188. The REAL Da Vinci Code
Yes, Dan Brown is a genius for creating fiction that so enthralls the masses that a lot of people actually believe it is true.
I saw the movie yesterday, it's slow-moving but decent. The historical flashbacks were quite interesting.
There was actually a line uttered by Tom Hanks in a hectic and desperate tone that somehow reveals many truths about society: "We're being dragged into a world of people who believe it's real -- real enough to kill for!"
The REAL secret code, however, is not about faith or religion (although faith, in the heart and in the hands of certain charismatic leaders, can actually become a weapon and an instrument for positively (or negatively, as with Hitler) transforming the mentality of the masses).
A more accessible code, or power, is the nature of capitalism.
We all live, every day, under the regime of capitalism yet very few of us can explain what capitalism really is.
As mentioned in a previous posting, capitalism is the "cult of capital." Its practitioners can "see" the capital code everywhere, in the same way that a devout religious person can "see" God behind every phenomenon and event in life.
Even Einstein hinted at this when he said, on the evening he received his Nobel Prize, that "compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." (I will leave it up to you to make the link between "compound interest" and "the nature of capital." You will be fascinated by the truth you find.)
Another hint of the secret code behind capitalism was provided by no other than Master Pablo Picasso himself, who said: "Give me a museum and I will fill it."
It may take a while before you understand what Einstein and Picasso are really saying, but I think the power of a secret comes from exactly that; in other words, the real power of a secret does not come from the secret being divulged, but from one's continuous obsession with thinking about it and exploring it from every possible angle.
By the way, this is the same reason Napoleon Hill never actually revealed the secret of wealth in his book Think and Grow Rich. However, he did say that by reading the book and thinking seriously about it, the secret will become apparent to readers. Same thing with the book As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen.
In the end, it was Leonardo Da Vinci himself who revealed the only secret worth knowing -- and it has nothing to do with religion or conspiracies supposedly concocted by covert Vatican forces.
A writer once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said: "Leonardo Da Vinci."
In so responding, he preceded by centuries the work of psychologist Abraham Maslow, who concluded that the ultimate need of human beings is self-actualization.
I saw the movie yesterday, it's slow-moving but decent. The historical flashbacks were quite interesting.
There was actually a line uttered by Tom Hanks in a hectic and desperate tone that somehow reveals many truths about society: "We're being dragged into a world of people who believe it's real -- real enough to kill for!"
The REAL secret code, however, is not about faith or religion (although faith, in the heart and in the hands of certain charismatic leaders, can actually become a weapon and an instrument for positively (or negatively, as with Hitler) transforming the mentality of the masses).
A more accessible code, or power, is the nature of capitalism.
We all live, every day, under the regime of capitalism yet very few of us can explain what capitalism really is.
As mentioned in a previous posting, capitalism is the "cult of capital." Its practitioners can "see" the capital code everywhere, in the same way that a devout religious person can "see" God behind every phenomenon and event in life.
Even Einstein hinted at this when he said, on the evening he received his Nobel Prize, that "compound interest is the most powerful force in the universe." (I will leave it up to you to make the link between "compound interest" and "the nature of capital." You will be fascinated by the truth you find.)
Another hint of the secret code behind capitalism was provided by no other than Master Pablo Picasso himself, who said: "Give me a museum and I will fill it."
It may take a while before you understand what Einstein and Picasso are really saying, but I think the power of a secret comes from exactly that; in other words, the real power of a secret does not come from the secret being divulged, but from one's continuous obsession with thinking about it and exploring it from every possible angle.
By the way, this is the same reason Napoleon Hill never actually revealed the secret of wealth in his book Think and Grow Rich. However, he did say that by reading the book and thinking seriously about it, the secret will become apparent to readers. Same thing with the book As a Man Thinketh, by James Allen.
In the end, it was Leonardo Da Vinci himself who revealed the only secret worth knowing -- and it has nothing to do with religion or conspiracies supposedly concocted by covert Vatican forces.
A writer once asked him what was his greatest achievement. He said: "Leonardo Da Vinci."
In so responding, he preceded by centuries the work of psychologist Abraham Maslow, who concluded that the ultimate need of human beings is self-actualization.
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