Trying To Absorb That Which Keeps Us Human
One of the major points that has been brought up repeatedly in this column since its inception is that modern technological living environments create configurations of stimuli that are difficult for humans to absorb. ...
How Our Experience Of Time Changes As Modern Technology Changes
One notion that has been discussed lately by some in the news media with regard to the American withdrawal from Afghanistan has been how the Americans and the Taliban have such different conceptions 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...
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...
Helping Others With Our Feelings
One form of bonding that is very important for helping us to deal with the suffering of others is empathy. Empathy allows us to get inside the mind of the sufferer in the hopes...
Hamas and its sense of victimhood
One aspect of the situation with Hamas that wasn’t really discussed very much in the last article is its sense of victimhood. Victimhood is a state of mind, an ongoing internal experience that exists...
The Use Of Meditation In Modern Technological Society
The Corona virus has caused all of us to focus perhaps as never before on the concept of vaccination. The notion of vaccination has been used to convey a very important process that has...
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...
Intermarriage and peace on earth
The other day I was engaged in a discussion with members of the Chicago Ethical Humanist Circle about how to get rid of all the racial, ethnic and religious hatred that has abounded in...
The Dark Side Of Good Works
It seems to be increasingly popular and even fashionable these days for people to get involved in doing what they perceive as good works. A lot of these good works on the left involve...