What is Maximum Advantage?
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Unpleasantness
Unpleasantness is something that happens to other people, except when it happens to you.
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Altered State
If an altered state of consciousness is a normal condition, then it is no longer altered.
Sunday, May 23, 2010
Friday, May 21, 2010
Creativity = Insanity?
Dopamine System in Highly Creative People Similar to That Seen in Schizophrenics, Study Finds:
High creative skills have been shown to be somewhat more common in people who have mental illness in the family. Creativity is also linked to a slightly higher risk of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Certain psychological traits, such as the ability to make unusual pr bizarre associations are also shared by schizophrenics and healthy, highly creative people. And now the correlation between creativity and mental health has scientific backing.This explains a great deal about certain people: They're only "healthy" because they're functional.
"We have studied the brain and the dopamine D2 receptors, and have shown that the dopamine system of healthy, highly creative people is similar to that found in people with schizophrenia," says associate professor Fredrik Ullén from Karolinska Institutet's Department of Women's and Children's Health, co-author of the study that appears in the journal PLoS ONE.
Thursday, May 20, 2010
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Fear
1. Few wish to face their fear.
2. Fear is power.
3. Putting a face on fear can ensure anonymity.
4. Few wish to face their fear.
2. Fear is power.
3. Putting a face on fear can ensure anonymity.
4. Few wish to face their fear.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Saturday, May 15, 2010
The New American Dream
"The new American Dream is to get very rich and still be regarded as a victim."
- Charles Simic
- Charles Simic
Thursday, May 13, 2010
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Technological Mesmerization
Technological mesmerization is a useful tool for occultation of economic reality. It can be especially useful in the generation of spectacle at the expense of those believing themselves to be a majority. A minority within a minority may always focused upon in an effort to delegitimize the offending cause or movement. Kooks love the camera. You can always find enough of some objectionable idiot to focus upon. The news comment sections abound with it. Laziness is easy.
Although often successful, and for that very reason is always exploited to Maximum Advantage in all Things, this approach degrades national cohesion by sowing long term divisiveness for long term gain. As an end product, something is objectionable to someone, and society therefore writes itself off. Fragmentation is a failed identity. Even as it isolates further, people will try otherwise. Crisis may create real change, but nothing else will.
Although often successful, and for that very reason is always exploited to Maximum Advantage in all Things, this approach degrades national cohesion by sowing long term divisiveness for long term gain. As an end product, something is objectionable to someone, and society therefore writes itself off. Fragmentation is a failed identity. Even as it isolates further, people will try otherwise. Crisis may create real change, but nothing else will.
Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Monday, May 03, 2010
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