Business

Anyone you are doing business with is not your friend.

Unpleasantness

Unpleasantness is something that happens to other people, except when it happens to you.

Altered State

If an altered state of consciousness is a normal condition, then it is no longer altered.

Who Cares?

Who cares whether or not God exists?

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.

"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.

 This explains a great deal about certain people: They're only "healthy" because they're functional.

Fear 2

Fear is a weapon for denial.

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.

Money

Money is a solid illusion.

The New American Dream

"The new American Dream is to get very rich and still be regarded as a victim."
                              - Charles Simic

Hate

Where there's nothing to love, there's always something to hate.

Gold

Gold may not always be worth having, but it's always worth stealing.

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.

Motivation

Motivation is for those with nothing better to do.

Can't Count

It's interesting how many accountants can't count.

Calm

The calm after the storm is a sign of exhaustion.