#Katarina Majerhold

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Finally, understand Socrates' "Know thyself". It simply means to be aware of your assumptions, judgments, beliefs, biases and prejudices on most important things and people, such as what is a partnership for you, what type of government you believe in, what kind of work you like, do you believe justice include anger and retribution, do you believe animals deserve love, empathy, compassion etc. and how these influences your everyday interactions, work, leisure.  Sometimes it takes a lot of time, work and experience to fully acknowledge and accept yourself.

I just had a revelation that I haven't changed much in the area of friendship and partnership for the last 20 years although I thought I made some progress and gained experiences, haha. I understand now what Freud is talking about with his "ego is not master in its own house".

People mostly write quotations by well-known thinkers but rarely add their insights and life experiences to those thoughts and even rarely provide their innovative thoughts on something.

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Even Japan produces 2-3 GLs a year. This year we had the comedy Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko (as is often the case in GL romances or dramas), where the younger Ayaka falls in love with her boss Hiroko, who thinks Ayaka is straight, even though she is in love with Ayaka too, and from there comic complications and subplots ensue. There is a new wave of openness towards lesbian relationships at work and in private life in Japanese GL, although this was not the case until recently (as the series shows). Chaser Game W Season 2 is even sweeter this year than last: Itsuki and Fuyu's schoolgirl love continues into adulthood when Fuyu's backward mother, who destroyed her relationship with Itsuki during their student days, forces her into a heterosexual relationship that results in the birth of daughter Tsuki. In the end, however, love triumphs. Fuyu divorces her husband, tells her mother that she will no longer obey her and will live a lesbian family life with Itsuki and her daughter.

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Plato's theory of the Sun (as truth, beauty, good): there is something that Plato got right - seeing and sight has something to do with the truth. Visuals are immensely appealing to people (in all sorts of ways).

The brain consumes twice as much energy when reading compared to watching. Reading a book uses many brain areas and watching a movie, photography, or painting relatively few. This is partly because books have grammar, punctuation, and complex ideas you must use your brain to ingest.

That's why you see all these attractive beautiful people in movies - they are instant pull into the movie.

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How does something unfold in the long run (longue durée) (speaking of 26 years)?

If you're young, capable, hard-working, productive and ambitious but you're not a pusher, don't belong to a certain group of people, you're not an activist and don't quarrel and destroy your opponents on your way to the position of the managing editor of the Leftist academic Journal you want?

With years passing by your opponents: 

a) get older and get better jobs with a better salary; 

b) grow tired of the position they wanted and acquired;

c) too little money to fight for therefore they go elsewhere;

d) In the end, there is no opposition but also almost no people to work with. That's how you get the position of managing editor. You work with two people and little money.

While I fought for this position in 2006 and in 2012 but got only it in 2023! I got the managing editor position in 2008 of the Andragogic Perspectives (https://journals.uni-lj.si/AndragoskaSpoznanja) and apokalipsa.si 2021 (apokalipsa.si).

It makes me sad that I became managing editor of the leftist academic and activist Journal (https://ckz.si/en/) only when almost no people wanted to work for the Journal.

That is the reality of this world regardless of the political orientation. 

The moral is: where is money, there is a crowd, quarrels, shaming, and fights!

And idealism is mostly for young people.

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We live in a shallow world. I used to be shallow too, especially regarding girlfriends (I valued their beauty and family background over their brain, hard work and goodness - hopefully, I learned about that too).

This shows that philosophers aren't any different from the rest of the world, and that's why there are so many conservative Slovenian philosophers who are prone to greed for power, fame, and money while they talk about Socrates' modesty and unwillingness to take money for his services and mocking fame.

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When you learn all your life, read all the important books in the fields of science, sociology, humanities, and art; after you written several scientific books, a textbook, poetry book, short and long stories, made several documentaries for national tv, edited numerous scientific books and magazines, translated several scientific books and numerous articles to finally acknowledge what is the most important: those who are your closest! I needed to survive breast cancer this year to realize that!

Fuck the internet, YT, X, IG, FB and their counts of likes and views. I'm the generation raised with the idea that virtual reality, aka the internet, would bring people closer, but it creates bigger gaps between people, alienates them and increases loneliness. It is all more evident since I published my article in The usa Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

[katarinamajerhold]

When you learn all your life, read all the important books in the fields of science, sociology, humanities, and art; after you written several scientific books, a textbook, poetry book, short and long stories, made several documentaries, edited numerous scientific books and magazines, translated several scientific books and numerous articles to finally acknowledge what is the most important: those who are your closest! I needed to survive breast cancer this year to realize that!

Fuck the internet, YT, X, IG, FB and their counts of likes and views. I'm the generation raised with the idea that virtual reality, aka the internet, would bring people closer, but it creates bigger gaps between people, alienates them, increases loneliness and can't really 'talk' about some serious stuff. It is all the more evident since I published my article in The usa Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

[katarinamajerhold]

Even Japan produces 2-3 GLs a year. This year we had the comedy Ayaka is in Love with Hiroko (as is often the case in GL romances or dramas), where the younger Ayaka falls in love with her boss Hiroko, who thinks Ayaka is straight, even though she is in love with Ayaka too, and from there comic complications and subplots ensue. There is a new wave of openness towards lesbian relationships at work and in private life in Japanese GL, although this was not the case until recently (as the series shows). Chaser Game W Season 2 is even sweeter this year than last: Itsuki and Fuyu's schoolgirl love continues into adulthood when Fuyu's mother, who put on obstacle to her relationship with Itsuki during their student days, forces her into a heterosexual relationship that results in the birth of daughter Tsuki. In the end, however, love triumphs. Fuyu divorces her husband, tells her mother that she will no longer obey her and will live a lesbian family life with Itsuki and her daughter.

[katarinamajerhold]

Oh, my gosh … I typed femme lesbian, lesbian writers, and lesbian philosophers into Tumblr's search and didn't get a single femme lesbian profile!!! What have I got? Trans, trans, trans, trans, trans, non-binary, nb's, nb's, nb's, nb's, nb's, dykes, butch, butch, butch, queer, queer, queer, lesbian porn, lesbian porn … Everything I didn't search for!!! Tumblr's search engine is shitee!

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My books (Living and Love, its Origin and Modifications Through Time) available to download (in English, Spanish, German).

Book Living tackles (consists of) the following topics: what does a good and virtuous life consist of? What is friendship? What are love and sexuality? What is happiness? Is there, in fact, a truth to be found? What are the roles of education, science, technology and diplomacy? How does one lead a peaceful and abundant life in these times when so many differences and preferences exist? And most importantly, what, actually, is life itself and how can it be lived in its most 'essential' ways?!

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My books available to download (in English, Spanish, German). Click on the picture to get them. Book Living tackles (consists of) the following topics: what does a good and virtuous life consist of? What is friendship? What are love and sexuality? What is happiness? Is there, in fact, a truth to be found? What are the roles of education, science, technology and diplomacy? How does one lead a peaceful and abundant life in these times when so many differences and preferences exist? And most importantly, what, actually, is life itself and how can it be lived in its most 'essential' ways?!

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When you ask someone if they've read one of your articles or books, even before you get their answer, you know ...