The Pied Piper

If various circumstances combine, including a given society's deficient psychological worldview, individuals are forced to exercise functions which do not make full use of his or her talents. When this happens, said person's productivity is no better, and often even worse, than that of a worker with satisfactory talents. Such an individual then feels cheated and innundated by duties which prevent him from achieving self-realization. His thoughts wander from his duties into a world of fantasy, or into matters which are of greater interest to him; in his daydream world, he is what he should and deserves to be. Such a person always knows if his social and professional adjustment has taken a downward direction; at the same time, however, if he fails to develop a healthy critical faculty concerning the upper limits of his own talents, his daydreams may "fix on" an unfair world where "all you need is power". Revolutionary and radical ideas find fertile soil among such people in downward social adaptations. It is in society's best interests to correct such conditions not only for better productivity, but to avoid tragedies. [...]

Finding One's True Family

Not an original work. Taken from a blog i'd been following. Mired in a mental block due to being a slave for too long.

But this was too beautiful to not share...
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Your Allies on Life’s Journey - Finding Your Tribe

"We all desire to find our tribe, a community of those that feel comfortable to us and nurture our journey.

The Emperor's New Clothes Explained

Image from here

There is a certain type of argument which, in fact, is not an argument, but a means of forestalling debate and extorting an opponent's agreement with one's undiscussed notions. It is a method of bypassing logic by means of psychological pressure. Since it is particularly prevalent in today's culture and is going to grow more so in the next few months, one would do well to learn to identify it and be on guard against it.

The Search For Truth Is Like Putting Together One Big Jigsaw Puzzle

"It was rather like the preparations made to put a large, complicated jigsaw puzzle together. One begins by sorting the pieces by color into piles. At the same time, if one comes across those which are clearly the “border” pieces, one then puts them in an altogether different pile. Once in awhile, while sorting, serendipity brings two pieces together, and those are put in little “sub-piles.

After this process is completed, it is done again in a more refined and exact way.