Category: history
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The Great Gullibility
“When emotion supersedes reason …gullibility must follow – Barbara Mertz” Common sense is very uncommon in the modern world, and everything which can’t be understood leads to gullibility. You can’t underestimate the people who have a tremendous capability of surrendering to tricksters and those who have the power to trick people. The social media has…
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Thank You and Happy New Year !
2020 has been a roller coaster year for everyone, and we should be grateful that we have survived the most challenging year in modern times. I would like to thank everyone who has supported my blog and spared time to read and comment.Wish you all a happy prosperous and healthy new year. Image source: Pixels
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The Surreal Success
“If you want to be successful, find out what the price is and then pay it”– Scott Adams. The topic of success has been gaining mainstream attention, and nowadays, every other book is based on the concept of success. The million-dollar question is, why it is hard to attain success in real life? Success is…
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No Country for Poor People
If you are poor then, even stray dogs will remind you that you are -poor. Even fugitives can choose which country they want to live in but not the poor ones. Decades after decades, poor have always been poverty sick and, the government aspires to help these underprivileged yet, we do not see a significant…
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The Media without the Journalism
The role of media has always been vital in every part of the world and now journalism is known as media. Journalism and media can be perceived as a voice of voiceless people and it gives the strength to the people who can’t raise their voice against atrocities. Because of media, we know things and…
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The Modern Followers
The world we are seeing today is based on the followership and without followers, no revolution could take place in human history. Many well-known leaders were thriving not because they were highly intellectual or great thinker but rather they could influence the masses to follow them. Why do we follow others? Because, we feel that…
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Imbalancing act of Income Equality
Post-French revolution, capitalism emerged as saviour and promised everyone a better standard of living. After that, there was no turning back for capitalism and the world has seen tremendous growth in the economy, technology, production and science. World’s GDP increased from $643 B to $88,000 B in just matter of 300 years. Capitalism was followed…
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Lost in Stories
When they entered, they found hanging upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him, in all the wonder of his exquisite youth and beauty. Lying on the floor was a dead man, in evening dress, with a knife in his heart. He was withered, wrinkled, and loathsome of…
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The Masters of the Modern World.
The world has witnessed many rulers in the past and people followed their masters, because they had faces. Until the emergence of capitalism, the world had never dealt with the question “Who rules the world or who are the masters of the world”. Now, the ultra-capitalists hold the power, many will argue that governments hold…
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Capitalism: The Ouroboros
The ouroboros is an ancient symbolic expression where a snake is eating itself and capitalism is becoming the ouroboros in a modern culture but in a very different way. The fundamental concept of capitalism is profit-making where industries are being controlled by private entities rather than a state. When every form of economic ideology failed,…
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