Occasionally Moose have some interesting ideas; I write them down...
It’s New Year’s Eve – no doubt many of you will be thinking about making New Year’s resolutions and, like every year, they won’t make a lick of difference. This week, I thought I’d change tack and go with a practical ‘how to’ for making Read More …
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the illusory self, and encouraged a healthy scepticism regarding the things you feel are ‘right’. I claimed that, often, the things that we feel are the right thing to do are very much the wrong thing, themselves the product of Read More …
Christmas is around the corner. For something that used to be so awesome as a kid it’s amazing that, for many people, Christmas isn’t fun at all – it’s a stress-filled hell, stuffed with nightmares… So this week, I thought I’d write about being present without Read More …
So, last week I wrote about how we can protect ourselves from the consequences of memetic hacking (if not the hack itself) by learning to distrust the consistency of the self, and being suspicious of our urges – rule of thumb: if it feels “right” Read More …
A while back I wrote about memes and how they can ‘hack’ past our consciousness (here). I suggested that some concepts, like religion, are particularly effective at getting past our conscious defences because, as ‘sticky’ memes, they are able to trigger a wide range of fundamental human Read More …