Real Life People vs Abstract People

chatting in park Cape Verdean

This is what I realized:

There are some people who like real life people (in the flesh, face to face, embodied reality) and some people who like abstract people (people in movies, TV shows, moral theology, religion, spirituality, video games, MMORPG, etc).

Then the question comes:

Which do you prefer?

Why I don’t trust academics or ‘public intellectuals’

TOM PAINTER INTERVIEW

A lot of people like to talk about ‘race’, ‘poverty’, and all that stuff without talking to real life people in the flesh. To think about these topics, they read books. But the problem:

A book can’t talk back.

TOM PAINTER INTERVIEW

For example, something nobody ever talks about in the public sphere:

Poor ‘white’ (Caucasian) people in America.

Why? Nobody cares for them! There is no sympathy.

Do we know what is best for others, or do others know what is best for themselves?

IVAN INTERVIEW

Leave others alone. Let them be. Offer simple ideas, tips and expose them to new ideas, but don’t tyrannize your ideas upon them.

“Take it or leave it” seems like a good idea.


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