DESCHENAUX – World Improving Ideas in the honor of René & Juliette Deschenaux, my beloved Grand-Parents

Make Good Art

Marc René Deschenaux October 10, 2021

Background This speech was delivered as the keynote address for the May 17, 2012 commencement ceremony at The University of the Arts. delivered by Neil Gaiman Speech Transcript I never really expected to find myself giving advice to people graduating from an establishment of higher education. I never graduated from any such establishment. I never even started at one. I escaped from school as soon as I could, when the prospect of four more years of enforced learning before I’d become the writer I wanted to be was stifling. I

The Nine Steps to Grow to Fullness

Marc René Deschenaux June 2, 2020

Knowing that expectations of others are illusions that lead to disappointment or anger The problems with those around us come from the fact that we want: their approval control them in their actions or reactions expectations destroy the enjoyment of reality, here and now. It is impossible to change another person; we can, on the other hand, change what we recognize in ourselves. Personal suffering, on the moral plane, comes from resistance to what is. All negative ways of being are based on fear. Forgiveness ends all suffering and all

Rules for the Direction of the Mind

Marc René Deschenaux May 12, 2020

is an unfinished work by René Descartes. The book contains rules for directing one’s mind. Among the 21 rules stated, only the first 18 are commented on by Descartes. Rules The aim of our studies must be the direction of our mind so that it may form solid and true judgments on whatever matters arise. We must occupy ourselves only with those objects that our intellectual powers appear competent to know certainly and indubitably. As regards any subject we propose to investigate, we must inquire not what other people have

Measuring Politician’s Performance

Marc René Deschenaux April 4, 2020

In my opinion, in 2020, we are still in the medieval period of politics. Any unqualified idiot can be elected to any function. There is no legal requirement for a minister of health to be a Medicinae Doctor, nor for the minister of urbanism to be an architect or a civil engineer, nor for the minister of Defense to have any military qualification. It is enough for him to have ideas that we like and be fair in rhetorics, as if s/he could manage with her/his ideas and words… Moreover,

IdeaS to improve the World

Marc René Deschenaux March 29, 2020

Since birth, I never liked politics. Even when I joined a municipal elections candidates team at age 18, I have always considered politics like the worst kind of bullshit, boring endless discussions without proper facts and arguments over ego-trips. As the world is managed by ego-tripped politicians who are the origins of most laws, (maybe I just accidentally found the reasons for most of problems on this planet!), I, as totally anti-political by nature, decided to communicate my political and sometimes philosophical ideas in this website. NO, I have ABSOLUTELY