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politics
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Capitalism or Socialism: The false dichotomy
There is hardly a more misleading dichotomy than capitalism vs. socialism. People think that we live in a global capitalist system, but in reality, and for practical purposes, we live in a socialism a
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Freedom and virtue
The other day I went to buy water and I found out that they had raised the price, it seems that all the local water distributors made a pact to raise the price to the same amount, leaving consumers wi
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Freedom and civilization
Just an observation about the effects of the so-called progress of civilization and human societies on our independence and freedom. When humans were engaged in hunting and gathering food to survive,
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The perfect push-up or the art of doing less
Today I want to share with you a Taoist inspired reflection on doing less. I once heard someone say that if you wanted to build discipline, you should focus on doing one simple thing every day, like a
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Who to trust when no one is trustworthy anymore?
Something that I hear a lot lately is that we live in confusing times, people no longer know who to trust, what the truth is, what is happening, since the mainstream media are no longer trustworthy, f
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Some thoughts on the way we perceive time
There is a small example that I like to use to demonstrate some flaws in our thought process and some wrong assumptions that we make particularly when talking about time. And it consists of the follow
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On whether power tends to corrupt
Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. That's a phrase that we have probably heard more than once and that refers to the fact that people who hold positions of power are usual
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Lies and political correctness
When I hear the term "political correctness", I hear an oxymoron, because how can the word "correctness" be next to the word "political"? Are not these two terms contradi
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On truth, and the reason why not everyone is ready for it
There is a phrase that says that "both good and evil cause death when it is sudden and excessive." We must be prepared to experience what we are going to experience, because when we don't, w
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Elections
As I write this, the international spectacle that the 2020 United States elections are continues, some say that Biden already won, others say that there was fraud, that the real winner is Trump, and I
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