Everyone enjoys listening to music every once in a while. One of the most used ways to experience it is through headphones. There are plenty of people who want to search for the very best sound, with no compromises; these people are called audiophiles, you can tell them apart from regular people by…
The chase for perfection is futile. Most often, it’s not our own ideals we chase, it’s someone else’s. There is a strong difference between the ideas of beauty in western and eastern worlds. The West always prefers symmetry, proportion, and all around eternal perfection. In Japan, things are very m…
Human beings are the most troublesome and irritating creatures on earth. We have ultimate control over the planet’s resources, but no control over ourselves. We have the power and knowledge to solve the problems we are facing in an instant, but choose not to do so. We are capable of living with kin…
The greatest danger to our future is apathy. We cannot expect those living in poverty and ignorance to worry about saving the world. For those of us able to read this, it is different. We can do something to preserve our planet. You may be overcome however, by the feelings of helplessness. You are…
When you teach a man to hate and fear his brother, When you teach that he is lesser man because of his color or his beliefs or the policies he pursues, When you teach that those who differ from you threaten your freedom or your job or your family, Then you also learn to confront others not as fello…
Containing one of the most haunting and impressive vocal performances ever recorded in a song, The Great Gig in the Sky is a legendary track from Pink Floyd’s album “The Dark Side of the Moon”. This song grapples with the themes of mortality, and our fear of death. The Great Gig in the Sky has no l…
A child’s world is fresh and new and beautiful, full of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of us that clear-eyed vision, that true instinct for what is beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we reach adulthood. If I had influence with ‘the good fairy’ who…
As I’ve been to both ends of the spectrum, it’s really interesting to compare the everyday life of a rural village and a bustling metropolitan city. The food is one of the major differences. When I lived in a village in Java, the food was very simple, eggs and cheap bean-based side dishes like tofu…
All mankind… All being equal and independent, no-one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty and possessions. John Locke – The Second Treatise of Government (1689) The Social Contract is a political concept developed by philosophers, first by Plato and Socrates, and then developed more d…
People think of education as something that they can finish. And what’s more, when they finish, it’s a rite of passage. You’re finished with school, you’re no more a child, And therefore anything that reminds you of school; reading books, having ideas, asking questions, that’s just kid’s stuff. Now…
The world has changed a lot in just a few decades, especially economically. I’ve heard a lot of work related advice from older people that simply doesn’t apply anymore in today’s world. I’ll discuss several of them in today’s post. Now of course this doesn’t apply to every single unique situation,…
I met a traveller from an antique land who said; Two vast and trunkless legs of stone stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, half sunk, a shattered visage lies. Whose frown and wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command Tell me that its sculptor well those passions read. Which yet survive, stampe…