Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones. How I Found the Secret to Happiness While Totally Naked. Hidden somewhere in a pile of my own bad prose and abandoned bucket lists, in a tattered grocery bag in my storage room, lies the secret to happiness and peace.
It’s scrawled on a fifty-cent note of Canadian Tire Money, in dark purple Jiffy marker. Just four potent words, but they triggered a flood of insights into my life, and started me on the long and winding road to happiness. The night I wrote those words down, I was in trouble. I was marching down a career path that made me nauseous to think about, I had no friends nearby, no passions, no ambitions, no confidence. I had lost, by that time, any real belief in a bright future. The optimism I’d carried so easily through grade school was a distant memory, by then as alien as photos from someone else’s life. I was also totally naked. When you’re depressed you don’t want to leave the shower.
One night, when I didn’t even need to, I took a shower. I had a routine for this. Defeated, I stood on the mat and let the cold air flood over me. Bertrand Russell - Analysis of the Mind. Ron Eglash - Fractal Theorists. Is the Demise of Civilization Inevitable? By Debora MacKenzie in New Scientist DOOMSDAY.
The end of civilisation. Literature and film abound with tales of plague, famine and wars which ravage the planet, leaving a few survivors scratching out a primitive existence amid the ruins. Every civilisation in history has collapsed, after all. Why should ours be any different? Doomsday scenarios typically feature a knockout blow: a massive asteroid, all-out nuclear war or a catastrophic pandemic (see "The end of civilisation").
A few researchers have been making such claims for years. Some say we have already reached this point, and that it is time to start thinking about how we might manage collapse. Environmental mismanagement History is not on our side. Lester Brown of the Earth Policy Institute in Washington DC agrees. Others think our problems run deeper. If crops fail because rain is patchy, build irrigation canals. Diminishing returns There is, however, a price to be paid. An ineluctable process Is Tainter right? Credit crunch. A . Thebigview.com - Pondering the Big Questions. Nietzsche Quotes: Man. Family failing of philosophers. -- All philosophers have the common failing of starting out from man as he is now and thinking they can reach their goal through an analysis of him.
They involuntarily think of 'man' as an aeterna veritas, as something that remains constant in the midst of all flux, as a sure measure of things. Everything the philosopher has declared about man is, however, at bottom no more than a testimony as to the man of a very limited period of time. Lack of historical sense is the family failing of all philosophers. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.2, R.J. Hollingdale transl. Truth as Circe.-- Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal? From Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.519, R.J.
In the stream.-- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads. from Nietzsche's Human, all too Human, s.541, R.J. Not enough! The signs of corruption.