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Tag: Emotion

  • Practicing Vulnerability: A Black Man’s Struggle toward Understanding and Belonging

    From an early age, most boys absorb the message—whether stated directly or modeled by the men and women in their lives—that to be a man is to be tough. I learned that early. In my household, crying got me grounded or spanked, or both. And, of course, I was expected not to cry about the […]

  • A Not-so-Tongue-in-Cheek “Trumpian Traumatic Stress Disorder”

    A Not-so-Tongue-in-Cheek “Trumpian Traumatic Stress Disorder”

    No doubt like many others who awoke to the news that President Maduro of Venezuela and his wife, Cilia Flores (a serving member of the Venezuelan National Assembly with a distinguished career in government), had been ‘captured’ or ‘seized’ by the US and were being transported to NYC to stand trial, my initial reaction was […]

  • 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 […]

  • An Ode to Those Trapped under the Rubble

    An Ode to Those Trapped under the Rubble

    Palestinians under the rubble after Israeli airstrike of homes in the Gaza Strip. © 2023 UNRWA Photo by Ashraf Amra, CC BY-SA 4.0  How can I describe this thing that happened to me? Was it a lucid dream? A vision? A trance of sorts? Whatever I can think to call it, I would not call […]

  • Our Corporatized Milieu: From Chronic Stress to Depression

    Our Corporatized Milieu: From Chronic Stress to Depression

    In the United States today, everyday life has become for many an anxiety-driven race to nowhere, a stress-filled sprint on the work-and-spend treadmill. Under such dehumanizing conditions, people try to cope with such chronic stress through compulsive access to mood-altering drugs, food, alcohol, TV, the Internet, shopping, pornography and sex. Several decades ago, responding to […]

  • 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 […]

  • Plea in Defense of a Trade Unionist Facing Expulsion for Supporting Palestine

    For initiating a petition denouncing the French CGT Confederation’s stance on Palestine after October 7, Salah was defamed and expelled from the union. This troubling case, part of a global witch-hunt against supporters of Gaza, deserves some attention. Interventions and comments by Professor Bruno Drweski, who defended Salah L. during the proceedings for his permanent […]

  • Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Orientation The mismatch between the complexity of the world and the simplistic manner in which we think about it The social, economic and political world in which we live is extremely complex, but  most of the Yankee population does not have the thinking skills that can make intelligent decisions about this world and what to […]

  • Wellness as Tyranny: The Cult of Toxic Happiness

    Be happy.  Think of your wellness.  Across organisations, private and public entities, government bodies and social clubs, the cult of contrived happiness abounds with ritualistic, clotting repetition.  In such cases, the forced grin, the pressured smile, the affected giggle, have become part of a project of puppeteering, manipulation and manufacture.  Critics of such approaches are […]

  • The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations

    The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations

     Orientation Left and right brain divisions and dependencies Why is the brain so clearly and deeply divided? Why are the two cerebral hemispheres asymmetrical? Is the division of labor in the brain complete or do the sides overlap in functions? A lot of what we once thought went on in one hemisphere alone is now […]

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