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TREASURE HUNT

Over the last few weeks, a truth has dawned on this seeker.

Internet is flooded with opinions … answers … narratives … theories … viewpoints … self-promotions … whatever. Almost every person on our beloved planet is able to share something of that kind with almost every other person on the planet. This is in fact a mind-boggling gift of technology.

Thank you, Internet!

But there is clearly a HUGE down side to all this. What is an individual to make of this unprecedented, incredible information overload?

THE TRUTH LIES WITHIN, AS DOES THE TEST OF TRUTH.

In the absence of these two crucial elements, an individual is literally lost — drowned? — in the flood of information.

Therefore, instead of hawking yet another opinion … answer … narrative … theory … viewpoint … whatever … Why not try something else? 

Why not prompt … provoke … nudge … prod … the search for answers in the recesses of the individual mind? That should be fun!

Questions will be posted — or, to be more precise, points to ponder. The hope is that these will generate answers. Not ‘perfect’ answers, of course, because there is no such thing. But honest and authentic attempts, offered to others in the spirit of sharing.

Join the treasure hunt!

Watch this space.

KARL MARX, THE PROPHET OF GOONS – Part 3

Truth requires no coercion. Any moderately intelligent person can make choices appropriate to him or her, based on what is available and feasible. Any healthy human society runs on the basis of average people making innumerable such ‘common sense’ choices. This, in practical terms, is what the average person understands by the word ‘freedom’. 

Depriving a society of such freedom leads to misery. Despots – that is, glorified goons – deprive a society of the vitality that springs from this freedom.

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