Ethereal Insights

Painting by Arthur William Heintzelman Ruination | Friday – May 1, 2026 R uination indeed – that is the way of the world in this 21st century. Everything keeps getting ruined and worse, at least this is how I see the world, and perhaps this is why this post should belong to my " Personal Notes series "? No, It will not, but that would be a great idea, though not in line with my intentions.     The threat of a looming ruination is of course nothing new, at least not during the current deviation, and if you do not contribute your work and your "hard earned money", read "Gold", then you are out of luck I guess. See, the politicians will never cease to attempt to ruin the world further, because that is the only thing politicians know how to do – to cause great ruin. All of these ideas, ideologies , never seem to actually improve anything do they? Of course not, but people are stupid and feeble enough to still subscribe to this identity , because this is very ...

Hindu ( ॐ ) depiction of Vishnu ( विष्णु ) as Varaha ( वराह ) slaying Banasur ( बाणासुर ) The Problem of Borders | Thursday – April 30, 2026 B orders define our world, particularly international borders, largely because the modern mentality in its attempt to quantify everything within reach of the sensible leans into compartmentalization of all kinds, read particularly " Nation-States ".      For every quality that the moderns attempt to quantify, they have to impose limitations, and while they may seem arbitrary, which they are in a way, they are actually necessary, because if something is supposedly quantifiable, there must exist some number or some representation in the number plane that describe the outer limit, usually a lower and upper limit or bound, of the object in question, the object in view, and even if it is quite impossible to reach an exact and stable number or representation, it is often more than adequate to take the limits and allow the extension of th...

Banners for boys' day festival By Utagawa Kuniyoshi ( 歌川 国芳 ) What is Respect? Wednesday – April 29, 2026 R espect is one of those words that seem to apply in a rather peculiar way: should a thief show some kind of respect to his victims; should certain criminals be respected, while certain other criminals should expect no consideration, no respect, at all, etc?      Indeed, respect is a funny thing, a funny concept that seems to be a fairly loud expression of the modern deviation , particularly of individualism and a kind of American individualism . There are of course many other implications here: of course the humanist notion of individualism plays the biggest role, read " My Views on the 'Rights of Man'" , and I guess most other things in the modern world tend to be derived from this notion; in fact, it is actually quite hard to separate anything from the notion of individualist humanism; you see this everywhere, and I guess this is why the quantitative poin...