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to this is what Desiderata says which was found in 1692 in
Saint’s Paul Church, Baltimore, and its message is relevant to
this day. This text contains wisdoms. No matter who wrote it in
the past, or in a modern time, it says some nice things and it is
valuable from a linguistic point of view too.
Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931), as studying mass psychology,
composed his point of view – still up to date today – that an
individual, even of high cultural level may lose sense of critical
thinking in the masses and may show response or decision that
may be contrary to his own interest. Today the immense impact
of the global media easily makes the individual credulous and
exposed to political and psychical influence. The worst can be
when it results in a perpetual commitment phobia.
Politics, economic life and public institutions could
make a lot of improvement in this area, but that is not what we
experience on a global scale. We can only rely on the true
context: the days of our lives, family, human relationships.
Apart from the modern and progressive ways of
thinking mentioned above, naturally, this other side has also
been armed with ways of thinking for thousands of years: the
Socratic “critical thinking”, the rational consideration, which is
improved over and over again during the centuries along with
the Aristotelian “systematic thinking”, the logical reasoning.
Knowing these and with the experience of life one has good
chance of avoiding to become a deceived Other Side.
The story of our life interrelates with the story of the
harmonic life and story of fate of the Other Side.
While going through these few paragraphs below, one
can guess after a few pages how the other side could be
addressed several times, especially when we speak from the
perspective of 69 years.

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