Leibniz sells out and the science behind it

Hanover Line I-XX

Last time when we were perusing the mind that is the Hanover line of thought we spoke of a Lord of the Flies scenario involving boogers and playground slides. We were confident about the prospects of placing a cutesy photograph of a baby on it to generate income, we mean readership... We were right in our estimation. A lot of our posts recently have been focusing our attention on Search Engine Optimization, a technique used to increase readership and thus, profitability. Philosophy does not pay what it once did. There are no Holy Roman Emperors lining up to fill our pocketbooks these days and sadly, Paris has switched from philosophy to fashion. Therefore we have opted to sell out somewhat in order to eek out a living. Hence the donate button to the right.

By the way, if you have not donated a dollar to the cause of optimism then you are a pessimist. Pessimism is always a self-defeating existentially repugnant way of living. Do you want that label? We think not. Click the link and drop us a five spot so we can eat dinner tomorrow.

Back to our point about selling out. A new research has been financed to explain what part of the brain is active when people decide that profitability is more important than principles. Incredibly, even in this time of austerity this was probably financed indirectly or directly by some government. Remind us later to figure out how to write grants. We digress though...

People in this study were offered $100 dollars to sign a paper expressing the opposite belief that they held. More often than not they took the $100 bucks and moved on with their life. We here at Leibnizian Ramblings cannot hope to offer the same amount of money to finance such a study. However, we feel that we are good enough artists to offer you a sketch of whatever you would like in black and white or photoshop color if you sign a contract to repost fifteen of our blogposts. Our speciality is cubism recreations of current political figures or Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle compilations depicting current events. Click on one of the advertisements and shoot us an email and photo evidence of your patronage and we will draw what ever you like in whichever style you like (so long as it, in a Henry Ford type of way, involves stick figures). Our drawings make great hipster tee shirts...