It took me a long time to learn, frustratingly brutal trial and error, fighting presumptions and misconceptions, but eventually I realized that all of my writing leads to this work: Maciolekism. My very own philosophy.
Latest Posts
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The Cybernetics of Release
Emotional Labor is the work of building, maintaining, and releasing relationships. Relationships can be built, maintained, and released randomly, but we have evolved cultural processes to facilitate these things to minimize mistakes and misdirection, confusion and chaos, and pain and… Continue reading
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The strongest, most impenetrable prison humans can ever build for themselves is the thought that the future needs to be perfect before we get there. Continue reading
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Plato’s Sorrow
In my mind, when all is quiet around me, I can imagine a perfect society. This image is in a place I call The Good. The image is so clear and bright. I can even see myself and how I… Continue reading
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Balancing The Group Mind
According to this Freudian model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the… Continue reading
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It’s Emotional, Stupid.
The expression of emotion is how people navigate through the social environment. When we express our emotions, we give others the opportunity to see if their emotions are in alignment with our own. From the emotional expressions of others, we… Continue reading
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Love & Connection
Love is an emotion. Emotions are a form internal communication that helps to guide us through our environment. Connection is a physical reality. We can love people we are not connected to, but it takes time and disciplined to build… Continue reading
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Culture
Culture: the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. — From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. A society’s culture can either be a tool… Continue reading
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What Drives People
Generally speaking,.. there are three types of people; Lifestyle Driven, Reward Driven, and Goal Driven. ~ Lifestyle Driven people simply want to live a certain way, and they will go to great lengths to achieve and maintain that lifestyle. (The… Continue reading
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Good Government
The pursuit of sustainability is the only reason for a government to exist. Otherwise, if a government did not pursue sustainability, people would be better off on their own. Good government should never allow anything or anyone to become more… Continue reading
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The Destructive Cycle of Creation
Wealth creates immaturity.Economic success enables a civilization to become irresponsible. People don’t see it… that is the nature of wealth. The environment is harsh, unforgiving, and without master – it requires us to find a balance with and within it.… Continue reading
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