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1 day ago

Either The One Way Or The Other

We can either be driven by the need to turn a profit (which is to say, by ‘the need to obtain the advantageous outcome’) or we can be conscious. We can’t be both — it’s always got to be either the one way or the other. What’s more — and…

Jean Baudrillard

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Either The One Way Or The Other
Either The One Way Or The Other
Jean Baudrillard

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2 days ago

Play That Denies Itself

The thing about life that we never want to see is that we inevitably miss the whole point of it! We miss the point of it every time… The point of life — so to speak — is that there is no point — life is playful, not serious. It’s…

Anaxagoras

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Play That Denies Itself
Play That Denies Itself
Anaxagoras

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4 days ago

The Conflicted Life

The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it’s dangerous because unless there’s oversight with regard to the operation of this machine then everything straight away…

Mental Health

10 min read

The Conflicted Life
The Conflicted Life
Mental Health

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Jan 29

The Stone On The Dung Heap

Everything has been sneakily inverted on us and because this inversion is too massive a thing for us to get our heads around we are well and truly trapped by it. We are trapped by our incapacity to see that there is (or could be) such a thing as the…

Alchemy

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The Stone On The Dung Heap
The Stone On The Dung Heap
Alchemy

7 min read


Jan 27

Mundo Privado

Whenever we elect a goal to be important — which is to say, whenever we decide that something shall be a goal — then we automatically create a private (or ‘self-centred’) world. This is such an utterly ubiquitous thing, and yet we never see it. This is something every one…

Purposefulness

4 min read

Mundo Privado
Mundo Privado
Purposefulness

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Jan 21

There is No Freedom In Games

When we’re playing a finite game then we are being controlled by our need to control. We are absolutely controlled by our need to control — we couldn’t be controlled more! Yet despite this we don’t see this as being the case, we would never see a game as being…

Finite Game

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There is No Freedom In Games
There is No Freedom In Games
Finite Game

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Jan 21

The Way Up And The Way Down

The thinking mind is a machine for turning a profit under whatever circumstances it might find itself in, and this means that it has to be operating in the context of a situation in which there exists better and worse. If there is no better and no worse then it…

Mobius Strip

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The Way Up And The Way Down
The Way Up And The Way Down
Mobius Strip

8 min read


Jan 15

The ‘Jinxed Task’

The thinking mind is ‘a machine for turning a profit’. It is there for solving problems, in other words. This is very useful at the same time as being (potentially) highly dangerous; it’s dangerous because unless there’s oversight with regard to the operation of this machine then everything straight away…

The Rational Mind

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The ‘Jinxed Task’
The ‘Jinxed Task’
The Rational Mind

9 min read


Jan 13

Society Is Based On Violence

Image — alchetron.com Human beings love to control other human beings and there’s no arguing with this — it’s what we do, it’s our number one preoccupation. We don’t want to admit it but this is how it is. Controlling each other is ‘the name of the game’, it’s what…

Ouspensky

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Society Is Based On Violence
Society Is Based On Violence
Ouspensky

9 min read


Jan 8

Knowledge Is A Projection

What does it mean to say that ‘everything is information’? The short answer is nobody can ever know what that means. No one can ever know what that means for the simple reason that there is no convenient external platform from which to know it. Even more to the point…

Entropy

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Knowledge Is A Projection
Knowledge Is A Projection
Entropy

5 min read

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