The effectively advertised intention of an action casts a great shadow over its actual effect, often to such an extent that one must really squint to see anything beyond taglines at all.
I dream of being one among a community of such squinters! Friends, it is hardly an exaggeration to say I write mostly as a kind of birdcall to summon them.
What could be greater than a recurring invitation for a seat at a discussion table among the insatiably curious and invariably courageous? There are few things I wish for more!
Our world is drowning in marketing. Like the proverbial fish that asks, “What is water?” we do the same when we incredulously ask ourselves, How could my current value system be little more than the near sum total of ideas sold to me relentlessly on the sly?
The oracle of Delphi proclaimed Socrates to be the wisest among men because he realized he knew nothing. Socrates knew he knew nothing, which is at least one thing, while all those who thought they knew many things but, upon sufficient questioning, were shown to know nothing, knew not a single thing.
A similar situation occurs with belief! Friends, seek to become a modern-day Socrates of belief! That is, one who, without having a nihilistic bone in their body and with a naturally devout soul, at the origin of their self-realization, states: I believe in nothing!
And rest assured that true belief, like the universe, is created ex nihilo.