Friday, 13 April 2012
Insomnia
When your hear the birds begin to sing, you know beyond a doubt you have been seeking sleep and failing for far too long.
Thursday, 12 April 2012
Monday, 9 April 2012
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
Monday, 2 April 2012
Wisdom
Wisdom, on the one hand, seems the most important thing in life. But aren't wisdom and happiness mutually exclusive, I wonder?
Monday, 26 March 2012
Bureaucracy VI
Take this, bureaucracy!
"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves richer - except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand.
"Somehow it seemed as though the farm had grown richer without making the animals themselves richer - except, of course, for the pigs and the dogs. Perhaps this was partly because there were so many pigs and so many dogs. It was not that these creatures did not work, after their fashion. There was, as Squealer never tired of explaining, endless work in the supervision and organisation of the farm. Much of this work was of a kind that the other animals were too ignorant to understand.
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Stupidity
Every single day, human stupidity amazes me anew. There is truly no end to it.
Einstein comes to mind:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein
Einstein comes to mind:
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
--Albert Einstein
Thursday, 22 March 2012
Success
There is something seriously wrong with our definition of success. I think it is the cause of a great many problems in our society.
Some definitions:
1. The gaining of fame or prosperity;
2. The attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
-- John Steinbeck
Some definitions:
1. The gaining of fame or prosperity;
2. The attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.
“It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.”
-- John Steinbeck
Be kind, be generous, be open, be honest, be understanding and feeling, and fail in this wretched society. Goodness is not rewarded.
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