Coronavirus II – Our Wealth Is Our Elderly
9 May 2020
The elderly have always been the most precious part of society. They have been considered the living depository of the collected wisdom, knowledge, and experience of every culture.
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Coronavirus I – The Arrogance of the West
14 April 2020
What’s the elephant in the room that nobody is talking about? This is no tsunami or earthquake or hurricane; the death toll, the mayhem and destruction we see in Europe and the US is manmade!
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When the Digital World Overwhelms the Real
1 September 2019
It is now beyond obvious to me that we have entered the era in which many people truly live in the digital world. Literally. The digital world is the only world they know. And when they go out into the real world, some of them feel the urge to reenact, like in a video game, the very actions they are engaged in while inhabiting this digital world.
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Digital Flooding
30 July 2017
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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But Everybody Does it
8 November 2016
It is supposed to be the phrase that vanquishes all opposition: “But everybody does it!” Or its corollary: “But nobody does it!” Your elaborate argument, your opinion and carefully expressed points, amount to nothing. Whatever you have just said or a …
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The Era of Sound Bites
23 October 2016
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 Others’ Gaze
23 August 2016
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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