Laurence Mesirow
Trying To Maintain Some Natural Life In Modern Technological Society
Frequently in this column, I have talked about a dichotomy between traditional societies and modern societies. Traditional societies is a grab-bag term, an all-encompassing term which I use to describe everything from preliterate tribes...
Is Polarization The Only Way We Have To Feel Alive Today?
In many ways, American society seems more contentious and more divided than it has been in a long time. In politics, the long-simmering conflict between Democrats and Republicans that started under President Reagan is...
Abolishing Police Departments, Abolishing Communities
If ever there was a blatant case of throwing the baby out with the bath water, it’s in the movement in the U.S. to defund or even abolish police departments. There is no question...
Another Cause Of The Aftermath Of The George Floyd Murder
The Corona virus has been temporarily replaced as the outstanding narrative in the United States by the sadistic murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis. As a symbol of the horrors of centuries of white...
Is using A Lot Of Apps All That Appropriate?
There is something almost magical about all the different apps available on our smartphones to help us with almost every conceivable task and project that we may have. Supposedly there are 2.56 million apps...
Fighting Wars And Pandemics In Today’s World
A metaphor that is used quite frequently today in dealing with Covid 19 is that we are fighting a war. On one level, I can see why such a metaphor would be used. As...
Losing Intimate Contact With People And The World
Intimacy is a term that brings together a lot of related concepts regarding closeness and familiarity. There is a physical closeness regarding sex both with respect to an actual sexual encounter as well as...
Disrupting Our Lives With The Business Of Technology
Over the weekends, I frequently attend an entrepreneurs’ group, basically a mutual support and education group for people starting or running their own businesses. And lately, I have been thinking about the many different...
Shifting Our Attitudes Towards Nature And Technology
For the most part, in my column, nature has been the good guy, and modern technology has been the villain, at least in modern society. It is because I have tried to show that...
When Robots Become The Caretakers Of Our Bodies
Many aspects of our lives are changing as a result of the Corona virus. One important aspect is health care. When a doctor has to see a patient and when Zoom technology or something...
