If you want a new job, a badass car, or a European tour of the ruins of the Roman Empire, that means you don’t have it. Obvious, maybe, but there’s wisdom in the unexamined obvious. What I want, I do not possess. What I possess I no longer want. Wanting … Keep reading
If you’ve got a gutter-mind, as many do today, the word desire may as well mean lust. If it isn’t about lust, it’s about food. Food, or status, or money. What do you want? If there’s no barriers to a good answer, then there can no surprises. What you want … Keep reading
I sometimes find myself doing things that I know aren’t good for me. Whether through past experience or conscious judgment, I know that the outcome won’t be good. I’m going to pay for this. Yet here I am, doing it anyway. How much of your life runs like that? Don’t … Keep reading
Music, foods, TV shows, movies, clothes, places to travel, things to buy, it’s all fashion trends. You think you sprang to awareness, a fully formed rational creature, with the in-built desire for whatever thing you saw while scrolling Tick-Tock vidyas? Next time you feel a greedy desire slithering its greasy … Keep reading
Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance, they say. Unless you’re an economist, the weatherman, a financial trader, or any of the blistering geniuses who predicted 1000x the death rate of Corvid Nineteen by consulting their Minecraft servers. Here’s the thing about determinism. Focusing on the past requires … Keep reading
In a human body, a single living cell that acts for its own “wants” can grow out of control and threaten the whole person. We call that cancer. We have a word for things in nature that do whatever they feel like without limits. It’s interesting that we don’t really … Keep reading