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.
Modern Gossip Hurts The Perpetrator As Well As The Victim
Gossip has existed among humans, ever since there were three or more speaking humans in a community on the face of the earth. With three humans, two of them can always pull aside so...
The Magical Order Created By Modern Conspiracies
A few days ago, I decided to go to a McDonald’s for a soft serve vanilla cone. As I sat there licking around the edges of the cone in order to prevent the ice...
The New Beginning The Trump People Wanted From January 6th.
The January 6th resurrection at the United States Capitol was an extremely abrasive event that had the potential to be an explosively abrasive event. If the people trespassing in the Capitol had succeeded in...
How Envy Is Used To Pull Us Out Of Numbness
Envy is the resentment one feels when someone else has something or is able to experience something that one is unable to have or to experience himself. Envy is the foundation of many quarrels...
The Desperation Of A Divided Self
The main existential question that has consistently come up in my articles is, now that we have succeeded in protecting ourselves from the dangers involved in living among the intense flowing blendable continual organic...
A Massacre That Hits Close To Home
Highland Park is one of the nicest suburbs of the so-called North Shore of the Chicago metropolitan area. It is home to the Ravinia Festival, a summer-long stream of musical events, of every genre...
The Issue Is Abortion
The flavor of the week in terms of controversial social and political issues is definitely the United States Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe vs. Wade. All my friends, acquaintances and family are obsessed with...
How And Why The Big Lie Grows In Importance In The U.S.
For a while it was the QAnon conspiracy theory that was capturing the attention of the American public, both among the believers and the skeptics. But now, as with one Corona virus variant replacing...
When Our Friendships Start To Crumble
Social isolation in the days of Covid has had a profound effect on the nature of and opportunities for friendship. Particularly towards the beginning of the pandemic, when each of us was instilled with...
Dying In Modern Technological Society
Death is a notion that generates many different ideas and attitudes in different cultures. For instance, some cultures have very elaborate afterlives. In other cultures, descriptions of the afterlife are quite minimal. Modern technology...