Mood is information that our body or our mind are giving us about their workings, to detect malfunctions Fever or guilt are examples of this warnings. Pretending the mood be always high, is like painting our car windshield in white, to see only peace.
Virtue in ancient Greek was “areté” a force to aim for excellence. Justice (“diké”) was the natural order of things. One cannot survive without the other. It makes no sense to be excellent by specializing and quitting your place in cosmos: to be a super-performer by abandoning your family or civil duties.
A security guard’s job is mostly information processing (detect threats, in this case). In rare cases he/she will produce energy (push somebody, for example)
This is a general trend: humankind is becoming less and less dependent on energy and material resources, and more on information, which is unlimited. What will the future be like?
Several armies in History have achieved an extraordinary momentum (inertia) becoming invincible: Muslims; Mongols; Alexander the Great…
Historians got surprised by these storms because the only see the size of the masses, not the momentum.
Same thing happens when we judge economies only by their size
The science method is analytical (dividing things into parts, to understand each one). But the economy is a live system (all pieces need to be together for the whole to work). Therefore, ‘analysis’ cannot be used in Economics, nor in any other of the wrongly-named social sciences. These systems have to be approached synthetically (holistically) not analytically.
God creates the universe not in the past (big bang) but in the present; not from above but from within.
The population explosion of the Industrial Revolution caused a gigantic tide of savings which is seeking a place to be invested: this is the air in all assets bubbles duing 20 and 21 century
When the bird eats the worm, it does not kills, it fulfills. Each being exists for the others
All great ancient civilizations emerged along rivers (Nile, Hindu, Yellow, Tigris). Rivers were as Internet today: a communication infrastructure.
We should be able to build a great civilization over this foundation. All we need is the common goal.
Hebrews enriched the western civilization with the idea that history was not circular (which was the idea in Egypt and Mesopotamia, because of agriculture) but lineal (because of creation-redemption).