Ideas, opinions, politics, humanities
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Marijuana is a getaway drug
There has been an ongoing debate whether marijuana is a getaway drug to drugs like heroin, cocaine, or methamphetamine. While I would definitely legalize all drugs and heighten school or public enlightenment, the core of the truth is really lying on the fact that marijuana is a getaway drug. Or at least the majority of…
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The US debacle: The majority of the world population lives in countries with robust systemic torture in prisons
The USA always says they do things only to improve human rights all around the whole world. But it is business as usual. There isn’t a prison system that wouldn’t be abusing human rights anywhere in the world. However, there are systems where torture and wrongdoings are much more prevalent. Denailing, bone-breaking, waterboarding, tooth extraction,…
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Ukraine definitely doesn’t possess even Central European political culture
Some European highly-ranked politician boasted a long time ago that Kyiv is still Europe while Moscow is Asia. It was a political statement and it should be treated as such. The Russians have been treated as aggressors and rightfully so, however, Ukraine is nearly on par with Russian when it comes to human rights. Prevalent…
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How can an ordinary man fight corruption
Corruption not only costs us trillions of dollars a year, but it also distorts the political process to an extreme degree (the very ability to conduct things in favor of citizens). You say the Iron law of oligarchy still prevails, so there is no need to be an ordinary member when the shadow eminence will…
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Some people cannot understand how Czechs don’t understand the Polish language (and vice versa)
While the modern Czech people are a mixture of all the possible tribes (for example Celtic people, Germanic people) their language is undoubtedly Slavic. Modern linguistics regard both of these Western Slavic languages (Polish and Czech) as mutually unintelligible. Hundreds of years ago, a future Czech king was sent to Poland to acquire their language.…
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Suicide – 95 % of them are completely senseless
I know what I am talking about. I used to choose bridges from which to jump. But since I wasn’t sure whether it was the right decision, I asked super-smart people like Steven Pinker, Peter Kinderman or John Read. Yes, I am battling mental illnesses, and since you have had an awful divorce, you are…
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Economics, the pseudoscience
Yes, you will raise an objection. Without the modern (mathematized) economy the world would be an absolute mess. We must know the relations between inflation, unemployment, economical output, real estate, consumption and so on. But there is leftist or rightist economics, am I wrong? No, I am not wrong. Imagine leftist or rightist chemistry, physics,…
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Communists have been destroying lives. What about capitalism?
Since the Czechoslovak communists have taken over the power in the late 1940’s huge repression occurred. Around 250 000 people were interned, 248 executed and 8 000 died in prisons. All because of the Stalinist repressions. Most of the people executed were communists sentenced in fabricated trials (some of them, of course, were spies). Klement…
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Global government
We have global inter-connected economy, yet no global government. There are thousands of global issues needed to be addressed globally but we don’t have any global government. I am for current countries to be preserved while their law-making bodies would be voted in global elections. There is what I am imagining when writing about global…