Rarely Difficult for the Average Man, yet...

Rarely Difficult for the Average Man, yet...

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)

What's Difficult for You My Friend? Conscious Communication Via Ethology

Rarely Difficult for the Average Man, yet...

Inspired by Baruch Spinoza's (1632-1677) quote, "All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare". The titled responsion is perhaps his most famous uttering, captured by the historians and regurgitated by the mouthing motions of our culture.

Baruch Spinoza - planksip

Baruch Spinoza was a Dutch philosopher of Sephardi/Portuguese origin. By laying the groundwork for the 18th-century Enlightenment and modern biblical criticism, including conceptions of the self...

planksipEve Garnier

Directly relating to E.O. Wilson's concept of consilience (originally from Whewell), this little guy is branching out to interact with a changing environment, problem is, his biology has no idea how to adapt to such an accelerated loss of ecological habitat. We don't appear to be much better and yet we are causing. Excellence is right in front of us and apparently, we are destroying her at an extinction rate!

Common and Good Go Together

Inspired by John Stuart Mill's (1806-1873) quote, "Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends than that good man should look on and do nothing". The titled responsion points in the direction of ends justify the means over the inability to act towards a common Good. Notice how I didn't preface Good with The, however, I have capitalized Good to indicate an ideal, Platonic to be exact. It's a society that is participating in this capital punishment making the Good into something less than ideal, a perversion of sorts; 'for me' as justified by what spews from the mouths of millions to satiate their silos of solitude and perpetual misinformation on a mass scale.

John Stuart Mill - planksip

John Stuart Mill was an English philosopher, political economist and civil servant. One of the most influential thinkers in the history of liberalism, he contributed widely to social theory...

planksipFrederick the Great

Directly relating to E.O. Wilson's concept of consilience, this little guy is branching out to interact with a changing environment, problem is, his biology has no idea how to adapt to such an accelerated loss of ecological habitat. We don't appear to be much better and yet we are causing.

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