Irrational by design

 The irrationality of a group belief doesn't split the group it reinforce group cohesion.

The sacrifice you make to go against the popular trend makes an member of the group more loyal,if the group performs it's function.

The irrationality of old Religions and irrationality of the extreme left who deny biology are a feature not a bug, they keep the group united against other.

Believing in irrational is a loyalty test.

PS. You would think that America will be free from old gods and irrational beliefs.

After all you don't have an inquisition in America to check your correctness of faith. If you disagree with the elders you just move west.

But what we notice is quite the contrary: an explosion of cults, and irrational beliefs.

To the old Religions some new were invented.

In the old world religion reinforced ethnic identity being Catholic in Iberia meant to be Spanish or Portuguese. Being Orthodox in Balkans meant to be Greek,serb or Bulgarian. The religious Identity reinforced solidarity between different polities.

In US it seems that religion reinforced the in-group solidarity

I think America worth studying to learn more about human nature. The freedom there allowed expression of some characteristics that were repressed by tradition in old world.

What I don't like at modern visual art

 I think the modern art erases the individual.

Old western  painters when they painted a bouquet of flowers, painted every flower, making each one more individualised, more expresive.

After first world war, the personality of subjects was smudged into abstract prototypes.

This is more visible in communist art, where even the individual expression of artist was diluted.

The missing piece

 When the hunters wandered through forests, they be one attentive when birds went silent. A predator was approaching.

When Europeans made the first globes, they noticed blank regions in the Earth, that they stirred their curiosity.

When first periodic tabel of Mendeleev was created, scientist rushed to fill in the empty boxes 

When Craig Venter sequenced the human DNA, would discovered that it didn't know a lot about many unknown DNA chains.

Be watchful of what is missing.

RIP Craig Venter.

Here his last interview:

https://youtu.be/Zxg38eUL5IY?is=y8GeGIwWo_ROUNjh

Why you make more money from telling lies

 To tell the truth is effortless.

To tell lies it is required more work, so the demand for work is higher and you find employment to lie.

That's why the scientific channels don't get enough money but pseudo scientific, conspirației ist channels are awash in money.

Do you feel hopeless ? Invest

 These are few psychological benefits of investing in stock exchange:

1. Compensation for your loses. Long time ago, my favorite football team had an important match. The team was confident. I had a hunch that they will lose, I wanted to bet against them. But a real fan doesn't do that. I didn't bet, they lost, I lost. If I would have bet against them , the money won would have compensated for the loss of match, and I the win of the match would have compensated for the loss of money. I wasn't unethical to bet against my team because I could not influence the outcome. So if you are a pacifist worried that the world is going down the drain , buy defense stock, if you are ecologist buy big oil stock.

The stock are used to extract capital from mature companies not to grow them.

Start up sell shared to gain capital to develop.

Mature companies don't issue new shares because they dilute the share value, investors assets and managers bonuses. Mature companies stock are a kind of rent.

2. Investment force you to find something positive in your life.

If you open the news you see doom and gloom. Everything is going down, stock exchange has reached new lows. If you look carefully there are some positive points. The Hormuz strait is closed? Oil climbs to the sky ? The oil companies shares touch the sky. Maybe you buy yourself a coffee from their dividends.

3. Investment force you to understand the world. You have see cause and effect to buy the right shares, ahead of others.

What you should not do:

5. Don't buy the hype, you will be disappointed and the return of investment will be low. More demand for a share will increase its price and price per earnings. You should browse the company data and you would hire a new person. Buy from a domain that you know.

6. Don't play at stock exchange. Take it seriously even if it is 20$. The process itself is important.

7. Don't sell and buy often, this will increase the cost and it will stress you. 

MAGA should look itself in the mirror

 It seems that the possibilities that their sons will die in sands of middle east, expensive groceries and soy beans crops that don't sell have awake MAGA people from their slumber.

The signs of Trump callousnies were there.

A manager said that always dined with a future client in a public restaurant, yo notice the behavior of his future business partner versus waiters: if future business partner was rude, he would cut the ties with him. 

Someone who doesn't respect subordinates doesn't respects you, he is fearing only of your power and with first occasion he betrays you.

MAGA when Trump abused emigrants and protestors using ICE , didn't you think that it will do the same with you ?

He didn't abused them because they were brown and emigrants, he has very good relationships with brown rich people from Middle East.

He abuse them because they were perceived as weak.

EU with their diplomacy is perceived as weak.

When he said that he can grab women by the p**sy because he is famous you were not appalled in you Christian morality?

 You never though that you daughter will be the victim of guy like him?

Stalin, Mao and other dictators that starved people were never elected. They climb to power because of a civil war.

You elected twice a dictator that will starve soon millions of people. Through Hormuz strait 25% of agriculture fertilizer pass, to Africa and Asia. 

Mussolini and Hitler were voted once and they kept the grip on power, because they knew that they will never be elected again.

If Trump resignes tomorrow and MAGA doesn't reflect on the mistake they made voting Trump, nothing will change in US. The crowd will find another demented unhinged person to vote him to presidency.

Unfortunately the left is not welcoming to repented Trump supporters, so they transition to a more normal mindset easily.

Art versus religion

 Art is expansive and triggered by emotions and desire.

Religion is triggered by fear of death, punishment , social pressure. It is restrictive, it tries to protect us with rituals.

It constraints is for our own safety.

Art develops us, breaks boundaries and invades territories.

In the religious art you have this tension.

Science it removes the fears and weakens the religion but it damps down Emotion and art.