Laurence Mesirow
I am a writer who has been concerned about the effects of modern technology on human living environments and human behavior for many years.
The Third Component Of Emotional Disturbance
Living environments have an enormous influence on the way that human beings live. In more traditional living environments the influence has been even more acute. International trade was not such a determining factor in...
The Importance Of Pain In Human Survival
I know I have spent a lot of time in my column talking about the importance of organic stimuli in our lives and how the gradual erosion of our natural and traditional living environments...
The Erasure Of Work From The Human Narrative
The other day I attended a zoom meeting of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle, where the guest speaker was a man who specialized in sustainable investments for a very large asset manager from the...
Gradually Losing One’s Connection To The Earth
Grounding is a term that appears quite frequently in this column. By it, I am referring to the organic connection that holds people psychologically and physically to a particular living environment. Usually, traditional people...
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,...