At the root of all conflict is miscommunication. The language that we speak, the “babble,” (or “babel,” if you will) is the thing that separates us. The language is not just verbal, of course, but the verbal prompts (or the lack of verbal prompts) create the initial opportunity for miscommunication. Read more…
There used to be a lot of talk about great people in history. Books, philosophies, ideas, inventions, and other movements in the past were lionized by being included as part of an overall “canon” of history that people in a present age dutifully memorized, internalized, and regurgitated to the next Read more…
Ignorance. Distractedness. Forgetfulness. Prejudice. Lack of perspective. Intellectual weariness. Inconsistency. Missing the mark, either emotionally or logically. Intellectual apathy. Close-mindedness. Emotional pride. Intellectual pride. Vanity. Miscommunication. Half-knowledge, partial knowledge, or no knowledge at all. Our thinking (yours, mine, and everyone else’s who you know) are impacted by all of the Read more…
Chickens and eggs. The reasoning that we use to determine which came “first” is the same reasoning that we use to determine causation in decisional areas where correlation might be a better heuristic tool. The query regarding which “came first” blinds us to the fact that both the chicken and Read more…