Positive thinking impedes performance because it relaxes us and drains the energy we need to take action… Such relaxation occurs because positive fantasies fool our minds into thinking that we’ve already achieved our goals – what psychologists call ‘mental attainment’. We achieve our goals virtually and thus feel less need to take action in the real world. As a result, we don’t do what it takes to actually succeed in achieving our goals.
People think the world is getting worse… That’s the perception. What’s actually happening is our information about what’s wrong in the world is getting better. A century ago, there would be a battle that wiped out the next village, you’d never even hear about it. Now there’s an incident halfway around the globe and we not only hear about it, we experience it.
Once big enough to buy other companies, Yahoo! itself got bought by Verizon for US$4.8M. Surely, the end of an era.
— Archillect (@archillect) July 23, 2016
So someone makes an interesting piece of work, and some Tumblr/Twitter account just reposts the said work under the guise of ‘found art’ without any attempt at any kind of attribution.
And everyone, with their thumbs up their behinds, just repost the repost(s) and then wonder why artists go hungry.
(Which is EXACTLY what I just did.)
Astronomers have been scanning the cosmos for signs of intelligent life for more than half a century, and not only have they found jack shit, but they’ve hardly investigated the places where aliens might be hanging out. It’s not for lack of trying — it’s just that there are too many places to look.
It’s nice, but…
Trump: “I alone can fix this.”
Is this guy running for president or dictator? #RNCwithBernie— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) July 22, 2016
Also of interest: Donald Trump Threatens the Ghostwriter of “The Art of the Deal”
Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public. It is also the means of establishing a controversy.