What is the Thucydides Trap?

What is the Thucydides Trap?

"What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta." The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides A Thucydides Trap is when a rising power threatens the hegemony of an established power. When such a challenge arises war becomes...

What is the Thucydides Trap?

What is the Thucydides Trap?

"What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta." The Peloponnesian War, Thucydides A Thucydides Trap is when a rising power threatens the hegemony of an established power. When such a challenge arises war becomes...

Do we need social media?

Do we need social media?

TL:DR: We do not need social media in order to live our lives happily. Social media is more of a want than a need, and in that regard it can lead to distractions, loneliness, stress, and depression. For more rewarding social interactions, try going offline for 30 days...

Can we know everything?

Can we know everything?

Is it possible to know everything there is to know? That’s a question which came to me while cooking dinner the other night. It part came from the world around me at that moment and part from movies where humans tap into unused brain space for limitless knowledge and...

What is selective ignorance?

What is selective ignorance?

Have you ever felt overloaded by all the information coming at you? It’s not just that so much of it is biased or inaccurate, it’s the sheer quantity. We get it on the TV, on social media, from news sites, in search engine results, from friends, and on YouTube. I’ve...

What are the virtues of isolation?

What are the virtues of isolation?

The virtues of isolation are an opportunity for self-reflection, a change to change and improve yourself, better connection with nature, and increased creativity. In addition to this, isolation can improve empathy, concentration, and memory creation. It has its risks,...

What is Universally Preferable Behavior?

What is Universally Preferable Behavior?

Growing up as an undiagnosed Aspie, I found it interesting to see how things worked. This meant systems, patterns of behavior, and so on. Eventually this got me into archaeology and then history. More recently this has morphed into philosophy, neurology, and...

Is Unconscious Bias a Myth?

Is Unconscious Bias a Myth?

We all know, especially those of us who work in business or are interested in equal rights (or both), how unconscious bias is supposed to work. There is a tranche of rhetoric and dogma which says that people - by this we usually mean white men, are innately biased...

Should We Make Everyone Normal?

Should We Make Everyone Normal?

No, we should not try to make everyone normal. Firstly, it is subjective to determine what normal is anyway - is it the majority? the average? Furthermore, it impinges on the basic human rights to force others to conform to an arbitrary standard or definition of...

Logic

Logic

What is Logic? The Way of the Runari: A Brief Introduction The Principles of Runari 5/12 “Writing structure is logical. Writing method at its best is instinctive. That way you get the benefits of both styles – improvisation within calculation.” Stewart Stafford “There...

Responsibility

Responsibility

What is Responsibility? The Way of the Runari: A Brief Introduction The Principles of Runari 4/12 “You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” Abraham Lincoln “A true gentleman puts responsibility upon himself but not upon others.” Confucius...

Freedom

Freedom

What is Freedom? The Way of the Runari: A Brief Introduction The Principles of Runari 3/12 “The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to...

Create

Create

What is Creation? The Way of the Runari: A Brief Introduction The Principles of Runari 2/12 “‘If you wish to rule the state, first pacify your family. If you wish to pacify your family, first discipline yourself. If you wish to discipline yourself, first make right...

What is Aristotle’s theory of forms

What is Aristotle’s theory of forms

In my previous piece on Plato’s theory of forms, I asked the question - how do we know a table is a table? As Plato’s most famous student, it is no surprise that Aristotle too had an opinion on Forms. What may surprise those new to Aristotle is that he rejected his...

Do we need social media?

Do we need social media?

TL:DR: We do not need social media in order to live our lives happily. Social media is more of a want than a need, and in that regard it can lead to distractions, loneliness, stress, and depression. For more rewarding social interactions, try going offline for 30 days...

Can we know everything?

Can we know everything?

Is it possible to know everything there is to know? That’s a question which came to me while cooking dinner the other night. It part came from the world around me at that moment and part from movies where humans tap into unused brain space for limitless knowledge and...

What are ghost populations?

What are ghost populations?

Ghost populations are fragments of human DNA which belong to unknown humanoid ancestors. DNA and genome studies into 300,000 years of humanity has shown a rich and complicated picture of archaic and modern elements spread over a wide range of areas and times. Some of...

What is Homo Luzonensis?

What is Homo Luzonensis?

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Tolkien was thinking of a low hillock crowned by a great tree probably somewhere in his native Warwickshire. After his philological discovery he came to the conclusion there were three hobbit races - the harfoots, the...