Polojko's Blog! – Page 188 – "The only person you can't learn from is yourself"

Everything counts

If in life we only count victories and dismiss defeats, we’re not going to learn much and will never become fully developed human beings.

Fight

You can’t fight something that you don’t see and/or don’t understand. To fight it, you have to make it visible/understandable.

Run!

If you delay running for too long, then may come the time when you no longer can run. So, run while you can!

Personality

Human personality exists only in relation to other people: without them, it is – nothing.

Life

Life, once you realize you can’t get out of it alive, becomes extremely depressing.

Real enemy

Corporations are real enemy, real dictatorships.

Internet

Like so many other human inventions before it, the Internet carried so much promise at the beginning. Then, people with money got interested…

I finally realized what has been bothering me all these years in the US: the lack of an objective criterion. Maybe it has something to do with aging and losing threads, but… everything here seems somehow elemental, human qualities are not valued, the stronger oppress, the more intrusive win, etc. Perhaps it is a mistake that we are brought up to respect the authority which is corrupt here. I don’t know, but I do know that I would like to see objective criteria, a “leveled playing field”.

Democracy

Terms democracy and class society are incompatible.

Democracy

Every dictatorship thinks of itself as a democracy. The greater dictatorship, it tries harder to present itself as a democracy.