Regardless of who we are or where we live one truth seems unmistakably clear; we live, work, play, think and just plain exist in two very different worlds simultaneously, while moving seamlessly between and within them in real time. The more obvious of these two realms is the physical ‘real’ world that lay all around us, the place where our physical bodies reside and the space in which we live and eventually die. And then there is the dominion of our (non local) consciousness, some might call it the ‘mind’, ‘soul’ or ‘self’, the place only ‘I’ may find me, myself and mine. Continue reading Two Ice Floes
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Enlightened Self Interest and Financial Industry Hypocrisy Ch. 3
Chapter Three of Three - We Are What We Eat
An Old Fashioned Rant By
Cognitive Dissonance
Something that has been understood for thousands of years, and only recently conveniently forgotten (the word ‘recent’ being a relative term) in order to promote, and believe, the myth of a protective and benevolent government, is that there has never been any inalienable ‘rights’ regardless of what the ‘Constitution’ says, other than those that are given to us by our masters (the politically correct term is ‘elite’) for social/political cover and expediency, or those we take (often from others) for ourselves. Continue reading Enlightened Self Interest and Financial Industry Hypocrisy Ch. 3
Enlightened Self Interest and Financial Industry Hypocrisy – Ch. 2
Chapter Two of Three - We Eat What We Sow
An Old Fashioned Rant By
Cognitive Dissonance
I've written before about unspoken and unacknowledged collective understandings, where the herd cognitively gathers in agreement as if compelled by a special attractor, but without clear and acknowledged leadership. The dynamics of crowd psychology are not well known to the average Jane and Joe, yet it does have an effect even when the crowd is widely disbursed. Some might call this the collective unconscious, others simply the collective will or the herd mentality. Continue reading Enlightened Self Interest and Financial Industry Hypocrisy – Ch. 2