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Dear 17-year-old Gianluigi, I write this letter to you tonight as a 41-year-old man who has experienced many, many things in life, and has made some mistakes. I have some good news and some bad news for you. The truth is that I am really here to speak to you about your soul. Yes, your soul. You do have one, believe it or not. Let’s begin with the bad news. You’re 17 years old. You’re about to become a real footballer, like in your dreams. You think that you know everything. But the truth is, my friend, you don’t know shit. In just a few days, you will get the chance to start your first Serie A match for Parma, and you don’t know enough to be scared. You should be in bed, drinking warm milk. But what are you going to do? You’re going to go to the nightclub with your good friend from the Primavera. You’re just going to have one beer, right? But then you exaggerate a bit. You play the movie character. The strongman. This is how you usually cope with this pressure that you don’t even k...

Imagine the following. You are living a life with enough money and health and time so as to allow an hour or two of careless relaxation, sitting on the sofa at the end of the day in front of a large television, half-heartedly watching a documentary about solar energy with a glass of wine and scrolling through your phone. You happen to hear a fact about climate change, something to do with recent emission figures. Now, on that same night, a friend who is struggling to meet her financial commitments has just arrived at her second job and misses out on the documentary (and the relaxation). Later in the week, when the two of you meet for a drink and your friend is ignorant of recent emission figures, what kind of intellectual or moral superiority is really justified on your part? This example is designed to show that knowledge of the truth might very well have nothing to do with our own efforts or character. Many are born into severe poverty with a slim chance at a good education, and o...

Beberapa hari yang lalu, Arief Budiman telah meninggal. Sebagai seorang akademisi, penulis, mantan aktivis pergerakan demokrasi, dan juga kokoh dari Soe Hok Gie, beliau meninggalkan banyak hal yang bisa dipahami ulang pada zaman sekarang. Setidaknya, bagi saya yang dulu sering membaca buku Catatan Seorang Demonstran dari Gie, perlu juga memahami apa yang dipikirkan oleh kokohnya. --- Manusia Sebagai Makhluk Berkebebasan dan Berkemungkinan KREATIVITAS adalah kesanggupan untuk melihat kemungkinan yang lebih sempurna dan merealisasikannya. Dalam dun ia ini hanya manusia yang memiliki kemungkinan – karenanya hanya manusia yang mungkin kreatif. Untuk melihat hal ini, kita terpaksa terjun ke filsafat antropologi. Hakikat dari kemanusiaan primer adalah eksistensinya. Dia tidak primer memiliki esensinya yang sudah serba tertentu. Ketika seorang manusia dilahirkan – dia belum menjadi apa-apa. Kata kaum eksistensialis, “Ketika kau berhadpan dengan seorang bayi yang baru dilahirkan, ...

What, exactly, is boredom? It is a deeply unpleasant state of unmet arousal: we are aroused rather than despondent, but, for one or more reasons, our arousal cannot be met or directed. These reasons can be internal – often a lack of imagination, motivation or concentration – or external, such as an absence of environmental stimuli or opportunities. We want to do something engaging, but find ourselves unable to do so and, more than that, are frustrated by the rising awareness of this inability. Awareness, or consciousness, is key, and might explain why animals, if they do get bored, generally have higher thresholds for boredom. In the words of the British writer  Colin Wilson : ‘most animals dislike boredom, but man is tormented by it’. In both man and animal, boredom is induced or exacerbated by a lack of control or freedom, which is why it is so common in children and adolescents, who, in addition to being chaperoned, lack the mind furnishings – the resources, experience and dis...

I've read many arguing that we got caught blindsided by the virus because the human mind has trouble understanding exponentials. My grandma would tell you that you don't need to understand exponentials to know that the virus is dangerous. Humbleness would suffice. The humbleness of looking at the makeshift hospital beds built in China and at Spain converting an ice rink into a morgue because the crematoriums in Madrid are saturated and realizing that this could be your future would be enough. The humbleness at realizing that Lombardy is not the third world, and what happened there will happen in other countries to, unless they react faster and more effectively. It's easy to know how to best react - it would suffice to look at what worked (in Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and China) and at what didn't (in Italy) and to do more of the former and less of the latter. Unfortunately, some people prefer sounding smart than doing what works, so we have models. Proba...

"In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered. For thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly." Something strange and wondrous begins to happen when one spends stretches of time in solitude, in the company of trees, far from the bustle of the human world with its echo chamber of judgments and opinions --- a kind of rerooting in one's deepest self-knowledge, a relearning of how to simply be oneself, one's most authentic self. Wendell Berry knew this when he observed that "true solitude is found in the wild place, where one is without human obligation" --- the places where "one's inner voices become audible." But that inner, I have found, exists in counterpoise to the outer voice --- the more we are tasked with speaking, with orienting lip and ear to the world without, the more difficult it becomes to hear the hum of the world within and feel its magmatic churns of self-knowledge, ...

* Di waktu ke depan, sepertinya saya beberapa kali akan menyebarkan artikel atau pandangan yang bermanfaat dan menarik untuk disebarkan ke orang banyak. Selain untuk mendorong rutinitas saya untuk mengisi blog, dalam pandangan pribadi, ada banyak tulisan bagus yang sayang sekali jika tidak diketahui oleh orang banyak. Sebagai contoh, di tulisan yang saya bagikan di bawah ini, kehidupan perkotaan yang semakin padat penduduk dan industri, akan mendorong sebuah pertanyaan, sejauh apa kemampuan alam untuk menopangnya? Dalam beberapa bulan terakhir, banjir besar Jakarta menguasai diskusi akar rumput, baik di media sosial maupun media yang tersebar. Dalam kacamata saya mengenai pembangunan, pola pembangunan di Jakarta makin marak berkembang di kota-kota lainnya di Indonesia, termasuk di kota tempat saya tinggal sekarang, Bandung, dan kota tempat saya tumbuh kembang, Padang. Dengan demikian, pandangan dari Pak Heri Andreas berikut cukup penting untuk dipelajari bersama-sama. --- Siklus ...