Purity?

The Purity line of thought is everywhere in society. But in nature, it is nowhere to be found.
That is why I began with a Yin Yang symbol which symbolizes among other things the mixed, impure reality.

When we talk about purity, there is a strong stigma from religions that pure is good and as a consequence impure is connected with less good (in the dictionary there will be a second meaning for impure which refers to morality/religious thoughts). But this is just stigma, both should be the same.

Going back to the main topic, purity can never explain anything. Purity's main purpose in society is to balance. In fact, it is interesting to think that by showing a strong pure good line of thought, religions are trying to balance unbalanced societies. For example, societies with higher crime rates have an increasing religious population. That is, although they try to see everything by their simplistic pure perspective, they are part of a self-organizing aspect of society to balance and mix everything.
In the same manner, societies seems to abandon religion as soon as they escape from social/environmental problems.

Supposing we are living in a developed and well balanced society, why can't we learn Yin Yang right from the beginning?
I mean, kids still see a great amount of strongly polarized good vs evil cartoons.
Lets learn the big picture, lets teach our kids the big picture. Modern society is obstructed in many ways with the knowledge it produced, making it slow and static. Almost unable to absorb new understanding inside social machines such as institutions and organizations. But that is another topic...not entirely another topic though, since the adaptability and self-organization of society is related with the balance of forces in a Yin Yang.

Yin Yang is a difficult abstraction in relation to purity, but the big picture it gives is worth it. When you start to understand everything under the balance of Yin Yang, things get very realistic and pleasing. Many martial arts were based in this concept or influenced by it. It is about understanding rather than choosing or taking a party in some election. That is why it is difficult, people usually wants to do something or have some guide to decisions (e.g., the yellow side is always better). Purity is the shortest path to knowledge, not necessarily the best.

With our current overall extremely weak education systems, the knowledge concept itself has degraded. People started to believe that knowing something is knowledge. There are people believing they can buy knowledge. People are always so focused on the objective, that they are getting far away from it. Am I digressing again? No. This is just to show that as wicked as the society grows thinking that shortest path is the best, everything goes with it. Unbalanced. That is the word.

A bit of Yin Yang understanding could have helped many houses, if only they took a little time to think about it. Yin Yang differs from many other lines of thought, because it also focuses on the process itself not on the product. That is, what conclusions you get from it is just as important as your process of thinking to get them.

Notice that balance is not equal size, but equilibrium. In the same sense that an iron ball is balanced with a much bigger watermelon, balance in Yin Yang is about finding the equilibrium rather than putting two things with the same size to coexist. In other words, the white and black part will most of the times differ in size in a balanced system.

Knowledge is sometimes not about getting new tools, but about opening horizons.

Why villains are so evil?!

Ever asked yourself the reason why villains from cartoons are so evil? Specially cartoons for kids.

What are the reasons behind it?

I have a hypothesis. In most of the cartoons the good side seems to have many benefits in relation to the evil side. For example, it is clear that McDuck , Mickey and his friends does not have much problems with money and status. That is, there is an unequal society there which may be the first reason.

A second point is that although the society is uneven, never the evil side can actually win a bit to balance things around. As a result, the evil side becomes more and more evil. While the good side tries to use morality (showing their actions as inherently good and therefore correct), politics (never showing or demonstrating the existing unbalanced society) and fake ingenuity (I am sure you noticed that Mickey always pretend ingenuity to avoid talking seriously about many subjects) to keep the social status unchanged.

In fact, up to some point the good side itself created the evil side.

My Friend: The Japanese Code

The Japanese code, or as many like to say, language has been my friend for a couple of years already. And I came to know, like or at least respect many of its characteristics, though still having much to study in the years to come.

This friend of mine is full of history as any code not artificially created and boiling of creativity, as you can tell from many new words, expressions and whatever fun puns the new generation carved into it.

Different from German and other languages I found the taught Japanese too different from real casualタメ口 speech (basically 98% of the used Japanese for young people). To give you an idea, in casual speech the structure is different (loose rules), the words are different, the endings of words change in many ways to reflect the feeling and style of the speaker, etc. 

I underlined style and feeling above, because this is really something unusual for myself. It is like the Japanese code has "colours" and every person paint its speech in a giving colour according to its style (though not necessarily its nature).

This is just a tip of the iceberg. There are also dialects, to be expected in countries where isolation or strong internal cultural trends were present. In Japan both things happened. However, the code diversity is not necessarily respected. I find a shame that people that study language sometimes fail to see the marvellous code they have in hand. 

Each society has its own ways of showing admiration though. The Japanese do this in silence which causes much more explosions than it seems. One Piece is a manga who is beating record after record of sales, much more than books ever dream of selling. Different from books, this manga fully explores many aspects of language mentioned above. It is without a doubt the language alive. And it is recognized for it all. It is a work that is impossible to translate without losing what makes it so brilliant, the language code.

For those that think that manga is not how Japanese really talk. I do not know which manga you are referring to, but many of them are pretty realistic to how they talk in real life. You just have to get a person that wants to talk. Or do as Japanese do and share a cup of 日本酒 which make any person want to talk.

The Strength of Vagueness

Vagueness is often disregarded.

But it is there. Always been there. Everywhere.
People just do not notice and when they do, they despise it.


Vagueness may seem like his cousin, the emptiness.
However, unlike his cousin, it says many things and let others be foretold.


We must apretiate what it does, without doing it.
Because it is in the left empty spaces that our mind is put to work to create diverse and amazing worlds.
With much more details than any other description could do.

What mistery without vagueness?
I mean, we can describe like "the ancient tower" or "a tower built by ancient civilizations".
But it is in vague senteces like "ancient civilizations left what resembled like a tower" that really passes the thrill.


Articles also need the power of vagueness.
When we create something new, it does not mean that we need to describe its future or limit its use.
Quite the contrary, we certainly want to point many paths.
Some of them we may not know exactly.

Opposite to common thoughts, vagueness raise the questions which guide development (See Hilbert).
In my opinion vagueness and doubt differ in style but are twin brothers.
Vagueness is an implicit doubt.