The other day, over coffee with my roommate, I had the topic that the growth of the economy is bad for the world, or rather the climate as well as biodiversity. Even though we didn't really go deeper into the topic, it kept popping up in my head over the next few days. Over and over again,...
The term nature triggers something positive in most of us. We think of green hills, forests, mountains, lakes, meadows, birds, deer, foxes simply said everything that is outside the man-made cities and villages. Also, one can quickly come to the topic of natural selection, evolution and its...
That our society is strongly defined by performance is no big news. In itself, there is nothing bad about performing, but it is important to know the limits of one's capacities. Only those who perform sustainably can do so over the long term. What is the meritocracy? As a performance society is a form of society...
Modern consumerism plays us to believe that we should consume more and better goods. Ideally, we should buy a completely new wardrobe every week, the latest snacks, cell phones or headphones - however, more is never enough. Lao Tzu already knew over 2000 years ago that it is important to know when you have had enough....
Alan Watts was known not only for making Far Eastern worldviews accessible to the Western world, but also for criticizing various circumstances of our modern society. This short but powerful excerpt from one of his speeches does both. Alan Watts explains the interdependence in which opposites stand, since they cannot exist without each other. In the...
Alan Watts was known for placing criticism on various circumstances of our society. This article is about Watts' view that our perception of materialism is wrong and modern philosophers have forgotten an important aspect of philosophy. Alan Watts made it clear that in his opinion the term materialism would be misinterpreted. Actual materialism implies...
While in cities we are often inundated by a flood of stimuli, nature gives us time out, we have the opportunity to relax and realign. Moreover, man as such, has spent significantly more time in nature than in civilization, so you could say in nature we feel...
After traveling through South-East Asia with a backpack for the first time, I realized that you don't really need much to live. On the contrary, it even felt good to only have to take care of a handful of things. That's why, when I got back home, I sorted out many of my possessions. And even now...
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