The Flow

We've all done something repetitive that we were able to do without thinking about it. Rather than use what I deem as glib a description as muscle memory, of an innate human ability to adapt movement to the responses of the nervous system, I call it either The Flow or doing God's work. I.e. there …

Stoic

"The reason why we have two ears and one mouth is that we may listen more and talk less" - Zeno, founder of Stoicism For the Stoics, the cosmos is a living, intelligent Being (God) whose essence is Reason. Reason guides everything in the cosmos, and the goal of human existence is to act in …

Group Minds

"Groups have never thirsted after truth. They demand illusions, and cannot do without them. They constantly give what is unreal precedence over what is real; they are almost as strongly influenced by what is untrue as by what is true. They have an evident tendency not to distinguish between the two." - from "Group Psychology: …

Beyond Good and Evil – F.W. Nietzsche

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.