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,...
Mother Nature Is Not So Maternal Anymore
Nature has played a very important role in the discussions presented in this column. Nature is the foundational source of the organic stimuli for which human nervous systems were built. Most of the time,...
Juvenile Difficulties With Learning During The Age Of Covid
Two articles ago, I wrote on the effects of the interaction between Covid and modern consumer technology on the socialization of young people today. In this article, I want to focus on the effects...
Inertia Can Be A Painful Experience
Inertia, when applied to humans, means that you continue indefinitely in whatever state of activity you're in. If you're in a state of rest, you continue in a state of rest. If you're mindlessly...
Why Does Hamas Keep Dreaming Its Truly Impossible Dream?
Hamas has lost another of its improbable conflicts with Israel. Its infrastructure has to be rebuilt AGAIN; it lost many of its mid-level commanders; its prized tunnel system has been severely damaged. And because...
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 a way of projecting...
When Robots Become The Caretakers Of Our Bodies
Many aspects of our lives are changing as a result of the Corona virus. One important aspect is health care. When a doctor has to see a patient and when Zoom technology or something...
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...
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 making their positions known...
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...