That corporations are for profit is one of the strongest myths of our time.
26. Essay: On the thing itself
Are we still able to consider the thing itself?
25. Essay: On Success I
On success and what we consider to be so
23. Essay: On Difficulty
On difficulty and things we consider to be difficult.
19. On the phone
I lived without my smartphone for three days for a university course. Living without a phone is to live differently. It is a bit bizarre we have not invented a new word for the phone yet. Life companion or life organizer seems to be a more apt description. Perhaps we still cling to this word in order to trick ourselves to think we are not as reliant on it. I can live without a phone we like to think, perhaps we can but can others live without us having one?
18. Ideology big and small
Propaganda and Ideology only works if it total in character, not just big ideology in the speeches and grand gestures but it has to be there in the everyday, the things we don’t think about, the assumptions that are made for us which we accept without thinking. It is the small propaganda, the small ideology which seeps inside us without our noticing while we laugh at military parades and banners and think, “who can ever fall for such a thing”.