Ethereal Insights

Hanagami Danjo no jo Arakage ( 花上弾正少弼荒景 ) fighting a giant salamander By Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( 歌川 国芳 ) Prejudice | Monday – April 20, 2026 P rejudice, discrimination , segregation, meaning... These are of course different sides of the same coin, but in modern jargon they mean very different things. It is for instance acceptable to segregate different objects into different categories, and to, in this regard, allow the essence of one object to define that object, and even today most people would not mind this; in fact, it happens all the time. But what about doing this with human beings? Well, actually people do that as well all the time, but when it comes to human beings of course, it gets complicated, and because of all the complications inherent in division as far as humanity is concerned, the rule of inconsistency and contradiction takes precedence – the material tyranny .      To account for this confusion , it would be right to point to egalitarianism , but here e...

Hindu illustration of Vishnu's ( विष्णु ) main 10 avatars The Eschatology of the Kali Yuga | Sunday – April 19, 2026 E nd times... Is the world coming to an end? Why would the world come to an end? Is it necessary for the world to come to an end? First of all, let us try to understand what people, most people , mean by "the world is coming to an end". It seems fairly clear to me that for most modern people, the modern world ending is about the same thing as the entire world coming to an end, and this means that we should try to put into perspective what a world at the end really would mean, read " The End of History ". For most people, the end of the world does not mean a great Armageddon, it does not mean the complete and irrevocable destruction of all life on Earth. No, for most people the end of the world is far less destructive than that: for most people something as seemingly harmless as not being able to binge eat, read " Should Anorexia Become Norma...

Purple Orchids by: Alfonso Alberto Ramírez Alvarez Favorites | Saturday – April 18, 2026 F avorites... Why do people have favorites: favorite foods, favorite music, favorite literature, favorite animals, favorite politics , favorite people , etc, etc, the list can be made very long? Do I have favorites? Well, allow me to return to myself later, as this is a part of my " Personal Notes series ".      First of all, it would do you good if you understand the concept of favorites as an extension of preferences , a topic I often return to , and in turn an extension of some kind of individualism, and really it must also be said: favorites always describe the substantial in the object, never the essential. Secondly, I actually struggle quite often to understand the whole concept of having a favorite, mostly because the world is such a large place, and even the material world is really too large for me to just narrow in on some substantialism, if you will. I can admit that ...