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Cover artwork (cover.png) for the article titled How Many Trees Make a Forest? Truth, Relativity, and the Blurred Lines of Perception.

How Many Trees Make a Forest? Truth, Relativity, and the Blurred Lines of Perception

How many trees make a forest? This essay explores the blurred lines between subjectivity and objectivity, the relativity of perception, and the thresholds created by language. From forests to fairness, poverty to truth, we uncover how meaning emerges not in absolutes, but in the gradients and relationships that shape our shared reality.

Sayed Hamid Fatimi
Sayed Hamid Fatimi
5 min read
Cover artwork (cover.png) for the article titled The Canyon Between Ideals and Reality: Manmade Morality, Ethics, and the Machinery of Order.

The Canyon Between Ideals and Reality: Manmade Morality, Ethics, and the Machinery of Order

There is a vast and often invisible canyon between the ethical ideals we claim to uphold and the lived reality of power, law, and social order. This post explores how our morals, ethics, and legal systems are not eternal truths, but manmade constructions—malleable, political, and often weaponized. To live ethically in a world built on contradictions requires more than belief; it demands confrontation, courage, and the refusal to look away.

Sayed Hamid Fatimi
Sayed Hamid Fatimi
5 min read
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