Actions follow being, or not
“Actions follow being,” wrote Aristotle twenty-three centuries ago. He meant that a thing can only act according to what it …
Social Policing
People see you happy, being yourself, or feeling yourself, and the balancing mechanism is to apply their internalized burdens (“responsibility”) …
too long a parasite
Any system of dependencies limits independence by encouraging a replication of behaviors: the reliance of the parasite establishes it’s behavior …
experience before reason
You must have experience before reasoning is useful. Reasoning leads to mutually incommensurate outcomes and antinomies: it is a patch …
the time problem with saving environment
People have a difficult time living out a set of principles that will bear fruit in 200 years. It is …
innocence is to be feared
Moral people behave poorly, while many with integrity have no rules. The recognition of this is to grasp absurdity and …
“nature” is not natural
Nature is a concept that needs to be clarified. If nature exists outside of areas man has civilized, then it …