Articles in the Society Category
Posted in Society on 16 July 2007
Equality means that both parties are in the same level, respected and treated according to the same standards. This is the theory, but in practise we seldom face it in reality. Unfortunately we have created this system ourselves and thus are responsible of the results as well. We are living among double standards.
Read more..Posted in Society on 4 July 2007
You are surrounded by your past. All the tangible items and assets represent the earlier achievements. The same applies to your monetary wealth as well—it is only storage of your previous efforts and endeavours. The past is not the future; you need to create something new in between.
Basically everything goes through a cycle of creation, [...]
Posted in Featured, Personal, Society on 2 July 2007
Current politics is based on this principal.
Read more..Posted in Personal, Society on 29 June 2007
It is assumed to be noble to live for others. This nobility can take many forms and some of them can be very difficult to identify. Still, in most of the cases the underlying motive is not benevolent even though the appearance tells a different story. Selfishness has many disguises.
No doubt serving and helping others [...]
Posted in Personal, Society on 27 June 2007
For a few centuries we have gotten used to a trend of centralisation in almost all aspects of our life. The centralisation of power, money, influence, businesses, professions, education, health-care, defence, and energy are only a few examples of the current way of the world. Fortunately things do not have to be this way in [...]
Read more..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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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, [...]
