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Tag: Consciousness

  • The materialist mind is trying to resolve an existential crisis.

    We are at a crossroads of civilization, facing contradictions that cannot be solved by the same logic that created them. We are attempting to answer the future of humanity with a mindset inherited from the past. “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans.” — John Lennon We live in the most […]

  • Altruism vs Selfishness

    Alexis de Tocqueville, nearly 200 years ago, cited extreme individualism as the potential Achilles heel of America democracy. He was struck by a pervasive self-regard that was a cardinal feature of the national personality – a fixed reference mark for how people saw the world and acted in it. The most evident risk, to his […]

  • Social Media Sirenading Us to Death

    Social Media Sirenading Us to Death

    The Sirens and Ulysses by William Etty, 1837 Just when I figured I had plumbed the depths of capitalism’s toxicity, I came across yet more proof; in fact, the apotheosis of toxicity. The toxicity to end all toxicity. Chris Hayes’ The Sirens’ Call: How Attention Became the World’s Most Endangered Resource (2025) describes how, with […]

  • Neoliberal Micro Psychology vs Communist Macro Psychology

    Neoliberal Micro Psychology vs Communist Macro Psychology

    Orientation This article is about the differences between the micro psychology of liberals and the macro psychology of communists. Differences include: how society and the individual is configured; the impact of capitalism on personal life; how the mind-body relationship is conceived; how the objective and subjective worlds are integrated; how politics impacts personal life and […]

  • The Collective Creativity of Workers

    The Collective Creativity of Workers

    Orientation One purpose of this article is to get you to think of creativity in a whole new way. Our notion of creative today is baked with the assumptions of a Romantic theory of art. These have their good points but they also limit us. In this article I want to argue that the most […]

  • The Problems with Purism and Reformism (not reforms)

    Over 20 years ago I wrote one of these columns examining the issue of “purism” versus “pragmatism” when it comes to organizing for systemic and desperately needed change in this world. I wrote about two essential ingredients that are sometimes in conflict. One essential is conscious political organization motivated by principles and a genuine desire […]

  • Jean Houston’s Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self

    Jean Houston’s Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self

    Orientation   How I came across Life Force: The Psycho-Historical Recovery of the Self                                                                                      […]

  • Pedagogical Panopticon

    At my relatively old age or state of maturity there are many things about which to dream. As a youth much of this nocturnal secretion necessarily extends beyond conscious experience. Hence we can easily believe that dreams are fantasy, in the sense of words describing what we could not have witnessed or done, at the […]

  • Cognitive Warfare, Targeting your Subconscious

    Cognitive warfare is no longer science fiction. Cognitive warfare is a fact of the modern age and everyone, whether civilian or military, is a potential target. Cognitive attacks are aimed at exploiting emotions rooted in our subconscious, bypassing our rational conscious mind. This is achieved by exploiting biases, fallacies, emotions and automatisms, but also through […]

  • Don’t Go Away Angry, Just Go Away

    Don’t Go Away Angry, Just Go Away

    I grew up taking people at their word. Even as a child I listened carefully to adults and gave thought to their interests and motives- but especially their actions. In the course of time one can see- at least I do- that those who hold any kind of power know they must be willing to […]

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