In ostensibly—but not really—trying to get to truth, instead of breaking down and dissolving illusions, academia is all about constructing more illusions. The logic here is the simple logic that two wrongs don’t make a right. It is the dark forest of technical terms and jargon that run rampant in academia—and the enormous amount of [...]
Posts Tagged ‘society’
Academia Sucks
Posted in Life, tagged art, philosophy, society, truth on April 30, 2012 |
One of the things I find myself struggling with is the fact that you can’t always combat violence with passivity. One of the reasons for this is the obvious fact that violence can end the life of the passive, who therefore no longer has the opportunity to defend or express his position and ideas. And [...]
Freedom Fighter
Posted in Life, tagged reality, society, truth on October 22, 2011 |
The tools that people use against people like me are many, and they are often subtle and complex. They make you feel that you are wrong, stupid, arrogant, that you don’t get it. By the means of their conditioning—that they do not understand the way things really are—they are unable to really love, and so [...]
We are all connected in being human
Posted in Life, tagged human condition, life, philosophy, society on July 5, 2011 |
I remember when I was studying a lot of philosophy, and when things were pretty bad [in my life], that I was feeling pretty hopeless, that I was thinking about life: “Is this it? Is this all there is?” I had gotten to a point where I was feeling like I had a pretty solid [...]
Part of the Problem or the Solution?
Posted in Life, tagged freedom, society, truth on August 24, 2010 |
One of the things about which I am most passionate is true freedom, real freedom—(the) freedom from controlling conditioning and ideology, religious, political, or personal. I am angry about the way the world is run by big business, that money is more valuable than people and life. That money is the ultimate motivation, supported by [...]
