Tag: contradiction

  • Intolerable Contradictions: Egality vs Liberty

    There is a contradiction in appealing to equity and egalitarian outcomes in a society that proclaims individuality as a natural…

  • Protection paradox

    How do you protect transparency, while at the same time protecting privacy? Open access, transparency, and truth require openness, while…

  • Time management

    Hosteter’s law says projects you undertake will always take longer than you think, even when you account for adding time.……

  • Freedom as unfreedom

    To be united in wanting freedom has a paradoxical opposite where each free person wants something different from any other,…

  • the body can be unreliable

    Your gut produces instincts, which can steer you true. Your body also produces hormonal needs we can steer you into…

  • open horizon

    Openness is scary: agoraphobia sets in. Options are endless, uncontrolled chaos unravels: dreaming begins. Holding control and chaos simultaneously is…

  • I am free, and that is why I am lost

    To be free, or wholly liberated, is to have no map upon which to rely. The desire for stability and…

  • Strong pawns

    There are pawns who appear to be strong opinionated and competitive advocates for their side. Some people are malleable to…

  • if uniqueness is penultimate, then…

    We assume more liberty will allow unique individuality to flourish. But what if freedom primarily promotes libidinal fulfillment, which is…

  • Contradictions are System Alerts

    Frustration at contradictions is an alert: the system is not serving us. For instance: we have starvation amidst abundance. We…