The BEST and ONLY mathematical romance ever. But also a comical and poignantly cynical critique of Victorian society. “Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions” (1884) by Edwin Abbott also challenges our narrow fixed ideas and prejudices through various dimensions.
Georg Simmel (1858–1918) defines ‘fashion’ as a social form balancing the tension between individual differentiation and social imitation. It acts as a non-cumulative change mechanism, allowing individuals to conform to a group while distinguishing themselves from others.
Through fashion, you can belong to a society, and at the same time, express your unique personality.
As a Russian speaker, I have maintained friendships and relationships with people from the former Soviet Union (the USSR) for decades. Actually, I’m NOW writing this post in Kyiv, Ukraine, in the middle of the ongoing war.
Of course, there exist millions of people with millions of personalities in each nation ALL over the World. So I should refrain from concluding a specific nation’s personality as the one. Having said that, no one can deny the fact that there are specific archetypal inclinations of the personality in a specific country, even in a region, a state, a city, or a community, reflecting their unique history and traditions.
I loved and enjoyed Twitter for over a decade. But it's a shame the X (formerly Twitter) is NO longer Twitter in fact. The X algorithm is a malicious Big Brother to watch and control public opinion as they like.
Surprisingly, H. G. Wells (1866–1946) wrote this monumental, very impressive science fiction at the end of the 19th century (1895). It's yet a decade earlier than Albert Einstein (1879–1955) published the special relativity in 1905, and then the general relativity in 1915.
“Bushido means to die.” — This is the famous declaration at the beginning of the book “Hagakure (葉隠; meaning ‘Hidden by Leaves’).” The “Hagakure” is one of the few books systematically expounding the Samurai’s code of conduct, written by a Samurai, Tsunetomo Yamamoto (山本 常朝; 1659-1719) in the Edo period as a spiritual and practical guidebook for Samurai.
Having said that, a Samurai was NOT mandated to give up his Life easily in vain. If so, a Samurai didn’t need to carry two Katanas (刀; Samurai swords) on his waist all the time to protect his own Life. Everyone, including you and me, is destined to die somehow at a moment in our lifetime, even though NO one knows When the end will come. NO human has ever lived without dying over millions of years without exception. So it’s the most important, How to die, and What for to die at any time when we MUST die anyhow.
“A Procession of the damned. By the damned, I mean the excluded. We shall have a procession of data that Science has excluded.” (Chapter 1, The Book of the Damned)
“The Book of the Damned” is a monumental, revolutionary endeavor that Charles Fort has established a NEW discipline, the Anomalistics. He respects raw facts that science has ignored and rejected, and calls them “the damned,” which dogmatic mainstream science and the conformist scientists have excluded. But as he shrewdly pointed out as “rhythm of Heavens and Hells,” the authority of science is fleeting, and the paradigm is shifting All the time. Remind Copernicus, Newton, Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and the next is coming soon… This shows how our views and knowledge are narrow, partial, frivolous, and precarious.
BRAINWASHED - Culture 01 Tragedy of Culture – Georg Simmel (2) Culture makes us happy. Civilization makes our lives worthy and valua...
