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.
Minimizing The Importance Of Commitment In Romantic Relationships
In today’s world, the notion of staying committed to someone is becoming an increasingly difficult proposition with which to follow through. And yet it would seem natural that people would want to have a...
Is It True That The Future Is Female?
In this age of feminism and women’s liberation, one often hears the phrase, “the future is female”, bandied about. Women have more confidence than ever before to take on the skillsets and the jobs...
Modern Technology And Its Influence On Neo-Fascism
One of the United States’ great progressive thinkers, Robert Reich, posted an article the other day in which he focused on one of modern America’s most serious problems. Reich said that the infection of...
Putin Uses The Dream Of Empire To Pull Out Of A Vacuum
Although there have been discussions in this column about people displaying significant violence in modern times there has not yet been an article focused on someone quite like Vladimir Putin. There have been discussions...
Thoughts On A Central Notion Of Being Happy
In my last article, I discussed many different sub-meanings of happy as manifested in different synonyms. But yesterday, in a meeting of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle, people were grappling with what was, in...
The Different Kinds Of Happiness
Happiness is one of those words that has many nuanced sub-meanings. Joyous or joyful are sub-categories that refer to a more intense active expression of generalized positive feelings for a defined discrete period of...
Insights That Evolve In One’s Mind
In my last article, I focused on the process of revelation, both as an interactive process with spiritual entities in the external world, and as an internalized process, relating to surprising revolutionary insights. In...
The Limits Of Revelation
Most of us, when we think of a revelation, we think first of a religious transmission from God to humans. A message that we find in a scripture. After that we think of what...
The Importance Of Female Influence In Healing Our Planet
The responses of people to the growing presence of climate change on our planet are quite diverse. There is, of course, a vociferous minority that simply deny that it exists. Then there are the...
When Habits Become Compulsions
Habits are what give our lives structure. They are patterns of behavior that are repeated over certain time intervals. Some of them, like when men shave, occur usually once a day, unless a man...