Plato's Cave and the Dogged Persistence of Ignorance

The famous allegory of Plato's cave is a great illustration of the cognitive trap of ignorance, where the individual is unaware of the limitations of their own perception.This place of ignorance is not just some dark cave, deprieved of light (information), it's an astral...

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Billions of Thundering Typhoons

We're pirates. Not the heart-bleeding Robin Hood types of heroes. We don't do rescues. Captain Barbossa, Pirates of the Caribbean Blimey! After a narrow escape from the mouse trap and a close call with a near indigestion from cheese holes last month,...

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Why ‘Good’ and ‘Evil’ Need Each Other

How ironic that the greatest human fear is dying (fear of the unknown) when we don’t and cannot die. It is this fear that drives the engine of the ‘health’ industry in all its forms and has turned the doctor into a demi-god. Oh, doctor, please save me, I don’t want...

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The Solipsistic Trap

In the wake of red, blue and black pills, another divisive concept is surfacing on social media: solipsism.But first of all, what does this barbaric term actually mean?Solipsism is an old philosophical belief according to which only our own consciousness would exist and everything...

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