Hong’s Cave

…between having an opinion and being dogmatic…
In the past, I’d been occasionally complimented (?) by some people that I didn’t impose my own tastes onto others (meaning, not having strong preferences, which kind of prompted me to to write this). But in reality, I do have opinions on a lot of stuff (maybe not as [...]

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Got into a small argument about religion recently. It’s been a while because I try to avoid it as much as possible, but it seemed like she would never stop talking about it.
After that incident, while thinking about it, I came up with another term “Personalized Religion”. I never liked organized religions. And frankly, I [...]

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I was reading an issue of BusinessWeek some time ago and found an interesting article (“It’s All in the Genes? Ha!,” BusinessWeek, March 16, 1999, pp. 100-102). It’s about the theory that challenges the established genetics community which believes that the genes are the only agents that transfer the traits from the previous generation to [...]

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I started reading one of Fromm’s book, Fear of Freedom. I’ve only gone through the first chapter, but I realize again that he is one of the few “rational” thinkers (or very good observers of the human society) of our times. The book is on the “individuation” process of a human; how one emerges to [...]

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It’s so hard to generalize about the world, especially the people. There is no doubt that a generalized view of something (a society, a human, or an American male, for example) is useful (this has somewhat related to the fact that our mental capacity is limited). However, there hardly is one instance in the surveyed [...]

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I came to think that “the limited mental capacity” plays a very, if not the most, significant role in human, both as an individual and also as a society. We cannot retain all the experiences we ourselves go through in our life-span, let alone the collective knowledge across the time. We forget. Our mental capacity [...]

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