Articles tagged with: politics

Short Insights, part 2
Posted in Personal, Society on 15 September 2008

- Happiness is living without expectations.
- You can own silver and gold but never any fiat currency issued by someone else.
- Life is what happens when you jump out of your mind and use your senses.
- Time is the sequential experience of movement in consciousness.
- We seem to rely on systems, not people.
- No system [...]

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Social Welfare by Government Actions?
Posted in Economics, Society on 14 June 2008

The purpose of this essay is to address the role of government for private market and to find out the extent and the scope that government’s involvement with private establishments can be justified by economics. It seems to be assumed that government has a fundamental and necessary role in the business of private enterprises. This is not merely an assumption—it is the current paradigm and dogma.

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Illusion of Right Action
Posted in Personal, Society on 24 January 2008

We seem to be very efficient, but unfortunately this does not mean that we are doing the right things. Saving the environment is the next new trend. Everyone wants to get involved and be part of the latest fashion. But below the hood not much have changed after all. The methods are the same and [...]

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Society for Dummies
Posted in Society on 23 January 2008

How can you set-up a society like ours in case you want to repeat the current model from scratch? The instructions are very simple but do not expect people free willingly to align with your system.
Give people an illusion of control but take away their power. Centralise decision-making power away from local level where it [...]

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Short Insights
Posted in Personal, Society on 15 January 2008

“Politics is not about public interest but someone’s special (economic) interest.”
“Life is about giving, and the rest is taken care of.”
“Nothing has any meaning except the one we give to it— everything simply is.”
“Humbleness is all it takes.”
“The impossible happens when the possible is ignored.”
“If you don’t know what to do, meditate.”
“The (future) wealth is [...]

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Peace
Posted in Featured, Personal, Society on 16 August 2007

Everybody talks about it and still we don’t seem to get our house in order.

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The Formula of Politics
Posted in Society on 22 July 2007

Why is politics often associated with corruption, dishonesty, and shallowness? You may be surprised to notice that there is a common denominator underneath that we have often forgotten or just haven’t bothered to think about at all.
Franz Oppenheimer once described the only two ways to work in a society. The first is based on voluntary [...]

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Something for Nothing
Posted in Featured, Personal, Society on 2 July 2007

Current politics is based on this principal.

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Decentralised Society
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 [...]

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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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