guidelines for making a world that is worth living in

#1. Do not change the world. Incremental changes always lead to the same old. Create anew.

#2. Do not think big. The true tools and values of any given society are not in its macrostructures, but instead in the day to day social affairs. Focus on the mechanics of living.

#3. Avoid transitions. They hide the false assumption that perfection will arrive some day. Turn fresh beginnings into a habit.

#4. Avoid values at all costs. All social movements led by values and morality derail into dogmatism. Base your actions into ideas that you can turn into metrics.

#5. Assume misunderstandings. Negotiation is not an exception, needed only in problem situations. Negotiations are the centre of society.

#6. Accept violence. Society is not a means to stop us from killing each other, but a better control mechanism for our killing abilities. Learn to use violence consciously.

#7. Be beautiful. Be strong. Be happy. YOU ARE THE WORLD.

constantly learning

I`ll easily admit that i make too much out of coincidences, and i talk about them all the time, and this might bogus the most striclty scientietifically inclined of my readers, i’ll even admit it sometimes sounds a little too fairy-dusty to meselfe, but i came sometime ago to a realization about synchronicity that can make it look extremely reasonable.

Sinchronicity only means that every ocasion is an opportunity to learn.

the place for blind faith

Walking around Ica i came to realize that we despise religions mostly for their blind faith, but that, at the same time, it’s neither possible or desirable to get rid of blind faith. Again: not desirable.

It’s just too easy to find gruesome examples of blind faith, but there is also another dimension to it. We need blind faith — or something like it — to make us strong and beautiful. It’s a matter of pedagogy, and of politics.

not atheist

I don’t and can’t consider myself an atheist. Part of that comes from my deep disgusm with the rabid and dogmatic campaign against religion that the likes of Dawkins and N are conducting. But that’s just part of it. There are other, more subtle and complicated, or maybe even more important, issues at hand. For, you see, my current position is such that a casual observer would never see the difference between my point of view and atheism.

For lack of a better word, let’s call it ananthropomorfism.