Subjects that should be taught in a global curriculum:

1 Arithmetic and statistics

2 Computer Programming and human resource Management

3 Physics and Geometry

4 Law and politics

5 sociology and religion

6 mother tongue

7 second language

8 standardized world history

There was a time when being able to speak and write flawless English, or Chinese, or Japanese, or whatever language, was the highest skill one needed to prove one's abilities to be ensured a high social standing and a comfortable income. In those days, it made sense for society to reinforce to value of language, and for the individual to invest much time an energy into memorizing the nitty gritty details of the rules of language as set out be the elites. But let's face it. Those days are over.

Perhaps the most dangerous idea that human beings invented, is that of opposites - that opposites are identical to negations.

Four there will always be: the governor, the architect, the merchant, and the citizen.

Aka the politician, the engineer, the businessman, and the voter. T

Aka the negotiators, the dreamers, the witty, and the innocent.

Aka the scheming, the fools, the liars, and the stupid.

If an infinite loop has already been running for an infinite amount of time, can we say that it doesn't have a beginning?

「人並み」を人生の平均値と思われるのは、バブルです。本当の平均値は0です。だから人生はどうにかなるものです！

Women are not inferior to men. They have simply outsourced the less important bits of life to men, and made them think it's all that matter.

人之初、性本irrational.

Boys use words to express
Girls use words to exclaim
Men use words to explain
Women use words to evoke

Who am I?

Who am I?
In usernames and passwords
Do we not answer ourselves every day?
Why do we pretend that philosophy is a discipline only for quiet personal contemplation?
Aren't we in an age where it is everywhere?
Don't give in to those in power.
Being human is just a protocol
To serve you to the beast
And crunch your bones in your sleep.

I believe in total free speech - that you're free to express any opinion. But I also believe in the value of the social etiquette that's been repeated since forever in geekdom : Don't feed the trolls.

Life is like a treadmill when the only way to get somewhere, is to make that same journey that gets you nowhere over and over again.

Life is the process of fighting death.
The young and the old, the newborn and the dying, we all live the last day of our lives over and over again, whether we realize it or not - just that all the time we manage to postpone death. Every single day is a bonus, every single day a second chance. Nothing is ever too late, and never too early. Why are we always so tempted to think that death is so far away and focus on the dying breath when it is constantly just one night away?

tradition. religion. ideology. nationality. language. science.
what is it that we gained in exchange for such a host of divisive paradigms that try to arrive at the same conclusion through conflicting nomenclatures that give people in power so many ways to play their political games?

Maybe the reason we think extremists are beyond reason, is that we are afraid their reasons may be compelling, and are not ready to allocate them our patience and resources to hear them out?

We quarrel not because we're so different, but because we're so alike.

The problem with the word tradition is that it is a word. By making it a word, we strip it of its fluidity. There are no dying traditions. Once you call it tradition, it's already dead.

Random thoughts on selling prices

The problem with capitalism is that it attempts to abstract all experiences and human conditions in terms of resource ownership. The problem with meritocracy is that it lends credibility to the idea that your deserve the resources that you own.

What if prices were all suggestions and you pay any price you think goods are worth, but you'll be taxed for whatever you underpay, measured according to your earning power?

That means a cup of coffee can be marked $1 no matter where it is sold, but you're free to pay $3 if you really enjoy it, and your taxes suggest that you pay $6 if you earn 6 times the average salary, or you can overpay someone else instead. Your quality of life cannot be improved by increasing consumption, but rather by the choices you make.

Would it work out?

The nominal value of money would lose its current meaning, but isn't it how it should be?

Anxiety is the state of being perpetually distracted by the future.

The value of history isn't in learning from mistakes but informing us no society is an absolute truth, that we're free to make new mistakes.