Many of the goals that people pursue have less to do with the pursuit itself than with the pursuit as a means of externalizing a self-perception and aligning their own idealized self with the self defined and perceived by the world. Goals then become the sublimation of a desire not…
If there is a collective stupidity in the modern world, a tragicomedy peculiar to developed countries and played out ad nauseam in the media and popular culture, it is that of our perception of the human lifespan, which is just long enough for people to kid themselves about its laughable…
