Tag: Anxiety

  • Aporophobia

    Aporophobia is a negative attitude toward poverty that often culminates in an irrational fear of very poor people. It is the plight of being terrified by physical destitution when having to walk by a boozed-up bum. The word comes from the ancient Greek áporos (without resources). It sums up the horror the well-meaning citizen experiences […]

  • What It Means to Be Human

    Various domesticated bird species usually run around the farm, including guinea fowl. We love our guinea fowl because they spend their days eating bugs: including ticks, flies, and other noxious pests. Guinea fowl are funny creatures, with colorful bald heads, speckled feathers, long legs, and oddly shaped bodies. We often view them as comic relief […]

  • What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

    What It Means to Go Back-to-School in the American Police State

    Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. —Investigative journalist Annette Fuentes It’s not easy being a child in the American police state. Danger lurks around every corner and […]

  • Human Connection and Social Change

    Standing on a corner, alone, in the early morning half-dark, half-light, You, waiting for the commuter bus to take you to the Big Apple, Me, on one of my 3/4 times a week long distance bike rides, approaching you, 30-20-10 feet away, And our eyes meet, followed a second or two later by a smile, […]

  • Indoctrination, Intimidation and Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today

    Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. — Annette Fuentes Investigative journalist, When the School House Becomes a Jail House This is what it means to go back-to-school […]

  • The Causes of Dogmatism

    The Causes of Dogmatism

    Orientation In part I of this series, following the work of Judy J. Johnson in What’s so Wrong with Being Absolutely Right: The Dangerous Nature of Dogmatic Belief, we identified dogmatism — not as the content of a particular ideology but as a process of thinking, emoting and acting. We distinguished dogmatism from fanaticism and […]

  • The Dogmatic Personality

    The Dogmatic Personality

    Orientation Dogmatisms as a process not content What does it mean to think dogmatically about something? On the surface, dogmatism seems associated with religious beliefs. While most world religions can be dogmatic, this implies there is no dogmatism outside of religion. We know that is not true. Many people accuse socialists of being dogmatic. In […]

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