Neil

Some good creative advice from the Bhagavad Gita: “It is better to do your own duty / badly than to perfectly do / another’s….”

Creation is an act. Action takes energy

The unexamined life is not worth living. – Socrates

The brain and nervous system constitute a marvelous and complex “goal-striving mechanism,” a sort of built-in automatic guidance system that works for you as a “success mechanism,” or against you as a “failure mechanism,” depending on how “YOU,” the operator, operate it and the goals you set for it. – Maxwell Maltz

Herman and Chomsky’s propagranda model revealed 5 filters through which media shapes thought: corporate ownership, advertising pressures, sourcing from elites, organized flak campaigns, and dominant ideology.

As Jung said, “Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it Fate.“

What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book because there would be no one who wanted to read one.

— Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Deat

Asked what he would focus on if he were to teach a writing class, the great essayist Henrik Karlsson said, “Becoming a person who writes well. Writing is not really about having a technical skill set. It’s deeper than that…Figuring out grammar and adverbs or whatever—that is kind of easy. The hard part is working to become a person who can think... See more

epiphenomenon.” From the Greek prefix epi- (meaning ”upon,” or “in addition to”) and the Greek word phainomenon (meaning "that which is seen" or "that which appears”), an “epiphenomenon” is something that arises as a secondary effect of some process. The steam from a pot of boiling water, the smoke from a fire, the smell drifting from a... See more