JAMES TAM  谭炳昌

Finally, we've reached the end of the Flower Lounge story. Contemplation may not be an existential prerequisite, but is very likely the primary distinction between man and beast. Only through deliberate thinking can humans deny, restrain, or indulge basic instincts and develop human nature, for better or for worse. Trying to understand one’s existence is a natural, reflexive, down-to-earth human curiosity; it doesn’t have to be arcanely philosophical.

Had Descartes not thought at all, he'd still have been, just less aware. The 'meaning of life' is summed up in a flowchart with 60 words

clever people are better equipped to learn, absorb, and utilise information. How then could anyone be too clever for his own good?

What is innovation? Why is it so blindly promoted? And what has it contributed to humanity after decades of desperate promotion?

A Wolf Whisperer’s stubborn spirit delays its onward reincarnation to muse on the nature of existence from the netherworld - a short story