The vertigo of creation. Creation is an act of destruction. Birthing the new into a world that demands predictability is to introduce tension into it. More precisely, it is one’s Self-world relationship that is made tense by creation. Suddenly, the balance point has shifted, the goal posts have moved. And it is felt as though the grip we once had on our world no longer seems to hold. Creations attack the illusions of life. A new belief, a new theory, a new identity that begin

It’s been such, in the last few decades, that wealth inequality has surged between the haves and have-nots. But if you were to be born in any era of your choice under the Rawlsian “Veil of Ignorance,” you’d still want to be born now. In other words, being poor today is still a better deal than being born poor yesterday. This is also Steven Pinker’s argument on today’s level progress, that it’s at an all-time high (water access, information access with the internet, new medici

There is a good chance you are (living another person’s life). That’s a major source of conflict in anyone’s life, even the bravest amongst us. And it kills people every year. I think you need to let that land, that death is a real outcome in situations like this, where an individual is not living out his own vision. Sometimes the slavery to the usurper is so potent, the whipping so strong, that a person is rendered immobile like a piece of property. And in a sense, it is a f