Creating A World Of Relationships Through Images
All right! So I have a lot to be thankful for during this Corona virus crisis. I have a roof over my head: a place where I can shelter in …
Laurence Mesirow
Being Consumed By That Which We Want To Consume
The elephant in the room of public discourse today is obviously the Corona virus. We are bombarded with so much information about the disease, as if all the information in …
The Hurricane Of Modern Political Change
23The United States is having a very exciting presidential campaign season this year. From a field of over twenty candidates, a field of extremely diverse candidates who battled mightily in …
Giving Up Free Will To A Charismatic Leader
One of the philosophical foundations of a democracy is the belief in free will. We are free to make choices that involve our moral values: our freedom in what we …
Will We Be Too Numb To Save Our Planet?
A problem which I have not really covered in this column, but which is sort of like the metaphorical elephant in the room of modern terrestrial society, is that of …
Magic That Is Close To The Skin
In most cultures, people have worn things around their neck to protect them from negative energies, from evil forces, and also to give them positive energies, constructive powers. It is …
When Life Becomes A Game
Apart from the purely recreational element, games serve another very important purpose both for human individuals as well as social groups. Through a game, a person is able to extract …
The Impossible Task Of Always Pinning Down What Is True
In today’s world, the main entity of knowledge by which people apprehend the world is a datum. Unless something lends itself to verification by the empirical evidence that a datum …
Living On A Psychological Treadmill
In today’s world, people increasingly define themselves and are defined by others with regard to what they do rather than who they are. The more that daily life becomes easier, …
Solving Meaningless Problems To Feel Alive
The human need to have some kind of control over his living environment has been fundamental to his survival. Control comes in many forms: superior knowledge, sharpened skills, good financial …