Desire is a two headed snake. On one end, it cultivates anticipation and on the other it cultivates fear. Positive outcomes build anticipation and negative outcomes build fear from desire. Some people are attached to the high of anticipation and some are attached to the lows of fear. In both cases, reality slips by unnoticed in the background.
Author: Abhinav (Specks) | Source: Medium | Subjects: Desires, Psychology | Behavior
We humans have a habit of going into phases of mass destruction, generally self imposed to some extent or another.
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At a local level in time people think things are fine, then things rapidly spiral out of control until they become unstoppable, and we wreak massive destruction on ourselves. For the people living in the midst of this it is hard to see happening and hard … [ Read more ]
Author: Tobias Stone | Source: Medium (July 23, 2016) | Subjects: Excerpts, Health & Medicine, International, Military | War | Peace, Politics & Public Policy