Archive - Horizons of Significance of Antonio Dias

“Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality…”

Note added, 9.15.14: It’s come to my attention that a link to this post is making the rounds of a white supremacist SubReddit. I’m amazed, though I…

Apr 2 •

February 2019

Since starting this blog in July 2009 I've posted 436 essays for a total of well over 500,000 words. Over the past year and a half the frequency of…

Feb 14, 2019 •

August 2018

Investing in Trust

Investment is generally taken to mean following a strategy that allows us to siphon off value. A way of taking value from a living system and turning it…

Aug 16, 2018 •

July 2018

Too Much, too little

I keep running into a single question whenever I consider what might be done. I must admit the question is holographic, its form mirrors its content. It…

Jul 30, 2018 •

June 2018

"The truth for me…"

“The Truth for me must be what I need it to be." David Bohm describing the justifications of Ego. Whenever we allow our language to atrophy – as we do…

Jun 28, 2018 •

Musing on Medusa, Reflections on the Gorgon's Head

Those of us who fear chaos, through our efforts to control chaos, bring about more chaos, a more virulent chaos, a more violent chaos. At such times we…

Jun 5, 2018 •

May 2018

The Primacy of Attention

Fear makes you stupid. Fear swamps intelligence. Fear takes us out of Being. We resort to strategies in an effort to re-establish certainty. Fear drives…

May 22, 2018 •

April 2018

Whiteness, a Community of Narcissists

This post was drafted in August of 2015. At the time I was concerned whether it was complete enough. Whether it said enough. On looking it over today I…

Apr 16, 2018 •

March 2018

On Reflection… part 2

There have been times when it has seemed appropriate to appeal to the metaphor of a snake shedding its skin. This last year brings to mind a different…

Mar 8, 2018 •

February 2018

On Reflection… part 1

David Bohm and Jiddu Krishnamurti were right in posing that the incoherence of thought is our greatest challenge. Some thirty years later the burning…

Feb 26, 2018 •

December 2017

Realms. How we position.

"How we position." Seems to call for an object, "What?" before we can get into wondering about "how;" or even, who "we" are; we want to know what. I…

Dec 4, 2017 •

November 2017

Twists and turns…

…the story of a man who inadvertently got into the role of himself. He saw it as a mistake. That is what people say who fall into a hole. "Hell and…

Nov 21, 2017 •

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