Marketing Qualia
I am always struck by how often advertisements use wonderful, qualiadelic ideas to sell their products. One commercial that readily comes to mind is probably called “pay it forward.” Basically, one person helps another, then that person helps another, and so on throughout the morning. It is just a seriesContinue Reading
Holding the World Together
Landscapes are competitive, violent places. Ecosystems are made up of many landscapes together, making something greater than its parts. As part of an ecosystem, landscapes endure cooperatively and balanced, like the molecules in a snowflake, held together by a hexagon. An ecosystem is qualia in its fullest, innermost sense, holdingContinue Reading
Freedom
The sparrow is doing what it loves to do, because its Interest and Participation levels are matched in the middle (Interest level 5/10, Participation level 5/10); it is in sync with its landscape. When we are doing what we love, when our faith in the qualia we notice is atContinue Reading
Slavery is in the landscape, not in the slave.
We are like sparrows eating crumbs on the sidewalk – free to come and go, but, nonetheless, still slaves to our landscapes, chained to our landmarks, and our pathways. Yet all is (generally) provided for – the qualia we notice guides us to the matter we need. Survival depends onContinue Reading
Wealth
“A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he afford to let alone” — Henry David Thoreau Not the least of which “things” are beliefs, ideals, ought to’s, should haves, fears, and maybe even loves, too. It is good to have thoughts, if for no other reasonContinue Reading