naming halts curiosity
Name-calling is labeling, which is a shortcut to feeling superior. Higher morality would require complex understanding, which leads to compassion rather than condescension. Worse yet, …
reduction
Binary thinking confounds reality
Our most significant flaw is binary thinking: winner-loser, zero-one, black-white. Binary categorization makes separateness and opposition fundamental. In reality, the world is highly relationally contingent. …
Processing is not thinking, belief is not a function
A computer is a processing machine. Not a thinking machine. It subordinates all things into processed information, anything unmeasurable becomes unimportant. "Belief" is not a …
Processing is not thinking, belief is not a function Continue »
It really is the small things
The idiotic little chores are tiny burdens, so miniscule as to be nearly invisible. And so we succumb to their inevitability, writing off that portion …