Het recente faillissement van Blokker maakte mijn (“oude”) vraag weer actueel en suggereert een Nee. Het (voortdurende) succes van Action suggereert echter een Ja. Ter informatie: klik op Retail voor mijn eerdere blogs. Mogelijk is er trouwens sprake van een conflict tussen gevoel en ratio. Mijn gevoel geeft een Nee als antwoord; mijn ratio een Ja. Mijn gevoel is...
Apparently, collective guilt is an issue for Germans and for Russians (eg, German collective guilt, Russians And Collective Guilt). However, it might only be a media and/or a political topic (eg, DW-2019, Hungarian Conservative-2022). At least, guilt is an emotion rather than ratio. How about individual and/or collective victim roles?? “Victim mentality is...
Intro LO: While reading this Aeon - Psyche article, the Big Bang Theory TV characters of Dr Sheldon Cooper and Dr Leonard Hofstadter came to my mind, as an example of the “reflective aspect of wisdom“ and the “socio-emotional dimension of wisdom” (respectively). Alone, Sheldon highlights “the quality of being very unpleasant or rude” a.k.a. obnoxiousness, while...
I think I finally understand the feeling of loneliness. In my view, it feels like the Daryl Hall song below: "Every time you go away; You take a piece of me with you" (lyrics). This yearning-like feeling is new to me. I have always liked my feeling of solitude but I'm (far) less sure about this new feeling. As I had always suspected, my inspiration is taking a dive....
Recently, the Washington Post (WaPo) published this article: How to stop Europe’s decline, an opinion by its Editorial Board. Its subtitle was: "Fixing the European Union’s flagging economy will require it to reconsider key elements of its architecture." The WaPo may well be right about Europe's flagging economy but why do they fail to see the American decline...
In a recent NYT article, Professor Allan Lichtman (b.1947), the “Prophet of Presidential Elections” since 1984, gave his prediction for 5 November 2024. I agree with his prediction and actually felt the same, early last week. I declined writing my prediction as it was based on emotions rather than ratio. ”The model uses 13 true/false criteria to predict whether the...
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