Articles in the Personal Category

Democracy is a Tyranny
Posted in Personal, Society on 26 June 2007

Don’t’ get deceived by the looks or even by the words, observe the underlying reality and the deeds. We are not living in freedom—actually we might never have. Only the forms of suppression and abuse have been changing along the centuries, sometimes with a figurehead and more recently only with symbolical representatives.
Oxford American Dictionary [...]

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Responsibility
Posted in Personal, Society on 24 June 2007

We like to have our freedom. It is great and fun to explore and extend our boundaries. We love to take the credit for our actions, but only selectively. Positive consequences are naturally ours to claim but what about the not so desired effects?
Freedom and responsibility go hand-in-hand—the greater the freedom the greater the responsibility [...]

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Money is not the wealth
Posted in Economics, Personal, Society on 19 June 2007

Money is only a medium of exchange. It is not the wealth. It only presents the future wealth we believe it can provide us in form of goods and services from other people whom we hope to accept our money in an exchange for our desired goods and services.
Wealth is created by people who produce [...]

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System of Ethics
Posted in Personal, Society on 15 June 2007

This is a very compact but complete system of ethics. It is very simple, brief, and yet powerful based on the following:
The Guiding Principal
All (human) beings are born equal and remain equal every day of their lives.
The below Principals are only sub-principals for the first one
2) Person is the measure of all accounts. [...]

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The Growth Paradigm
Posted in Business, Economics, Personal, Society on 2 June 2007

We focus on growth—it’s everything. Our current economy is based on the ever-expanding growth paradigm. It does not work without it. Our monetary base grows every year. Valuations need to grow, as well as profits and revenues. The society is driven by this growth mania.
And how do we do this? By producing and consuming more, [...]

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How and Paralysis by Analysis
Posted in Business, Personal on 10 February 2007

We tend to be very practical in our thinking. It all culminates into question—how? How am I going to do it? How is it possible? How did you do it? Many questions and very little answers. If you were to know the means you would not bother to ask—you would just do it. But how [...]

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An Opportunity Disguised as Distress
Posted in Personal on 7 February 2007

Is your life in distress – maybe your career, personal direction, relationships, work, or all the above? A cul-de-sac can be a major issue with no easy way out. Still, the answer might be closer than you have realised.
Our reality is the product of our own thinking. It is built upon our assumptions, beliefs, past [...]

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The Cart Before the Horse
Posted in Personal, Society on 27 August 2006

A society is decaying when it is interested in only of the effects and not in the causes. What happens when the ‘needs’ are of most importance and the ways to satisfy them are despised? A moral decline.
Who does not have any needs? We all do. Newspapers are full of ‘needs’ to be fulfilled. They [...]

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Liberty
Posted in Personal, Society on 20 August 2006

We regard ourselves as civilised but seldom we bother to define what does it really mean. Civilised is often confused with something modern and thus better than previous. But how can it be per default that something is better simply because it comes later?
Human history is a history of serfdom and slavery. A tiny minority [...]

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Double-Standard
Posted in Personal, Society on 16 August 2006

In our personal life we assume to be treated fair and just. We assume to have the right for things we have earned and thus achieved by our own effort. We are not claming the unearned. This is what we call justice. Everybody takes care of their own business and respect others’ similar rights as [...]

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