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One of the false ideas that drive humankind is the fantasy of the Magical Other, the notion that there is one person out there who is right for us ... a soul-mate who will repair the ravages of our personal history; one who will be there for us, who will read our minds, know what we want and meet those deepest needs; a good parent who will protect us from suffering and, if we are lucky, spare us the perilous journey of individuation.

More people look for salvation through relationship than in the houses of worship. One may even suggest that romantic love has replaced institutional religion as the greatest motive power and influence in our lives ... the search for love has replaced the search for God.

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Informational Tourism Tourism is defined as "traveling for pleasure." You seek new places in search of pleasurable experience. Informational tourism is a similar phenomenon; it is traveling—metaphorically—through endless seas of information in search of some knowledge, facts, did-you-know's that are simply interesting. The problem with informational tourism is the same as with real tourism: the traveller is active, he searches for adventure and almost "studies" and tries to penetrate deep into the new culture he is in. While the tourist is passive, he goes to "popular tourist destinations" and expects interesting things to happen to him. The traveller steps away from his comfort zone and bears danger and estrangement, but the tourist, in a sense, never leaves the comfort of his residence. Informational tourists give the illusion of knowledge and wisdom, while in reality they are nothing more than trivia books on two legs. Many of those perceived to be educated or smart in the simple sense are mere tourists in the vast lands of knowledge. They pick up interesting, safe, and welcoming places to visit and get some souvenirs (trivia) to exhibit them back at home.

Reading is like eating, you have to give yourself the time to digest what you just consumed. Contemplation, reflection, discussion, argumentation, thinking and rethinking are way more important than mere ingestion of new information. A world so focused on getting so much done in so little time, loses the ability to contemplate, to fully understand and incorporate separate informations into the whole body of knowledge.

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Perhaps Osler was mistaken when he said that more diagnoses were missed because of not seeing than not knowing. Perhaps not knowing is what caused not seeing. The expectations of the viewer are the primary shapers of what is seen, and that the unexpected will often be missed. We become better seers when we have better expectations.

Courage, The Spirit of Daring and Bearing Courage was scarcely deemed worthy to be counted among virtues, unless it was exercised in the cause of Righteousness. Confucius defines Courage by explaining what its negative is. ‘Perceiving what is right, and doing it not, argues lack of courage.’ To run all kinds of hazards, to jeopardize one's self, to rush into the jaws of death – these are too often identified with Valour, and in the profession of arms such rushness of conduct – what Shakespeare calls, ‘valour misbegot’ – is unjustly applauded; but not so in the Precepts of Knighthood. Death for a cause unworthy of dying for was called a ‘dog's death.’ ‘To rush into the thick of battle and to be slain in it,’ says a Prince of Mito, ‘is easy enough, and the merest churl is equal to the task; but it is true courage to live when it is right to live, and to die only when it is right to die,’ and yet the Prince had not even heard of the name of Plato, who defines courage as ‘the knowledge of things that a man should fear and that he should not fear.’ — Inazo Notibé, Bushido

The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar (2023)

— The Agony of Eros

the Internet is “position[ing] the modern individual as a desiring subject, longing for experiences, daydreaming about objects or forms of life, and living experiences in an imaginary and virtual mode.” Increasingly, the modern self realizes its wishes and feelings in imaginary ways, through commodities and media images. Its imaginative faculty is determined by the market and mass culture.