Tag Archives: Science

Are The Controllers of the Dominant Narrative Sane?

Posted on October 28, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Elites spend vast fortunes controlling the dominant narrative. They do this because it’s what works and they have enough money to control it exclusively in their own interests. It’s effective. They make excellent returns on the money they invest in … Continue reading →

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Is This the Life You Want?

Posted on September 2, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

There are people who spend their waking hours diligently making things awful. They’re “awfulisers”, in the words of cartoonist Michael Leunig. Their net contribution to human life is extremely negative and it undoubtedly would be better if we called these … Continue reading →

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Everything’s Stuck. Everybody’s Stuck

Posted on March 4, 2018 by tropicaltheartist

Ever wondered why Beethoven didn’t invent the blues? After all, he had sufficiently tragic motivations, he had a piano, knew how to play it well and had all the same notes available to him as Ray Charles. Why didn’t he … Continue reading →

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I Don’t Get What You Don’t Get

Posted on November 19, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

But you don’t get what I don’t get either. Mutual understanding is insanely difficult to build, mainly because we conflate critiques of our most fervently held beliefs and ideas into insulting, personal attacks on our very core identities. We don’t … Continue reading →

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The People With All the Money Don’t Know How to Create Value

Posted on November 5, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

Being good at amassing wealth doesn’t in any way qualify a person to create value. In fact, creating value isn’t how they amass their wealth in the first place, usually. Even if it is, they only know how to hoard … Continue reading →

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Untold Stories

Posted on September 24, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

It pains me to write this post and I’m not exactly sure why. I think it’s mainly because I sense a yawning vacuum, but don’t have a robust proposal to fill it – just some vague, sketchy pointers to a … Continue reading →

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Creativity and Efficiency

Posted on July 16, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

In art, as in most things in life, creativity and efficiency co-exist in tension. If you optimise on creativity, it often isn’t very efficient. On the other hand, if you’re obsessive about efficiency, that can easily drive out creativity. The … Continue reading →

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Moving the Overton Window

Posted on July 9, 2017 by tropicaltheartist

We all look through it, but like glass, we don’t see it. We don’t even see the width of the frame or how it is centred, but it constrains what we see and how we see it just as surely … Continue reading →

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Changing the World through the Emotional Influence of Art

Posted on August 23, 2015 by tropicaltheartist

I read something massively depressing, recently, so I thought I would share it with you (you’ll thank me later).  http://www.alternet.org/media/most-depressing-discovery-about-brain-ever?sc=fb What the article says is that decisions are not made on the basis of facts, but on emotions.  Decisions are … Continue reading →

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A Modern Interpretation of “Useful Work versus Useless Toil”

Posted on March 23, 2015 by tropicaltheartist

The book, “Useful Work versus Useless Toil”, was written in 1884, by the illustrious William Morris; at least three years before the first Arts and Crafts exhibitions were proposed and long before there was such a thing as an “Arts … Continue reading →

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