A blog which I discovered through BlogExplosion, and which I now read regularly, is The Martian Anthropologist. Here’s an example of a recent article:
When is the last time you saw a bird slaving away for 50 hours a week? Has it ever occurred to you to ask why humans have to, but the other animals on this planet don’t have to?
There is a lie that most humans have bought into; that they must work constantly until they are too old to enjoy life, and only then can they stop working without guilt.
Working until you are 65 at a job you don’t particularly like, then retiring, is a lie. And it has been a lie for so long, people now think that there is no other way.
(full article here)
(once again, from my wiki, though this version is shorter…)
A “Creed of Death” (CoD) is my term for any belief (including religion), philosophy or political system which leads to death instead of life.
Note that I don’t mean “death” merely in the physical sense; in other words, I am not referring to some kind of suicidal cult, or a cabal of necromancers. 
I mean a “death in life”, a living death.
Continue reading ‘Creeds of Death’
This subject is somewhat related to a previous article here.
Surely (unless you’re a hermit or something) you have often heard (and maybe even said yourself) things like “it’s my/your brains that make me/you unhappy”, “simple, undeducated people are the happiest”, “I wish I was a moron like everyone else and didn’t think so much - I would be much happier”, “I wish I didn’t think so much”, “you shouldn’t question everything like that, it’s better to just go with the flow”, “don’t be such a freak, be more like everyone else”, and many more variations.
A lot of people, both intelligent and unintelligent, really seem to believe that. Which is sad, because, well, they are wrong.
Continue reading ‘Intelligence and happiness’
For the past few days, I have been thinking quite a lot about my past relationships, and, by an amazing coincidence, several friends have been telling me about theirs. And one particular response that has been coming up is something like “as if I’d ever put away with that…” - or, when thinking about my own relationships, “what the hell was I thinking?”
Have I become less tolerant? Maybe, but I’d like to believe that “tolerance” isn’t always a quality. Being “tolerant” in the sense of not being a bigot, of accepting different, unknown, new things in others is a quality, certainly (and a rare one, still, though humanity is slowly improving). But what about tolerance to things that are just plain wrong?
For instance, is it right to “tolerate” an abusive person? An authoritarian? Someone who demands respect for her feelings but doesn’t have a shred of respect for yours? Someone who demands that everything is exactly as she wants or she will leave? A guy who is obsessed about his car and forgets about you? A woman to whom the only thing that matters in the world is how tidy the house is, and who does everything in her power to make you feel like a monster if something is a millimeter out of place? Or what about someone who is insanely jealous and accuses you of flirting with other people every 5 minutes?
Continue reading ‘On relationships and mutual happiness’
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