Laurence Mesirow
Being Self-righteous In Order To Avoid Feeling Numb
Self-righteousness is growing these days alongside the growth of online social media. Social media like Facebook and Twitter provide the perfect platforms for the online equivalent of soapboxes. In the old days, there used...
Taking Risks In Order To Feel Alive
The latest idea that my entrepreneurial group dealt with was an app for the phone that reinforced good driving habits among young drivers so that they get into less severe and less frequent accidents. ...
When We Become Machines, We Become Strangers To Ourselves
Planned obsolescence is a term that we have normally heard applied to cars and other sophisticated modern machines. It relates to the notion that companies cannot make machines last for too long of a...
Trump As An Antidote For Numbness
In previous articles, I have discussed the notion that Donald Trump’s flip-flopping on issues, far from being something that hurts him in the eyes of his followers, is actually something that helps him. And...
Solving The Problems Of Life Without Machines
In navigating the pathways in our lives, we all are confronted with lots of problems to solve on a regular basis. Problems are those situations that have to be corrected in order to make...
Today We’re Overwhelmed By Simply Talking With One Another
The whole nature of conversation has been changing over these last years. For one thing, conversation no longer necessarily involves spoken utterances. As a matter of fact, for many people, including most young people,...
How Technology Is Becoming More Interesting Than Ideas
My Saturday morning entrepreneur group has been an ongoing theme in this column. And this is very simply because so many of the situations that unfold at its meetings are extremely relevant to my...
Robots here! Robots there! Robots everywhere!
As modern technology invades more and more areas of our daily lives, we are increasingly surrounded by more and more layers of mediated experience. All the layers of screen reality: movies, television, video games,...
Perfection For Eternity And In The Moment
Perfection is that to which we aspire in many of the phenomena in our lives, whether they be objects, activities, processes, interactions, relationships or atmospheres. It is that which makes something flawless and complete. ...
What Is Really Being Cancelled Out With Cancel Culture
The notion of cancel culture refers to the boycotting or shunning of someone whose behavior or speech is deemed in some way objectionable or controversial. The boycotting or shunning can damage a person’s reputation...
