The Hellfire club

The Hellfire club

Majority of secret societies are exclusive, intended for a small circle of the chosen ones. Their closeness is the very reason for making them an ideal ground for the creation of various claims and theories of  what actually takes place within them, what is their real purpose or who are their real members. Here, I […]

Underground utopism

Underground utopism

It seems to me that, for a long time, we were searching for that particular social order that will guarantee equal rights for all, flawless community development and all in cooperation and harmony with nature. So we got a handful of systems, the pantheons, religions and political systems that have this ideal in their foundation, […]

Kung Fu Hustle

Kung Fu Hustle

The first kung – fu movie that I watched back in the 70’s was called ” Karate, The Superior Youngster” and it’s  first scene begins like this:  GANGSTER: (from the top of the cliff) ” Karate , come and kiss my feet ! “ KARATE ( from  the bottom of the cliff ) “Why don’t you […]

Time: illusion and/or necessity?

Time: illusion and/or necessity?

For a majority of us, time is but an alternate term for what occurs between two random points on the clock. But, here is the gist: clocks – as claimed by scientists – do not measure time at all, but only our very own limited and conditioned impression of it. Time is a concept that […]

Social Moulds and Their Consequences

Social Moulds and Their Consequences

Can we really discuss any type of individualization without being aware of the imposed limitations? Which of these limitations are we willing to acknowledge? Do we acknowledge only those that suit us, and discard the rest as irrelevant or even false? Can we truly – having in mind our habituation to comfort, to company which […]

Scenography of though – Fernando Pessoa

Scenography of though – Fernando Pessoa

“We have swayed from our road to such extent, that we are probably on the right track” – Fernando Pessoa (The Book of Disquiet) To paint with thoughts is to possess the colors of sensation so intense that the daybreak they create abstracts new worlds. The gaze thus becomes an eyepiece of unutterable landscape of […]

Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky

Stalker – Andrei Tarkovsky

Unlike hefty amount of authors on whom it is relatively easy to debate rationally – meaning, empirically justifies – Tarkovsky is a cineast that does not bear many words, who is resisting all judgment, who demands a metaphor in order to explain the world in which he spiritually exists, that simply expects a certain spiritual, cognitive […]

Nature of conflict

Nature of conflict

There are several reasons why most people do not approach conflicts in the right way. The basic one is – they see the conflict as a problem, while the conflict has always been an inevitable process that keeps repeating itself on our way to growth, and overcoming it leads to final synchronization of two individuals, […]