ArcaNuova · Change · Self-examination · Humour

If You Like It, Change Yourself

Changing the world sounds magnificent. It becomes harder when something inside your own head has to move first.

If you like it, change yourself before repairing the world.

Everyone wants to change the world. Nobody wants to move the most comfortable chair in their own head.

Gandhi said we must be the change we wish to see in the world. It sounds good.

In practice, however, it means forcing your inner weakling to do yoga, smiling kindly at your own stupidity and stopping blaming everything outside your own skin.

The world is only a mirror. If it looks ugly out there, the fingerprints are usually on your own glasses.

Anyone who wants to improve the world without changing themselves is like someone dancing in the rain and complaining about getting wet. Gandhi was right, but he did not know social media. Otherwise he might have added:

“Clear your ego cache from time to time, or you will walk through life with outdated software.”

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Who is thinking behind it?

ArcaNuova is not a finished product, but an ark for thoughts that can be taken along, grasped, understood and reused. What stands here should not merely be read. It should trigger something: an impulse, a tool, a beginning.

Behind ArcaNuova are experience, observation and the attempt to think about things clearly and practically. No psychological fog. No empty chatter. Something you can actually get hold of.

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Who writes behind it?

His path led from dental technician to dentist and from dentist to philosopher. He carried forward fewer titles than tools: precise observation, careful case history, diagnosis and the willingness to discard an initial assumption when reality does not fit it.

The thoughts do not come from a textbook, but from experience: in a dental practice, a solar installation, a router, an olive harvest or occasionally in the gaze of a dog.

More about the author

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Festival of lights. Humanly conceived, technically illuminated.

How does he write?

As a dentist, I was used to well-trained office staff revising my medical texts. They corrected spelling, smoothed formulations and made complicated sentences readable. Nobody would therefore have credited them with the medical ideas.

Retirement ended not only the practice but also the office. Apparently only a president can take the entire staff into retirement. For linguistic revision I therefore switched to artificial intelligence.

The division of labour remained essentially the same: I provide thoughts, experiences and attitude; AI helps with sentence structure, spelling and polish. The new office assistant simply needs no desk, no holidays and shows a remarkable enthusiasm for syntax.

The birth round of my seal

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Why does he write?

The author has a pronounced curiosity and a tendency to follow thoughts long after others have changed the subject. Not everyone wants to discuss society, technology, philosophy or life’s absurdities over coffee. That is probably sensible.

In writing, every thought finds the space it needs, and every reader can decide how far to follow it.

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