BRAINWASHED - Soviet Mentality 01: Soviet Mentality – the Negative Legacy

BRAINWASHED - Soviet Mentality 01

Soviet Mentality – the Negative Legacy

     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.

BRAINWASHED - Algorithms 01: The Big-Brother Algorithm – X (formerly Twitter)

BRAINWASHED - Algorithms 01

The Big-Brother Algorithm – X (formerly Twitter)

     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. 

BRAINWASHED - Dystopia 01: The Future of Humankind – H. G. Wells (1)

BRAINWASHED - Dystopia 01

The Future of Humankind – H. G. Wells (1)

“The Time Machine” (Oxford World's Classics) (1895) by H. G. Wells

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     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.

BRAINWASHED - Bushido 01: Bushido Philosophy of Death [Related Post]

BRAINWASHED - Bushido 01

Bushido Philosophy of Death [Related Post]

“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.

BRAINWASHED - Anomalistics 01: The Resistance against Scientific Dogmatism - Charles Fort (1) [Related Post]

BRAINWASHED - Anomalistics 01

The Resistance against Scientific Dogmatism - Charles Fort (1) [Related Post]

“The Book of the Damned” by Charles Fort (1919)

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“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 - Ayn Rand 01: “Anthem” - faceless, nameless We & They

BRAINWASHED - Ayn Rand 01

“Anthem” - faceless, nameless We & They

“Anthem” by Ayn Rand (1938)

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An Adam and Eve's sad, but hopeful love story. People in the City have NO name, NO face, but actually, humans with warm blood. The famous “1984” by George Orwell was published a decade later (1949) after World War 2.