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Gustave Doré's The Children's Crusade

9 Signs of a Childish Society

by wael on April 7, 2023 · 1 Comments

Let us jump straight into the subject with a somewhat ad hoc definition: a childish society is a society in which the bulk of adults do not live up to their intellectual and emotional potential as fully grown human beings. In other words, an observer might sense a lack or distortion of the kind of [...]

Summer Aphorisms

by wael on July 6, 2010 · 0 Comments

Self-awareness is genius. The world of form.  Plato idealized, the Buddha illusionized, the Gnostics demonized, Nietzsche aestheticized, Jung archetypified, the behaviorists denied, and the evolutionary psychologists instinctualized.

Pessoa, Jung, and Nietzsche

by wael on February 13, 2010 · 0 Comments

Wael Al-Mahdi “The genius which runs into madness is no longer genius.”  -Otto Weininger One of the lasting contributions of evolutionary psychology to our understanding of human nature is undoubtedly a list of human universals composed by Donald Brown.  The list runs into the hunderds and includes:  Actions under self-control distinguished from those not under [...]

Nietzsche: Have I been understood?

by wael on September 21, 2009 · 0 Comments

Friedrich Nietzsche’s Thus spoke Zarathustra (or Thus spake Zarathustra according to the older, and more arcane sounding, title) is an ocean of deep thoughts and rare feelings.  Pictorially, it is a high mountain, with a chilly, rarified atmosphere, as Nietzsche himself intimated:  “the air of my writings knows that it is an air of the heights, a [...]

Explaining difficult words to my professor

by wael on September 1, 2009 · 3 Comments

In a business course I took recently, our septuagenarian professor decided to give us a take home exam.  He probably got more than he bargained for, because afterwards there was a queue of students in front of his office inquiring about their grades.  I didn’t get the grade I’d hoped for, but what really irked me was that he [...]