The “everybody does it” stance in life is one of the most significant factors behind modern man’s alienation. When one aligns his behavior, wishes, or ideas to those of the multitude, he distorts them, and ends up living a life that is disconnected from his inner being.
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The other day I wasn’t sure I existed. So I googled myself to be sure I did. There was my face, my book, my speeches, my interviews, even “my quotes” – selected excerpts from my book on Goodreads. I existed, alright! For the first time in my life (an …
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The New Zealand massacre from a new angle The digital world has obtained a life of its own and has now begun to conquer the real world. On the Ides of March 2019, Brenton Tarrant, an Australian white supremacist, entered two mosques in Christc …
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We have ceased to communicate, for we speak in sound bites. We have ceased to be ourselves, for we exist for the others’ gaze. We have ceased to be original for we conform to the multitude’s demands. Yet none is a more serious predicament than that.. …
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We live in the era of sound bites. The overwhelming majority of our communication has been reduced to posts, tweets, text messages, and one-liners. Attention spans have dwindled, and argumentative reasoning has been reduced to “the final statement,” …
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The gaze of others defines us. So long as we are alone, we do not possess an outside vision of ourselves to which our acts can be referred; we exist within our inner being, which has no identity and no characteristics. But when others enter the pictu …
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