Year: 2021
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Overcoming Systemic Issues of Alienation
The largest group of young people is struggling to adapt itself to the prevailing values of society. Without much enthusiasm, they accept the system of government, the economic relations, the property system, and the social…
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Doubt Helps Us Understand Our “Reality”
We never see the world as it really is. It’s literally impossible to see the world accurately. In fact, you’re brain doesn’t even care about seeing the world accurately. It evolved to see the world…
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The Greatest Wicked Problem: The Psychology of Denialists
We are approaching a point where those denialist efforts are more than cynical, irresponsible and self-interested: they are starting to look like crimes against humanity. This is very much a personal account of one climate…
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Crystallizing Meaning By Recognizing Chunks of Patterns
…explorations of what it means to be human is The Ravenous Brain: How the New Science of Consciousness Explains Our Insatiable Search for Meaning (public library) by Cambridge neuroscientist Daniel Bor in which, among other…
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We Are In Story Limbo
“Americans have traditionally demanded coherent and simple national stories,” she has written. “Now many of these stories no longer make any sense. But so far nothing has replaced them. We are in story limbo, and…
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Imagination: A Liminal Gap for Our Inner Space
Imagination is intrinsic to our inner lives. You could even say that it makes up a ‘second universe’ inside our heads. Contrary to this interpretation, I want to suggest that imagination, properly understood, is one…
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Employer & Employee Disconnect Due To Different Realities
Business leaders are “holding on to the remnants of the past” by failing to recognize fundamental shifts in the workforce — leaving them with a potential talent exodus on their hands. This disconnect between employer…
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The Pandemic Reveals Our Already Degraded Humanity
Great article but I would change one thing about it. It’s title. The Pandemic isn’t to “blame” for us losing our humanity. We were already losing it well before it happened. This concurs with so…
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Being In Denial Isn’t Caused By Being Uneducated
Yet many well-educated people sincerely deny evidence-based conclusions on these matters. But things don’t work that way when the scientific consensus presents a picture that threatens someone’s ideological worldview. “Motivated reasoning” is what social scientists…
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Denial Leads To Destructive Behaviour
Denial is a type of defense mechanism that involves ignoring the reality of a situation to avoid anxiety. Defense mechanisms are strategies that people use to cope with distressing feelings. In the case of denial,…
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