Using the media to determine how well the world is doing is like using an emergency room for an image of health.
Using the media to determine how well the world is doing is like…
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Monthly Archives: November 2011
There is this illusion…
There is this illusion that humans have been evolving to fit what we call cultural, social, economic, and technological progress, when in fact the only elements that survive are those that evolve to fit humans.[Procrustean bed]
Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions…
Stoicism is about the domestication of emotions, not their elimination.[Two centuries of commentators have failed to understand the point.]
Becoming a stoic…
Becoming a stoic sage is to transform of fear into caution, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.[In my modernized version, Chapter x ]
Peace is the result…
Peace is the result of incompatibility of vices, such as greed and hatred.