Lady Gaga

She's a drag act with a loud voice and LOTS of wigs. Highly derivative and reductive of everything that's been around in the pop industry the last 30 years. Common-place pseudo-liberal messages with just enough shock value appropriated for commercial purposes. That makes her a perfect marketable package for worldwide distribution because she caters exactly to the uncomplicated average taste of the smartphone-yielding world consumer.

The true colours of earthlings

Most people date/marry their own (cultural/ethnic/religious) kind anyway, could be because it's their comfort zone, because of cultural affinity or just a lack of contact with other kinds of people in their life. I can understand there must be various reasons why they do what they do, but I appreciate earthlings of all colours and shapes, for friendship, or romantically, or whatever. I surely see the colour (and no one on this planet is actually colourless!), but I also see what's beneath it and that's by far more important for me.

Anti-depressants or no anti-depressants?

Physical pain is a sign that something is wrong with your body. Emotional pain is a sign that something is wrong with your life. The purpose is to draw your attention to the source so that you can fix it. Anti-depressants and the ilk deprive you of that opportunity.

Paganism and monotheism

We all used to live in peace with our penises, vaginas, boobs and asses until the Abrahamic religions with their desert mentality of persecution and frustration arrived to the scene...

Yoof ot today

Yoof of today! You are my past and I am your future. So chill!

You are what you do.

Food choices: a rule of thumb

Religion is the worst possible PR for God

Religion is the worst possible PR for God.

Sexy bods?

What looks good does not necessarily feels good.

Divide et impera

Try to be above such made-up divisions (religions, nationality, etc.), otherwise you are simply perpetuating what you want to stop.

Once it's in the culture...

.. you can't drum it out.

This will litearlly change your life

http://www.cmhc.utexas.edu/stressrecess/animations/diaphramatic_breathing/diaphragmatic_breathing.html

The best prayer ever

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salaat-ul-Istikhaarah

Of sheeple, by sheeple and for sheeple...

"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
Winston Churchill

To the yoof of today

You are my past. I am your future.

The trap of good looks

Attractive faces and bodies do not guarantee good sex. The kick may run deeper than a pure aesthetic gratification, yet nerds and average-lookers are more reliable for good performance in the sack.

London friends

London friends have the wave nature. All things going right, they occur wth a frequency about once a month, although twice-a-year ones are quite common too.

Somebody, everybody, nobody...

When you drop everybody for somebody, you will always end up with nobody.

Neither too shallow, nor too deep: the Middle Path of human relationships

There is a Japanese saying about human relationships: "asakarazu, fukakarazu" (浅からず、深からず). Go too deep and you risk hitting the dregs of the human psyche you would not want to deal with, go too shallow and you will skip on the surface without developing anything meaningful. Staying in the middle is hard work, because it is not a simple middle ground or compromise.