Why Your Ego Needs to Die Before You Die

People of the crowd define themselves by the feedback of the crowd. People who have overcome the necessity of defining themselves by such means are called individuals and prefer their own company already. Those people like themselves and have already gone through a sequence of events which happen to those in solitary. Generally, men and …

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 …

How involved are you, and what with?

If someone laid a choice before you, would you compulsively choose? Of course you would! As you go through news and media, when you form a view, when you take part, you choose. When you watch a sport, or take part, you take a side. When you argue with a partner and take opposition to …

What is Oxford Syndrome

In a city where education is everything, one gets to see the elevated snobbery, the pinnacle of the educated mind, and the imaginary status it lends to the crowd-mind on a daily basis. Oxford syndrome is therefore the obsessive inflation of the self-image based on a narrowed field of specialised education. "These stories reflect two …