Some time has past since I wrote an article about the misuses of social terms as a way to quickly sketch out an idea about how identifying into certain groups often morphs into a political issue; however

The art of government consists in taking as much money as possible to a class of citizens to give to another—Voltaire @Vieira's recent post on how social hierarchy works got me thinking. If you read his

Eastern and Western ways of thinking, or any kind of cultural characteristics, are usually separated as two distinct modes of interpreting what one understands. This supposedly contrary division might

Doctors are men who prescribe medicines of which they know little, to cure diseases of which they know less, in human beings of whom they know nothing.—Voltaire The State is easily the most destructive

Anthropologists, archeologists, philosophers, and all others studying the nature of man quite often take the mainstream approach that humans has been evolving for the last thousands of years and the subsequent

Whenever I browse social media, even here on Steemit, it's interesting to note how people give their opinions and arrange their thoughts in a manner in which they believe to be true. This is fine of course,

Writing is done by nearly everyone becoming so ubiquitous that you forget it's anything substantial or unique. After speech, writing is our only means of communication that codifies our thoughts into a

The use of contracts is the common way individuals, especially those engaged in business functions, come together and set forth conditions in which each side agrees on. Its primary purpose is to override

A criticism you'll often hear about people who hold onto firm beliefs without looking at the possibilities is that they are being overly dogmatic, rigid to the point of restricting or even causing additional

Don't read your fellow-strivers, fellow-workers...—Goethe I've been noticing recently, a yearning for intellectual and spiritual support among those going along with the reactionary sentiment against the

One of the most common things about our age, increasingly so as everything becomes digitized, is the impatience among people in regards to seeking information and knowledge. I understand this sentiment,

During my relatively short time on this planet I've come to realize truth is a never ending search, this should be obvious to anyone who engages in a life of ideas; but a challenging realization is that

What makes things work on their own is natural, simple, and beautiful aspect of life. It's a sophisticated aesthetic present in all things, it just takes a good eye to notice them and an even more sturdy

To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.—Amos Bronson Alcott Medicine, under the conventional way it's been understood, is the body of knowledge and system dealing with health in

I was watching some seagulls on a pier, it seemed like they were just chillin', but after paying close attention it came to me that they were waiting for something, either food or some signal to do something

Thinking about the subject of "natural rights" and the way justice is suppose to work, it's sort of trying to understand a misnomer; no such thing as rights exist in and of itself, however, when

...an offensive against the unpredictability, unpunctuality, general waywardness and cussedness of living nature including man.—E. F. Shumacher Over the past three centuries, a main feature about civilization

I was recently watching some of the Pipeline Masters, the last stop on the World Surf League tour in North Shore, Oahu, where I became sort of disturbed at the lack of general creativity and uniqueness

In North American vernacular it's common to distinguish South and North America as a separate continent. I don't remember the exact details of where or how this came to be, although the original Portuguese

A lot has been said about the current state of education, how bad it is or how things need to be changed. Not being part of its official milieu anymore, whenever I hear people mentioning anything about