Tag: Human Behavior
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...
Finding A Deeper Honesty In Today’s World
When we hear the word honesty, we think of a concept that is fairly simple and straightforward. But actually honesty serves two distinct purposes in life. First, when someone is honest with someone else,...
Juvenile Social Isolation In The Age Of Covid
Nowadays, there is a lot of concern expressed regarding the education of our children during Covid. There is, of course, concern expressed regarding the potential dangers for these children having in-person classes. So far,...
Ageing In An Age Of Planned Obsolescence
The other day, I was in a discussion with about 10 other people – all seniors – about aging. The moderator asked all of us what was the first thing that we thought of...
Are Private Militias Going To Take Over The World
Since Trump became president, there has been an enormous growth of private militias in the United States. There are a few reasons for this. One of them is based on pure racism. There is...
When Life Doesn’t Smell Right
It is encouraging to see that there are still some people around who are interested in propping up one of the five senses that is normally pushed aside in the technological transformation of society. ...
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,...
How Trump And The Republicans Influence Their Followers
Pollsters and pundits are beating their heads against the wall trying to figure out how they got it so wrong in their predictions for American elections. Nobody thought that the presidential race was going...
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. ...
The New Normal Won’t Be Very Normal
The main question on everyone’s mind today is when will things return to the way that they were before the pandemic. When will things return to “normal”? Okay, not everybody is asking this question. ...