Don't Think Again

Transnational enterprises and companies are very similar to pirate fleets roaming around the ocean trying to secure their "territory". And territory, for companies, is nothing but market-share. Lots of companies battle to raise their market-share, executives get hired (recruted) to win battles, and then they get fired (dead) when they don't do that well. More than simple linguistic similarities, the whole state-of-mind of warring is brought to the corporative world. And the Zen books about strategy and working together fit nicely into this: The Art of War for the executive (from Sun Tzu ). I'm not very fond of the corporative world, but this bothers me somewhat. What makes me mad, however, are the terrible effects we get whenever those "war" concepts get transported to fields like education and social assistance.

Socialism and capitalism are concepts or ideas that feel somewhat outdated. Socialism and the whole bunch of countries that adopted it towards some extent have become obsolete. This obsolescence isn't only caused by the victory of capitalism, and China is a nice example. Capitalism and other forms of war have also shown themselves to be more trouble than they're worth. My point here, if any, is that a discussion between these two opposite points of view is rubbish. Wanna be socialist and help the poor? Find ways to give them money. A capitalist's take on a socialist line of thought. Old habits might die hard, but this is too much.

Haven't you ever got up in the morning and felt sharply aware of your own inadequacy? Actually, inadequacy might not be the most accurate word. Not for me, at least. I'm not that inadequate. Well, actually I am, but it doesn't show. Soon enough I'll undergo a terribly harsh change. I think it'll be tough at the beginning, and then it'll be very cool. Cool and tough might seem like different things, but they usually come together, and they escalate. Works like a charm: fear and awe, side by side. Allow me to illustrate with an example: Batista and Dexter from the TV show . Batista, on one hand, is a chubby and friendly spanish-speaking cop, who has a bad marriage and ends up in trouble whenever he tries to get laid. He's a character that the audience can understand easily. Dexter, on the other hand, is a blood-spatter analyst that kills murderers in his free time. He's familiar, because he tries to blend in with everyone; but he's a serial killer,...

My personality wishes sometimes that living would be easier. Instead of having to deal with all the chaos, differences, fights, misunderstandings and misdeeds. Having a different life, or maybe even a different world: a neat world. I'm not a Buddhist. Maybe I should have followed the path of the zen master, the way of stillness, the calmness of heart. Maybe I oughta have treated better everybody I ever knew. Maybe I wouldn't be like this now. I'm running completely free here. No morals, no code, no honor, no remorse, no feelings or any other boundaries. At least, there isn't any I can see. I only bind myself to ethics. I love the idea of Ethics. You can't really compare morals and ethics, because they're completely opposite. Morals are imposed onto someone else, while ethics emerge from yourself. Morals are usually good to control and punish, whilst ethics usually make people get out of control. Mostly, when everything is going according to plan, you c...

The title of this post isn't something I wrote myself. Actually, it's a line from a movie called The Fountain (imdb link) . This is a movie from 2006, and it has very strong visual and story. I watched it twice already, but it wasn't enough to get me convinced that Hugh Jackman was the guy playing the main character, Tom. In short, Tom can't get himself to understand that his wife is dying from some sort of brain tumor, and Tom plays the doctor-role: trying to save her, instead of being with her. The storyline is made from three different timelines, and it's a really compelling film, especially the part about the way that the maya civilization sees death. My grandpa has been going in and out of ICUs for the last year or so. He's got a series of complications involving heart problems, lung problems, kidney problems and so on. He isn't gonna get better. I'm trying to be realistic here. If you'd asked me a year ago, I'd say he wouldn't be a...