2011 I was 11-years-old when the war started in my country, Syria. I was too young to understand what was happening. Before the war started, my life was perfect, I had everything I wanted, I had many friends, my family and I had spent time together, we were a happy family and no one had ...

Your superficiality, alienation, stress, addiction, fear, trauma, depression, insecurity, and abuse are a sad reality. A little less clear is why you are so lost and how did you get lost. The answer is painfully obvious: You detached yourself. For centuries you have been culturally conditioned to mistrust your physical impulses. The western 'Era of Enlightenment' spawned the idea ...

Consumerism is one of the strongest forces affecting your life. The term ‘consumerism’ does not simply refer to immediate factors in your daily life such as the omnipresence of advertising, but anything connected to the overarching idea in modern Society that in order to be happier, better and more successful you have to have more stuff. The ...

One day, if Human civilisation ever wipes itself out, aliens or one of our successors will cast an eye on our ruined planet and ask themselves what ever happened to homo sapiens. The root cause was not a specific catastrophe, conflict or devastation that eradicates us; the problem began with the architecture of the Human brain. For many ...

One of the most detrimental aspects of modern Society is that you spend far too much time on your phone and digital devices. Whenever you are bored, you unconsciously reach for them. You spend a large part of your life on your computer, watching television, checking your smartphone, driving in your car, and sitting at your ...

The philosophy of Materialism is that matter is the fundamental substance in nature. All things, including mental things and Consciousness, are results of material interactions. Materialism is closely related to physicalism, the view that all that exists is ultimately physical. Philosophies contradictory to Materialism or physicalism include idealism, pluralism, dualism, and other forms of monism. Economic Materialism is the importance a person attaches ...

It is estimated that sea turtles have been around for at least 200,000,000 years. At some point, there were around 100 species swimming through the oceans. Nowadays, we can only track seven different species! Sea turtles are relatively defenceless to Human actions, despite what their shell would have you believe. Nearly all species of sea turtles ...

In politics, humanitarian aid, and social science, Hunger is a condition in which a person, for a sustained period, is unable to eat sufficient food to meet basic nutritional needs. Some 795 million people in the World do not have enough food to lead a healthy active life. The 2008 financial crisis further increased the number of people ...

There are thousands of things you take for granted each day. You have many things in life. You do not realize what you have until you lose it. You forget about the little things, the things that seem unimpressive, menial or normal. But what happens when you lose them, either temporarily or forever. That is when you start to ...

If you worship money and things - if they are where you tap real meaning in life - then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough. It is the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and sexual allure and you will always feel ugly, and when time and age start showing, you ...

Earth is home to millions of species but just one dominates it. Us. Our cleverness and our activities have modified almost every part of our planet. We are having a profound impact on it. Our cleverness and our activities are now the drivers of every global problem we face. And every one of these problems is accelerating as ...

The fight for gender equality is one of the most dangerous sports on Earth. - It has been ingrained into Society that females must follow one path, while males follow the other. This is reinforced in our daily lives through the adverts we see, clothes we buy and the roles we assume. Achieving gender parity requires an understanding ...

Our monetary system and our economic system is incompatible with life on this planet. - Use your time to help contribute something meaningful and positive in Society, rather than serving this unethical system that feeds dangerous things like war, greed, exploitation, and elitism. Put Human need before elitist greed. Banks only hold reserves worth about 10% of the ...

The first principle of people control is not to let them know you are controlling them. It is easier than you think to control people indirectly, to manipulate them into thinking what you want them to think and doing what you want them to do. One basic technique is to keep them ignorant. Educated people are not ...

Tomorrow it could be your point of view that is silenced. - Google and YouTube dominate internet search with over 75% of the market. If you disappear on Google, your ability to voice your opinion disappears too. PragerU is an educational non-profit that has had over 40 of their videos restricted by YouTube. That is why they ...