Dumbness and Questions

A question can not be “dumb”, “stupid”, or in general bad. That is conceptually and technically contradictory to state.

Stupidity (or equivalently dumbness) may exist in behavior or in a statement, where an incoherent and inconsistent conclusion from a set of prior knowledge, or such judgements having a set of prior knowledge, exists. Another word, knowledge comes first, stupidity could potentially come next. Reversing this process is technically problematic.

Purpose of a question by design is to seek knowledge. Not unless seeking the knowledge is regarded a questionable act, calling merely such pursuits dumb is by itself incoherent, inconsistent, and may well be called “dumb”.

Standing useless

To be a populist, argue in a way that is leaning towards one side of the social discourse, and take your position steep.

Fast way to be unpopular or ignored all the way is to “uselessly” stand somewhere in the middle struggling to convince the society that there may be more to the truth than where each side stands.

Like no other force

There is a good amount of evidence* that shows women like men’s vulnerability, but they don’t respect it. Men showing vulnerability appears “beautiful” to them so long as it is only said and not shown.

Women do not like men to be invincible because that state of men will be too confusing for them. They despise that confusion and lack of clarity but at the same time are pulled by its strong gravitational force.

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*I don’t know I just hope there is, otherwise I’m screwed.

World Cup 2022

The opening ceremony of the World Cup 2022 Qatar was disappointing.

This ceremony is typically perceived as a chance to show off greatness and celebrity and eminence of culture and way-of-life of the host’s; a commemoration of the history and background of its people and its land.

Qataris could have done a better job of showmanship of illustrating more exotic themes such as those of “One-Thousand-and-One-Night” and the like.

Trying to convince the West that you are a culture of tolerance and pluralism is a pathetic and pointless and lame attempt.

Be yourself, and if you are “bad”, be one very well.

... I see nothing

Social uprisings against autocratic dictatorships on the streets are emotional, are personal, exciting, full of heat and anger and sacrifices, and the more it ages the hotter it gets, more personal it becomes.

Such uprisings most often lack effective leadership, whereas dictators often have done well in eliminating any notable opposition. In such absence, uprisings are not meaningless but very well pointless.

The cause may be good but a good cause needs a battle well fought. More importantly, leaders are needed in the aftermath of the battle.

Very a few of uprisings have led to freedom, liberty, and democracy, if any at all.

At the end of that tunnel of uprisings, I see nothing.

You still can give up

You give up because you still have other options, or you think you do.

I never give up, not because I am such a determined person necessarily, but because I see no other way out, and I know it.

Human vs the Sacred

There is noting sacred about the so-called “declaration of human rights”, or allow me to put it this way, I hope not. Calling it “human” would be followed immediately with the idea that it is against the sacred past; the past that was magical and godly and metaphysical, and sacred.

Humanism, risen on the ruins of the gods, was flourished with the idea that pursuit of knowledge and ethics can originate not from the god, whereas “the god was already dead”, but from reason based on facts, more importantly and more precisely, our current understanding of the facts.

Human understanding could be diverse and and potentially subjective despite the ever struggle to avoid and evade such errors of the latter; whereas the former, i.e. the diversity is helping him or her to see the many aspects of facts.

Sacred is one but human is many; the sacred, if you will, could be the many a human.

You leave

“… this is what we always do, we always go in with our ideas change the world, and then we leave. We always leave. But the ball keeps on bouncing. “

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Charlie Wilson at Charlie Wilson’s War.

This movie was released in 2007. I wish Americans learned anything from the past.

Not too expensive

Nothing would have been too expensive if knew I would only live by end of the night.

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I was helped to wake up at around 2 in the morning by a drunk one screaming loud outside my window and thought how poor was I sleeping!

Angry

 You spoke loud but said nothing…

Economics of Love

The application of supply and demand dynamics in economics could be extended, not with much efforts, to other realms of human behavior such as supply of and demand for attention, interest, passion, and love; whereas is it not the case that demand and supply of such so-called non-material needs or wants of man are not independent of his spirit that follow an unbelievably predictable tendencies.

One could see that the price and value of love and passion and attention that an individual supplies are not from intrinsic properties of such emotions but follow certain and sufficiently finite set of external factors. These factors determine the economics of love, which may include level of supply, availability of supply of substitutes, i.e. love and attention from elsewhere, among others…

I must stop drinking...