we over-estimate ourselves as rational beings and underestimate the immense power of our collective subconscious and the immense influence of our environmental and historical context. intelligent, complex systems emerge from our collective beliefs and actions, and just as they can create wonderful things, they can also hold us captive through our collective denial, ignorance, arrogance and fear.
the resulting paradox: accepting our irrationality and contextual captivity with grace and humility gives us the tools to overcome these same limitations…now if only i can overcome my caustic cynicism…
lastly, this page does nothing to describe the actual purpose of the blog. so cheers, and enjoy! or not.
Jolly good ramblings. I particularly enjoyed your discussion in the comment thread about veganism and morality. I stumbled on in via a google search for “human carnivorism” (curiosity mostly, I do a near zero carb diet). I know it can be unrewarding to do any kind of activity online that you leave open to the public, so I just wanted to say good on you.
Keep up the being awesome thing.
Thanks for dropping in and for your comments! I hope that some of the discussion has been provocative for you! :) but yeah, logical inconsistency is a big red flag, whether it is mine or someone else’s…wherever it exists, i believe we must ask, “what’s REALLY going on here?”
-e