Why do people argue so much when our beliefs and views are all based on our environment?
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Product of my Environment
Author: Alec
Sound Bites
Politics has become devoid of meaningful discussion. The cats would like to change that.
Not So Special
People like to think they are special and that their pain is unique, but it’s seldom true.
Eternal Satisfaction
Satisfaction fades after a goal is reached, and the journey may be painful, but there is a bigger satisfaction that can be gained.
The Right to Exist
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine seemed like an appropriate time to publish this comic.
Going to Concerts
People get different benefits from things.
Staying in Power
The main goal of most politicians is staying in power. Forget the people or the national interest.
The Anne Applebaum quote comes from her article Why the West’s Diplomacy With Russia Keeps Failing.
If you are interested in this topic you might enjoy the book, The Dictator’s Handbook, which proposes that leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest.
My Notebook
Keeping a notebook can help with many aspects of life. This comic is based on Eric Barker’s post about notebooks in Barking Up The Wrong Tree.
Frozen Assets
So the U.S. is planning to give assets belonging to the Afghani people to Americans.
What We Desire
According to the rather incomprehensible French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Jacques Lacan, what we desire is the desire of the Other.
Explaining what he meant by this quote, Lacan said “The necessary and sufficient reason for the repetitive insistence of these desires in the transference and their permanent remembrance in a signifier that repression has appropriated – that is, in which the repressed returns – is found if one accepts the idea that in these determinations the desire for recognition dominates the desire that is to be recognised, preserving it as such until it is recognized.”
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