piece of information to fit our...
The script, the story
How many of us are just acting our way through life, adapting to different settings like chameleons? Situational elasticity lends its hand to the collaborative...
Face the facts
To weave through a world when there’s no anonymity and everything is discoverable — we are one google away from all the answers. But it...
A mirror on information
Journalists focus more on catastrophes than progress. They’re hard-wired to follow tragedy than highlight the good. Bad news and sensationalism sell eyeballs. Good news is...
The bullshit detector
You know it when you see it. Bullshit rings like a magic lantern, giving artificiality a spotlight. More people are susceptible to believing bullshit than...
Why people deny the facts
Everyone gets it. That rush of blood to the head when something or someone reconfirms your beliefs. You just knew it! But how often is...