“A civilization that worships convenience will soon forget what freedom costs.“
Source: I lost the source, it’s just a quote from somewhere
ABOUT ME / CONTACT / RSS / Donate
Since 2017, I’ve been writing about philosophy, technology, and culture
I’m just searching for the truth. I might be wrong sometimes, but I keep it honest.
“A civilization that worships convenience will soon forget what freedom costs.“
Source: I lost the source, it’s just a quote from somewhere
Consciousness and thoughts are different things.
Consciousness touches only part of thought. There is subconscious thinking.
With consciousness, we just experience the external world.
But thinking is partly controllable. A thought can be moved, almost like a hand. You can direct it, return it, bend it toward an object, or pull it away.
But consciousness? consciousness cannot be moved like thought.
Consciousness presents the phenomenon of being. And this is truly gold to just be here, if we really notice it.
Regarding the previous post, “Life is a Test,” what interested me was what I wanted to say and what I feel.
For something good, hardship is what makes it stronger and better.
For something bad, problems make it worse and weaker.
But it is also a direction of truth.
If your life path is truth, you are going to get better no matter what tests life gives you.
If you are dishonest and seek low-level values instead of truth, those tests can easily break you down.
Great ideas, and perhaps many future great ideas, are syntheses of other ideas.
Bitcoin, for example, is a synthesis of cryptography and money.
A computer is a synthesis of the idea of number and the idea of machine.
Try to find a great combo. And not just a combo, a match, but rather a fusion. Its a stainless steel, not iron just mixer with silver. You got some fundamental experience but you move forward by finding great new combinations between them.
I think we do not understand objective reality well, but we live in a model of the world that our brain has constructed from each ones personal experiences, destiny and genetics.
The world of a child, a teenager, and a thirty-five-year-old person is different.
You live in your model of the world, not in the world as it truly is.
It takes hard work, deep understanding, and conscious self-refinement to comprehend pure reality as it is, at least at its most basic level.
Intellectual freedom is absolutely necessary for high quality thinking and real action. Long-term success is impossible without that.
A crucial part of freedom is allowing mistakes and criticism. Freedom is not a prepared path where every step is approved in advance.
We need room to try, be wrong, hear criticism, correct themselves, and learn. Without that, freedom becomes only a word.
Very often, almost everywhere, everything truly good, high, and valuable needs time.
You simply have to wait.
A tree grows for many years. You cannot buy that process. No amount of money can force it to grow in an hour.
The same is true for many other things: real ideas, strong projects, good brands, meaningful work, deep relationships. They need time to mature. They need years to prove that they are alive, strong, and worth trusting.
The best things rarely appear instantly. They ripen slowly. They become real through time.
People today admire artificial intelligence and create hype around it, as if it were something supreme. In reality, this is just late-stage capitalism spreading another narrative.
People seem to forget that artificial intelligence was created by the human mind.
The human mind, the reason, it is what is the highest. And it is ours. Sadly, many people often forget its true value.
It is what we should strive toward; it is what we should desire the most.
How often people forget this obvious fact becoming prey to capitalism and manipulative scams, striving for false, dead-end values such as money, sex, and glory — while the true gold is knowledge, the highest reason. I understand it’s continuous fight for resources, but still truth is truth.
Spinoza wrote well about the reason and mind and understanding, and the love of it.
Closing the blinds is not a confession. It is not an admission of wrongdoing, suspicion, or shame. It is a small boundary, drawn without apology.
Privacy works the same way. It is not designed for criminals. It is designed for people: for thought before speech, rest without performance, intimacy without audience, and freedom without constant inspection.
A person should not have to prove innocence in order to be left alone.
Found a quote in my notes, most probably it’s from the internet, sorry, but I forgot/lost the source…
My commentary: that’s right—the current system is not balanced, and hard times are coming, y’all.
Accept emptiness. Accept pain. Just accept it, and let yourself experience it. Don’t hide from it. Don’t replace it with something else. Just understand it.
I have known many hardships and much pain in life, and I know this: when you are alone, you learn to accept it. You take it as it is.
Then time takes its place. Slowly, what once hurt begins to change, and soon, you find yourself alright with it. Let time take its place. What hurts now will not remain the same foreve
People usually explain internet echo chambers in a very simple way: algorithms show users more of what they already like, so communities slowly become more radical and isolated.
That is true, but it is only part of the story.
A more interesting explanation came from researcher Petter Törnberg from the University of Amsterdam. His study showed that communities can become echo chambers even without algorithms pushing people in that direction.
The mechanism is simpler and more human. People leave when they do not agree…
In online communities, critics and outsiders slowly disappear because being surrounded by people who disagree with you is exhausting. Most users do not stay and fight forever. They mute the group, close the tab, stop posting, never come back.
Then the balance changes.
When one skeptical voice leaves, the community becomes slightly more homogeneous. Then the next person who disagrees feels even more isolated and leaves too. Over time, the group radicalizes itself not because everybody was convinced, but because the unconvinced disappeared.
This is what makes internet communication strange. Digital spaces look open, but they are actually extremely fragile. A real-life conversation forces people to stay in the room together. Online, leaving costs nothing.
So the internet does not always become extreme because people are manipulated by machines. Sometimes communities become extreme because disagreement quietly evaporates on its own.
Good music balances novelty with familiarity. On a neural level, music needs to surprise us, but it also needs something recognizable, stable, and trusted to hold onto.
Capitalism and all that, all this big-tech stuff — any large corporation, whatever sweet little thing it may have been in the beginning, will in the end become a dumb, all-consuming monster.
The essence is not only in the biggest structure itself, after all, but in its units, its cells — that is, in people.
All that struggle for resources, eternal confrontation, lucky/unlucky random — this is a normal process. TBH, I would not expect anything else here. Even our own cells are constantly confrontating each other in some way for resources and places. Capitalism and all those corporate structures SUCKS but THAT IS NORMAL (at least for this era).
But I suppose it is still worth fighting and improving all of it, so that at least it becomes cleaner to make it better, and all that. It is really quite a bad system for now, needs lots of improvement, balancing, but most people usually just agree and eat any shit other guys giving them. This is normal but not until forever.
I understand it is not perfect, bad world, but why we are all here? To improve it! And it is not LIFE who is to blame, it is UNIVERSE with all its ENTROPY and CHAOS. Its infinite fight of life with its pursue for ORDER against universe with its pursue for CHAOS. Yet still they are both together “in same boat” and can even sometimes find harmony in all that.
Only those truly live who have understood death completely.
It begins when the old taboos of primitive society stop working; when society grows, becomes more complex, and starts to change. At that point, human being begins to ask questions — and, more than that, is forced to ask them.
Something like this happened in the time of ancient Athens, with the rise of the first democratic forms of society. The old order, in which everything was explained by dogmatic taboo, myth, and religion, began to lose its power.
But this process is still not finished. There are still much of wrong minded forces trying to stop democracy, real philosophy, and open critical reasoning. They usually call people back to the “good old days,” as if the past was a lost harmony. But most often this nostalgia is only a mask: behind it stands oligarchy, defending its wealth and hierarchy against progress of open society
From the break with the old order came critical thinking: the first real tradition of asking questions. And from the same source came science afterwards. Good quality philosophy is the mother of science, it’s ancestor.
Knowledge begins when a person no longer believes blindly in what has been handed down by wealthy lords, but begins to ask, to doubt, and to try to understand for real.
But proper knowledge requires a proper method: a movement away from dogmatism and prohibitions, toward reasonable criticism, facts, openness, and the recognition of the universal rights of human dignity.
Only minimalism can save you from all this consumerism and capitalism , from all this bullshit. Besides, with minimalism you are always ready to move, ready to face any problem.
I mean it as a lifestyle.
I have been living like this for years, and this approach has truly proven itself: whether times are extremely hard or unexpectedly abundant, I stay mobile, prepared, and free from excess.
There is more to say, but I will not go into everything. Minimalism helps you stay free: you do not carry what owns you, and you do not take more than you need.
How little we, as human beings, grasp the depth and complexity of reality.
I look at the colour grey: pure grey, the exact middle between black and white. On a monitor, it is only a fill, a point in a transition, a calculated balance of light.
But then I begin to think of pure grey outside, on a wall, under real light. Suddenly it becomes something entirely different. It is no longer a simple colour. It is an event, a presence, a surface, a condition. It belongs to the wall, to the air, to the hour of the day, to my own perception.
The grey itself almost disappears, and what remains is the experience of it: the context surrounding it, the phenomenon of its appearing to me.
In that moment, I understand that even the simplest thing is immeasurably deeper than it seems.
I am curious asin the exact moment when the mind decides that information is true. Not truth in the abstract. Not a full theory of knowledge. I mean the practical moment inside consciousness when a person reads, hears, or sees something and thinks: “That’s right. That’s true.”
This moment is important because it often happens faster than reasoning. A person may feel certainty before they have checked the evidence. The mind accepts the information not because it has been proven, but because it fits.
It fits what the person already believes. It fits what they fear. It fits what they want to be true. It fits the mood they are already in.
That is where the problem begins.Today, people do not only search for information through search engines. They search through AI bots, TikTok, YouTube, podcasts, influencers, screenshots, comments, and short clips. Information arrives mixed with performance. It comes with confidence, editing, music, repetition, outrage, and social approval.
A person watches a video or talk to a bot. The speaker sounds sure. The explanation is simple. The comments agree. The claim connects with something the viewer already feels. Then the mind says:“Yes. That’s true.”But maybe nothing serious has happened yet. Maybe there has been no real checking. Maybe the person has only received a feeling of certainty.
That feeling matters. It is not meaningless. Sometimes the feeling that something is true comes from real recognition. The mind sees a pattern and correctly understands it. But the same feeling can also be produced by manipulation. Propaganda works because it can imitate the feeling of truth without giving truth itself. There is so much propaganda everywhere today. in
Propaganda does not always need to force belief. It only needs to make belief feel easy. It gives the mind a complete-looking answer. It removes confusion. It gives a target for anger. It creates a story where everything seems to connect. The mind, its simple, old ancient part, it likes that.
This is why the first feeling of “that’s true” cannot be trusted by itself. The real question is not only:“Is this information true?” The deeper question is: “What made me accept it?” Did I accept it because the evidence is strong? Or because it matches my existing view? Did I check it, or did I just recognize my own bias inside it? Did I find truth, or did I find a sentence that made my emotions feel organized?
There is a difference between truth and the feeling of truth. Truth can survive questions. The feeling of truth often wants questions to stop. That is the key moment: when questioning stops…
The mind becomes vulnerable when it treats certainty as proof. Certainty is only a mental state. It can be caused by evidence, but it can also be caused by repetition, authority, fear, group identity, or good presentation.
So the disciplined mind has to pause at the point where belief begins. It has to ask:“What is the evidence?”“What would prove this wrong?”“Who benefits if I believe it?”“Why did this feel true so quickly?”“Am I thinking, or am I reacting?”
This does not mean doubting everything forever. That is another failure. A person needs to believe some things in order to act. But belief should not begin and end with a feeling.
The mind falls into propaganda when it mistakes emotional certainty for truth. The search for truth begins when the mind notices its own certainty and questions it before obeying it.
That moment — the moment when the mind says “that’s true” — is not the end of thinking. It is exactly where thinking should begin.