Twitter Is Not The World

Posted on July 1, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Sunday I was back from three days without computer and any type of connectivity. Unusual circumstances, nowadays. I spent the days in a Finnish summer cottage that is built on top of a little rocky hill with a fabulous view on the Baltic sea located a good 30 minutes drive from the closest town where [...]

BP. Oil. Consumers.

Posted on May 2, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

This post equals to stating the obvious, really. Yet, I believe some don’t appreciate this basic reality: it is consumers that rule on which products and, thus, corporations are successful, not the other way around. I’m not arguing that corporations never influence our choices. For sure, marketing plays a big role in business and the [...]

The State Of World Religion

Posted on January 18, 2010 | by Markus Stocker

Recently, I watched Religulous, a documentary with a hint of comedy in which Bill Maher exposes his “take on the current state of world religion.” Maher clearly has his opinion and he does a good job in advertising the one-sided rationale, sometimes by demonstrating it with particularly easy targets (e.g. folks at a theme park). [...]

On Mutual Respect

Posted on December 27, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

The one Xmas present that swung on the day into my house this year was rather unusual. I think, I am as close as never before to the place where Santa Claus is said to have his residence but this year it came from across the ocean. It wasn’t delivered by Santa Claus, I argue [...]

Avaaz And Copenhagen

Posted on December 23, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

There are many opinions one may have about activist movements and I’m sure they vary between movements and even between missions within a single movement. Typically, when I’m confronted with a movement or a mission I try to have an open ear towards the statement and every now and then I “support” some with my [...]

On The Beauty Of Forgetting Intoxication

Posted on December 6, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Likely you have heard of the chicken or the egg causality dilemma, ”which came first, the chicken or the egg?” I think, Samuel Butler‘s statement about egg & hen is more intriguing: “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.” In The Botany of Desire (2002), Michael Pollan writes about apples, tulips, cannabis and potatoes [...]

Do Conventional Plastics Internalize Costs?

Posted on November 26, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

The United States and Canada (primarily) celebrate Thanksgiving Day, a day that sees families and/or friends gather to share a Thanksgiving meal. According to Wikipedia, “a time to express gratitude in general,” which, depending on your preferred -ism, might be gratitude for the birth of free enterprise in America. My own experience of American Thanksgiving is, [...]

Confident Hope For Lukewarm Worries

Posted on November 19, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Concerns over a global economic recovery continue to reduce risk appetite (WSJ; DJI -2.09%; October 1, 2009). Fragile state of the global economic recovery (Reuters; DJI -0.23%; October 2, 2009). Question the strength and speed of the global economic recovery (WSJ; DJI +1.18%; October 5, 2009). Renewed hopes for a global economic recovery (Reuters; DJI +1.37%; October 6, [...]

Tragedy. Designed.

Posted on October 13, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

Are we always supposed to find words? Must we always be able to write an essay on whatever topic? I know, this article has affected my thoughts today. The corresponding blog of Thomas and Amanda Stansel — The Stansel Journey —  did so, too, as did at least one of their family picture. Read. Think. Comment.

Attractors For Opinion

Posted on August 21, 2009 | by Markus Stocker

In Chaos theory, an attractor is a “set of states of a dynamic physical system toward which that system tends to evolve, regardless of the starting conditions of the system.” A Chaotic system is an example of a Complex system and I hope stating that life is a Complex meta-system of Complex systems is not [...]

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