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Believe me.
Something essential in life is learning how to love struggle—problems, conflict, fights. Otherwise, they will overwhelm you. I learned that early, and in my own way, I came to value them. Life has given me a lot of harsh things, honestly, ever since childhood. I’m a full orphan, raised in aggressive Russian ghettos, but I…
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Cut Luck; Don’t Trust the Crowd
The opinions of foolish people shouldn’t worry an intelligent person. It’s like a seeing person relying on the advices of the blind. Big amount of people are blind in mind—mostly because they’re busy chasing money or pleasures. And usually they’re led by other big blind men whom luck tossed to the top; then they run…
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Humanism
A competent philosophy is the religion of the person of future Dogmatism is irrelevant, it just doesn’t move Ask questions and find answers. Make mistakes and improve The universal answer is the human and the community What is a technology without us? Ain’t nature already tried enough to create something truly wonderful? The main answer…
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Progress
Progress is not always straightforward, don’t blindly believe in anything new, neomania often leads to nothing but noise. Simple, stable, practical things win. Observe critically. Progress is resilience, not speed. Over time, only robust solutions will endure, as complexity fades away.
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Priorities
A balanced, intelligent mind can handle almost any challenge effectively, but it needs time to adjust. A collaboration between such minds is even more beneficial. To allocate energy well, focus on intellectual and humanistic aspects, use these as a foundation to apply open-minded, critical thinking. Everything will turn out well then. End-road values like cults…
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Biased Reporting
Almost all modern newspapers & media have lost the point and, as a result, the quality. Their duty is to find and present reality facts, but the try to push their own opinions, selling biased information under the guise of truth. Money and greed drive them toward impudent manipulations. Take any modern media outlet, and…
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Conspiracy theorists
It’s always better to doubt and ask questions. We are quite limited creatures to really know all the reasons, and our mind often creates a lot of illusions for us too. So it’s just safer to have a critical mind, a factor of survival.I used to think it was a little dangerous to recommend something…
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Understanding what you don’t like
It doesn’t take much intelligence to criticize just everything you don’t like. It’s significantly more challenging to try to understand the intricacies – to ask open questions, not dogmas, to focus on comprehending proportions and percentages rather than isolated emotional colored incidents, to act more humanely, therefore, wider.
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Emotional Thinking
Why do people support charismatic but misguided leaders today? Why is there a rise in populism in politics? The post-modern era has led most people to think and choose based on emotions, not rationality, similar to advertising techniques that focus on stimulation rather than conscious thought. This leads to various problems. Emotional thinking isn’t inherently…
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Untitled
Don’t believe anyone on the internet today; do not let your emotions take over the reason. Always double-check facts and sources. There is so much misinformation everywhere these days. In this modern internet-driven world, we face the dark age of information overload, resource mismanagement, supersaturated ignorance, and greed. Why is this happening? It’s simple: we…
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Сriticism tone
People who throw dirt criticism on everything are usually self-affirming… but it’s a bad tone, an unfaithful approach. Be beautiful and accurate, discuss/criticize carefully, clearly expressing understanding and openness to the other sides that may be unknown or misunderstood to you. Anything else, don’t blindly pour buckets of criticism, but try to understand the essence…
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Artificial values
Never “marry” ideas, even if you’ve invested a lot in them, we humans are very complex creatures and it’s normal to make mistakes sometimes. It’s better and easier to be open and say “I was wrong, OK, let’s move on, at least I learned something new” than to constantly destroy the path by those wrongly…
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Religions
I can’t stand their dogmatism, their lack of critical thinking. To maintain and translate good quality cultural code we need real philosophy, not religions. Be open, ask questions.