Practical hermit

Is it easier today to be a solitary in an urban/suburban area than in a rural area or wilderness? Physical isolation, climate, and availability of food, supplie...

Group and solitude

How often is repeated the notion that you can tell everything about a person according to how they act in a group. The modern jargon of team-building, focus gro...

Justice IV

States always redefine the meaning of words to fit their ends, especially during war; certainly not just in modern times. The ancient Greek historian Thucydides...

Breezy

A little beige butterfly lay on the grass at my feet, feebly moving its wings once in a while. It seemed injured or weak, even dying, I thought — a sad co...

Transmission

The historical problem of transmitting the thought of ancient sages has been that they wrote very little or nothing at all. How to transmit to new generations t...