Academy of Ideas

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Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Conformity
And the word courage should be reserved to characterize the man or woman who leaves the infantile sanctuary of the mass mind. Sam Keen, Fire in the Belly In the privacy of our minds many of us dis
Why the News Promotes Ignorance and Mental Illness
News is to the mind what sugar is to the body: appetising, easily digestible and extremely damaging. Rolf Dobelli, Stop Reading the News Most people think that consuming the news makes one an inf
Carl Jung’s Apocalyptic Vision
The spiritual decline of the earth is so far advanced that people are in danger of losing their last spiritual strength, the strength that makes it possible even to see the disintegration and to reco
How to Cultivate Your Sixth Sense – The Power of Intuition
We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body. W.B. Yeats, Essays and Introductions Intuition is one of the most powerful faculties for gaining
Why Stupid People are Destroying Society – The Laws of Human Stupidity
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. Hanlons Razor What is responsible for the sickness of modern society? Is it the evil machinations of the power hungry
Why Technology is Enslaving and Dehumanizing Us
Man is caught like a fly in a bottle. His attempts at culture, freedom, and creative endeavor have become mere entries in techniques filing cabinet. Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society In the
Big Pharma and the Big Lie – The Chemical Imbalance Theory of Mental Illness
Big Pharma is one of the largest and most profitable businesses in America, and in order to sell their chemical goods to allegedly treat the mind/psyche, pharmaceutical companies must convince societ
Work Less, Achieve More – Why Working Too Much Cripples Productivity
The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less. Leonardo Da Vinci Today many subscribe to hustle culture and believe that to be successful in business, a career, or a creat
Pessimism of Strength – Nietzsche’s Formula for Greatness
Its easy to be a naive idealist. Its easy to be a cynical realist. Its quite another thing to have no illusions and still hold the inner flame. Marie-Louise von Franz To be a philosophical
The Darkside of AI – Transhumanism and the War Against Humanity
In an interview in 1964, the science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke stated: The most intelligent inhabitants of that future world wont be men or monkeys. Theyll be machinesthe remote descend