Academy of Ideas

Academy of Ideas


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Why are People so Obedient? – Compliance and Conformity
June 25, 2025

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
June 14, 2025

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
May 22, 2025

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
May 10, 2025

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
April 30, 2025

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
April 18, 2025

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
April 02, 2025

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
March 24, 2025

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
March 07, 2025

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
February 17, 2025

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