Posts Tagged ‘Freak’
The advent of Internet, the changes it has and is forcing in a very short little time, has been a shock. A positive one, maybe, but still a shock. It is not new, though: I still remember my first toying around with an 8-bit computer, in those days when computers were isolated one from another. That tiny fever was the seed of what we have now. But what is it that keeps us so hooked on computers? And where to set the limit between proper use and orgy?
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Tuesday, April 13th, 2010
Tags: Absurdity, Addiction, Blogging, Brain, Climate change, Computers, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Evolution, Focus, Freak, Globalization, Habits, Information, Language, Life, Motivation, Multitasking, Perception, Personal relations, Proactive, Teamwork, Transcendence
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The success (by my current standards) of my previous post on our need of freaks made me think that I am not alone in thinking that this society lacks variety. Better said: it is not that it lacks variety: it (more…)
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
Tags: Beauty, Books, Creative thinking, Education, Emotional intelligence, Experience, Fascism, Freak, Growth, Inspiration, John Calvin, Learning, Nature, Originality, Paul Valéry, Perception, Personal relations, Poetry, Social conditioning, Stefan Zweig, Subliminal, Unconscious, Violence
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Today let me sing a little chant in favor of originality and personal difference.
We live tough times for originality. Our globalized world has turned all ranges of human experience into very standard patterns, so all of us are very alike, and most of passions have become collective. Even in those cases when (more…)
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010
Tags: Advertising, Albert Camus, Beauty, Books, Carl Gustav Jung, Consumerism, Creative thinking, Difference, Education, Emotional intelligence, Emotions, Experience, Freak, Globalization, Growth, Habits, Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Learning, Mind, Motivation, Music, Originality, Ortega y Gasset, Perception, Person, Personal development, Personal productivity, Personal relations, Poetry, Social conditioning, Subliminal, T.S. Eliot, Transcendence
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