Ethereal Insights

Photograph of the Atlas globe Is the internet good or bad? Wednesday – October 1, 2025 While the internet has surely enabled cross border communications on a vast scale and connected people across the globe in a way never seen before, I do hold that there are some clear downsides to the advent of the internet. My view in short is that the internet can be a good thing and also that the internet can be a bad thing. I don't however believe that the internet is good in and of itself; I don't believe this about anything. Once upon a time not that distant, people used to complain about books, in particular young women being exposed to the ideas that many books carried, but also in how books once more and more people became literate slowly but steadfastly changed the world and how people interacted with the world and in a sense the internet is a part of a process of information becoming available to more and more people. In the distant past, only few learned men often monks could read...

Tiger Diorama in the natural history museum Is might right? Tuesday – September 30, 2025 I once again ask you to consider the tiger, excellent in form and feature, the product of survival, of blunt and hard refinement and perfection, the tiger exists in perfect harmony with nature: do you really believe that this magnificent creature, this apex of nature, asks for permission? What does right and wrong mean to the tiger or indeed the forces that have shaped the material domain? Let the howling, cold, and stone cutting wind be your answer: the forces of perfection do not ask for permission and they do not hesitate; they simply exist and they simply act. The tiger is the product of the force in perpetual motion, and in that way the tiger is surely the polar opposite, the diametrical opposite of humans, the biological accident that is humanity. Indeed, for every man, even the man without conscience, there is such a thing as right and wrong, but be under no illusion that the creator of the ...

Suruga Satta kaijo ( 駿河薩多海上 ) Utagawa Hiroshige ( 歌川 広重 ) Should you reject medical intervention? Monday – September 29, 2025 Quick note: This is a somewhat controversial issue and I once again need to reiterate that I am by no means a medical professional and I am not trying to give medical advice. The purpose of this post is simply to explore the ethics of rejecting medical intervention, from a metaphysical point of view. I am by no means trying to suggest that someone should reject medical intervention, unless they themselves have reached that conclusion. This is not me trying to coerce someone into or convince someone to reject medical intervention. This is just my opinion.     To begin with, it is clear that from a perhaps more oriental and fatalist point of view, rejecting medical intervention would be in keeping with the tradition that all things happen for a reason and are bound by the intentions of the laws of the cosmos, and from this point of view it would therefo...

Photograph of the Atlas globe Why am I in favor of plastic surgery? Sunday – September 28, 2025 If there's anything I've been sure to notice about the world it has to be the fact that people are seemingly more and more obsessed about their appearance, physical appearance, and while this has been a feature of the world surely since the dawn of man, it just seems to me that it has become worse and worse. I think that the advent of modern technology in particular has accelerated this trend: in every corner you can be sure to spot a man or a woman taking a picture of himself or herself, this is colloquially referred to as a "selfie". I think that since people are bombarded with information on the internet about how other people appear both spiritually and physically that a lot of people are quite frankly confused, and this is why I actually endorse people doing plastic surgery on themselves: I believe that it would be in keeping with the trends of the modern world to simp...

Lego tiles by Vadim Bogulov What is identity? Saturday – September 27, 2025 Identity is one of those things in life that can be rather hard to define, but identity is also something that exists all around us and with us at all times, whether we like it or not, and the only way to truly get away from or escape from the confines of identity would indeed be to retire from the world: it would require you to completely leave the social and human context that has shaped you behind and this would for most people be quite an impossible feat. But identity is also an aspect of social dynamics, of social life, that is largely conceptual and constructive. That is to say: identity is not a quantity that defines the person, but rather the quantity (the identity) is defined and shaped by context, and one individual is not really enough to evoke a complete conceptualization of an identity; multiple people have to be put in relation to the identity, and in this sense it's also quite in keeping with...

Photograph of the Atlas globe What is the point of public transportation?  Friday – September 26, 2025 The official narrative is that public transportation often in the form of subways/undergrounds/metros, buses, commuter trails, etc are supposed to bring people together in an efficient manner that at the same time enables those people to travel across a certain defined region, often a city or across a part of some municipality or sub-region, and while you can say that the intentions behind public transportation is good, I would have to say that I am not a fan of public transportation and I believe that the idea that people should happily pay taxes, often local taxes, to fun these endeavors is nonsensical. Why is it that the state should be allowed to make it so hard for men to travel without having to both pay for it and force them to come together across social lines, across the strata created by the anthropological limit/distance in any given society. Notice that there are two i...

Shanghai's flow What is the Shanghai-Mumbai Axis? Thursday – September 25, 2025 Well, in short the Shanghai-Mumbai Axis is the future, whether your sorry western ass likes it or not. I know that I'm being sassy and all, but it stands clear to me that white people and Europe are dying out and that the tiger is rising in the east. Indeed, the world will revolve around China and India by 2050, and both of those countries will overcome their cultural differences, and they will form an alliance, an alliance based on common goals and common interests. Indeed, the Shanghai-Mumbai axis will usher in the new paradigm: the technological axiom and they will both defeat the western world and once and for all prove the cheap talk of egalitarianism and democracy wrong: they will take the world in a storm and white man won't even see them coming. Of course, the Shanghai-Mumbai axis will usher in the African century as well, as they eventually will run out of steam, but their alliance will...

Political Propaganda Poster Should you engage with politics? Wednesday – September 24, 2025 In my humble opinion there are really no valid/legitimate reasons to engage with politics, but allow me to explain why. What is politics? Well, I've discussed that topic in previous posts and you can find them all under the label " Politics & Ideology ", but in short: politics is basically the allocation of resources in order to change or alter the fundamental circumstances of life in the material domain, and in any society there are different forces that would favor allocation or reallocation of resources in desperate directions (the have and the have-nots), and this is often illustrated by the left-right divide, where left-wing forces tend to favor allocations of resources downwards from the top down, and where right-wing forces tends to favor hoarding of resources at the top of, and they do this by defending the status-quo, and sometimes they may seek to return to the status...

Photograph of Taj Mahal ( ताज महल ) How do you discover yourself? Tuesday – September 23, 2025 First and foremost allow me to pay homage to those men that still struggle on the high seas, those men that know not of their native glaze: they are truly fools, but they have been fooled by themselves and by the propaganda of the serpent; indeed, such men are lost, lost to the tides and the cause of the high seas. Do not become like these men – embrace the profound insight.     Why should you discover yourself? In the material domain it becomes quite necessary for any man that wish to remain sound in his mind to remove himself mentally and spiritually from the material order, indeed this is the great cause of most of the great metaphysical traditions: but why must you remove yourself from the material order, the materialist context, to remain sane? If you seek the light, you must seek profound meaning within, and if you seek profound meaning within, you must remain clear in you...

Photograph of a Kenyan tribe Kargi, Kenya What is the " Anthropological Distance "? Monday – September 22, 2025 At what point or at what distance—briefly returning to the subject of hatred that I covered in part two of this series —does the human connection become so diminished that it becomes replaced by the political object of the out-group, the foreigner, the alien, and the outsider? This phenomena of group dynamics or inter collective politics (politics between groups/collectives) is what I have decided to coin/name the "Anthropological Distance", and my question concerns how and when this distance becomes so large that human relations transitions from somewhat equal and cordial or somewhat common grounds to hostile or unequal grounds ripe for conflict, and this is something that can be observed in most social situations and it is a core part of group dynamics, especially once certain conditions that can be described have been meet: indeed these conditions occur...