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Tag: Mental health

  • 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 […]

  • Chatbot Dystopia: The Quick March of AI Sycophancy

    We really have reached the crossroads, where such matters as having coitus with an artificial intelligence platform has become not merely a thing, but the thing. In time, mutually consenting adults may well become outlaws against the machine order of things, something rather befitting the script of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World. (Huxley came to […]

  • What is Humanity’s Next Move?

    What is Humanity’s Next Move?

    United Nations Security Council hall (Image by depositphotos) At the UN General Assembly, now underway, world leaders are gathering to confront some of today’s greatest crises: Palestine, climate change, the war on drugs—even the role and relevance of the UN itself. Too often, however, the institution feels less like the pantheon of a new human […]

  • 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 […]

  • Thinking Beyond the Bars: How Higher Education Helped Me Develop Confidence in Myself and Rediscover My Humanity

    Ambitious young people are told that a college degree is necessary to launch a successful career. For me — a “lifer” taking courses from my cell in a state prison — higher education isn’t about job preparation but rediscovering my humanity, about learning to think beyond the bars. I’m not the first person to discover […]

  • 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 […]

  • Disinformation Isn’t the Problem: Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem

    Disinformation Isn’t the Problem: Government Coverups and Censorship Are the Problem

    What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer… And a […]

  • When You Suffer for Your Sanity and Struggle to Get Free

    Vincent van Gogh (Netherlands), The Starry Night, 1889. In 1930, Clément Fraisse (1901–1980), a shepherd from France’s Lozère region, was confined in a nearby psychiatric hospital after he tried to burn down his parents’ farmhouse. For two years, he was held in a dark, narrow cell. Using a spoon, and later the handle of his […]

  • Four Wars Old

    Four Wars Old

    At least 90 Palestinian children have been killed by Israel’s assault on Gaza so far. This visual tella the story of Palestinian children in Gaza, who have experienced multiple assaults and multiple types of trauma since 2007, leading to a widespread mental health crisis among youth.

  • Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives

    Authoritarian Control Freaks Want to Micromanage Our Lives

    Man is born free but everywhere is in chains. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Authoritarian control freaks out to micromanage our lives have become the new normal or, to be more accurate, the new abnormal when it comes to how the government relates to the citizenry. This overbearing despotism, which pre-dates the COVID-19 hysteria, […]

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