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Adesso basta (Simone Perotti)
Il vero rivoluzionario è un individualista consapevole
Il vero rivoluzionario contemporaneo, quello che può seriamente far tremare l’establishment politico-economico, è oggi un consapevole, cocciuto, equilibrato individualista, che parte da sé, dal suo mondo, ci lavora sopra, fa di tutto per essere libero e consapevole come essere…
Chi non ha dubbi è invulnerabile
Frequentando il mondo politico e i top manager capii che alcune persone erano più persuasive di altre, e infatti quel che sostenevano tendeva ad avverarsi più della media. Sembrava una dote ai limiti col soprannaturale. Si trattava invece di qualcosa di più semplice. Chi non…
Il potere sta nel coraggio
Donne, voi desiderate l’uomo forte, potente, ma non capite che il potere sta nel coraggio e il coraggio sta nel cambiamento, nel non conformismo, nella scoperta pionieristica di vie autonome, in cui riconoscersi metro per metro, uomini fabbri del proprio originale destino.
Beyond Zero and One (Andrew Smart)
Language underlies social reality
The most important fact, which Searle says that almost all of social science and philosophy going back to Aristotle take for granted, is language. It is only by assuming language that you can develop social contracts or analyze how controlling linguistic categories grants power…
Coast Series: Waterford To Hook Head
Using the power of nature
Using the power of wood, swollen by water, millstones are extracted at Herrylock beach. [original summary of the episode: "In Waterford, Alice Roberts learns how to make glass from sand. Neil Oliver also engages with an ancient skill, the extraction of entire millstones from…
History Of Scotland
On contextualizing history
The Duncan-macbeth-Malcolm drama is important, in any case, as a typical manifestation of the times. A student of history who inclined to the romantic is liable to picture those figures of the past as man of heroic stature and nobility, grappling with great affairs and shaping…
How Books Will Become Machines
The rise and fall of the CD-ROM
The CD-rom rise and fall should make us reflect on the power and the limit of closed systems. Like book application, CD-rom had all the potential to continue the way of the Book. They were celebrated as its future. As closed environments they offered great creative freedom, but…
L'imperfetta meraviglia (Andrea De Carlo)
Gelosia e controllo in ogni coppia
Finora ha tenuto duro, visto che ballare è troppo importante per il suo equilibrio e ci tiene alle persone con cui lo fa, ma certo ogni venerdì finisce col sentirsi terribilmente in colpa, prima delle danze, durante e dopo, quando si affretta a tornare a casa già sapendo di…
Una forma di possesso reciproco
Una parte di lei continua a registrare la differenza di forme e consistenze rispetto a Viviane: di peso, di proporzioni, di parti anatomiche, certo. Ma è una parte che si riduce sempre più, con ogni movimento e con ogni respiro, fino quasi a dissolversi nella combinazione di…
Lo Spirito del Giappone (Leonardo Vittorio Arena)
L'imperatore discendente degli dèi
Il nesso tra Amaterasu e la stirpe di Yamato è ancora più stretto. La dea, cui non era più precluso il dominio della terra, vi mandò il nipote Ninigi a governare il Paese favorito. Questi scese dal cielo, atterrando su Kyushu, una delle isole dell’arcipelago nipponico. Gli dèi…
Al Giappone è mancata una classe media
Lo storicismo rappresenta il fulcro dei suoi interessi. Egli concepisce la storia come progresso, nei termini di una continua espansione civile e culturale. Nishi aveva espresso convinzioni analoghe. Anche Fukuzawa accusa il confucianesimo di aver inibito il progresso…
Lo stereotipo del guerriero feroce
La mente giapponese inclina alla bellicosità, se non alla ferocia? L’elemento militare è sempre sottolineato, accanto alla esaltazione della forza. Tuttavia, ciò avviene sempre in un contesto culturale, spirituale: un samurai coltiva la potenza e l’arte nel contempo, il fisico…
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
Borrowing strength builds weakness
But borrowing strength builds weakness. It builds weakness in the borrower because it reinforces dependence on external factors to get things done. It builds weakness in the person forced to acquiesce, stunting the development of independent reasoning, growth, and internal…
Liberty versus freedom
They had more liberty, more options to choose from in their environment; but he had more freedom, more internal power to exercise his options. He became an inspiration to those around him,
The circle of influence
As we look at those things within our Circle of Concern, it becomes apparent that there are some things over which we have no real control and others that we can do something about. We could identify those concerns in the latter group by circumscribing them within a smaller…
Negative focus shrinks our influence
The negative energy generated by that focus, combined with neglect in areas they could do something about, causes their Circle of Influence to shrink.
Concern at least as big as influence
Though they may have to prioritize the use of their influence, proactive people have a Circle of Concern that is at least as big as their Circle of Influence, accepting the responsibility to use their influence effectively.
Indirect problems need new methods of influence
Indirect control problems are solved by changing our methods of influence.
Compensating for the boss's weaknesses
He was not blind to the president’s weaknesses; but instead of criticizing them, he would compensate for them. Where the president was weak in his style, he’d try to buffer his own people and make such weaknesses irrelevant. And he’d work with the president’s strengths—his…
Security, guidance, wisdom and power
Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power. Security represents your sense of worth, your identity, your emotional anchorage, your self-esteem, your basic personal strength or lack of it. Guidance means your source of…
Where our life-support factors sit
Your security lies somewhere on the continuum between extreme insecurity on one end, wherein your life is buffeted by all the fickle forces that play upon it, and a deep sense of high intrinsic worth and personal security on the other end. Your guidance ranges on the continuum…
Roller coasting between centers
If you are... Self-Centered Security Your security is constantly changing and shifting. Guidance Your judgment criteria are: “If it feels good... “What I want.” “What I need.” “What’s in it for me?” Wisdom You view the world by how decisions, events, or circumstances will…
The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray)
9/11 and the end of middle-class society
Looking back on it today, the answer doesn’t seem to make that much difference. Either way, what 9/11 did was trash the last vestiges of middle-class society. For decades—for most of the twentieth century, in fact—the broad-based economic power of the middle classes had been…
Europe has only one political party
And from the kaleidoscope of contributions, a crude but effective analysis not only of the invasion of the Middle East, but of the political situation of England and Europe as a whole was spreading through hundreds of thousands of people: The various European governments…
Afraid a world parliament would actually work?
Later that year George Monbiot was to bring out The Age of Consent, the sequel to his success with Captive State. In it he tries to trace all economic and political problems back to a single source, lack of communication. Faithfully reflecting the spirit of the gatherings in…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Postmodernists as intellectual dipsomaniacs
However, with this comes the promise of a liberation. If the self is constructed, then may we now take over the task of construction for ourselves? We can create ourselves, become the authors of our identities, writing as many of them as we want, not limiting ourselves to a…
Milgram's obedience experiments
More worryingly, our willingness to cause terrible harms also seems to be highly situation-dependent. Two classic studies stand out. In his notorious ‘obedience experiments’, Stanley Milgram asked subjects to deliver increasing levels of electric shock to someone in an…
The Stanford Prison Experiment
The other infamous case is the Stanford Prison Experiment, in which Philip Zimbardo and his team simulated conditions in a prison with student volunteers taking on the roles of prisoners and guards. The two-week experiment was abandoned after six days, because the guards had…
The Tao Of Topic Maps
Topics and occurrences as two layers
An important point to note here is the separation into two layers of the topics and their occurrences. This separation is one of the clues to the power of topic maps and we shall return to it later. Occurrences, as we have already seen, may be of any number of different types…
Villa Metaphora (Andrea De Carlo)
La disparità culturale come afrodisiaco
Gianluca Perusato pensa che all’inizio ci voleva molto meno, per impressionarla: bastava aprirle la portiera di una bella macchina, farla entrare nella suite di un grande albergo, appoggiarle al polso un piccolo bracciale d’oro, anche solo parlare inglese o tedesco o francese o…