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Tag: Psychology

  • 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 […]

  • Biological Devil-ution Rather than Religious Deities Fighting over the Heavens

    Biological Devil-ution Rather than Religious Deities Fighting over the Heavens

    “Devil-ution,” a function of evolutionary biology explains human unrest much better than notions of deities fighting over the heavens. Religious wars have never relented. Self-anointed demigods have plagued human history, pretending that faith-based blood lines constitute science. However, modern science takes a different tact. Today, psychologists and psychiatrists bemoan the fact that psychopathic megalomaniacs are […]

  • Suspending Courses, Washing Delicates, and Baking: A University Justifies Harming Staff and Students

    These people are a charming, lynch worthy bunch. In claiming they are short of cash, the managerial dunderheads at the University of Technology Sydney thought it prudent to throw A$4.8 million at the tax consultants KPMG to design what it calls the Operational Sustainability Initiative (OSI). The linking of these three words alone suggests that […]

  • 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 […]

  • 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 […]

  • Joie de Vivre: Reclaiming a Positive Vision in Troubled Times

    Joie De Vivire, 1946 by Pablo Picasso Not recognizing the magic of the present moment may just be a crime against our humanity. In my recent article, From Personal Development to Human Development, I explored the imbalance between our inner growth and society’s relentless focus on external activity. One of the greatest obstacles to genuine human […]

  • 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 […]

  • “Childish” Adolescence

    “Childish” Adolescence

    Not one to enter discussion on the cultural relevance of television shows often, it is hard to miss the fervour surrounding Netflix’s Adolescence, which recounts the dramatized events surrounding the investigation of a brutal teenage murder of a young female by the protagonist Jamie, a 13-year-old boy. Not wishing to belabour the extent analysis on […]

  • 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 […]

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