The Pollyanna proclivity is the face of a psychological coin, so to speak, that has denial as its reverse. This balancing proclivity compensates for denial. The two go together like two sides of one coin. Optimism refaces pessimism as a defense to preserve the ego’s equanimity, imaginarily saving the self from its ego. When one […]
1 — With A Bang. Geophysicists are aware that Earth’s magnetic field has been steadily weakening. The cause may be cyclic, but likely has to do with industry’s practice of spreading iron and steel all over the globe’s surface, in the form of cars, railroads, planes, home appliances, ships, heavy equipment and structural framing in […]
You’re an upstanding, fellow citizen of our town. I wish I could really respect you for your accomplishments in life, including financial status. But, I cannot feel what should be your due, for it seems that somewhere in your life you quit learning from experience, shriveled into a narrrow perception of our world and started […]
There is a moral cesspool around Wall Street, Treasury & Fed that threatens everyone. The following information from Greg Palast about Larry Summers and Tim Geithner should be known by every citizen in the Anglo-sphere, i.e., the English-speaking world. <http://www.alternet.org/economy/larry-summers-and-secret-end-game-memo?akid=10868.315724.EHPdNL&rd=1&src=newsletter890083&t=9> John Paulson and Lloyd Blankfein CEO of Goldman Sachs come off as criminals of the worst […]
“The Kochroach Theory, while less known than the Peter Principle, is also a proven and readily observable characteristic of those individual persons who have risen to extreme levels of moral and ethical incompetence, and are following the next path on their journey to establish ‘More is Not Enough’ as the guiding principle of the One […]
Three weeks before that rainy day when I heard John F. Kennedy was shot in Dallas, November 22, 1963, I had turned 32 years of age. My son was two years old and was with our usual sitter for the afternoon. His mother was at work in downtown Berkeley, at Shattuck Square. I was on […]
Bob Burnett, on Huffington Post, 8-27-31 writes: “Republicans don’t understand that it would be a terrible idea to crater the American economy because they’ve lost touch with reality. Hypnotized by a toxic blend of Reaganomics and Objectivism, Republicans don’t understand how the economy works or the concerns of middle-class families.” I add: They seem lost […]
We know that fraud, self-deceit and false consciousness run rampant in our world. That these exist is more evident than that a traditionally-conceived God exists. Fakery and reasoning on the basis of premises false to fact but accordant to wish or agenda is as common as fiat money. They have similar standing and use. Their […]
Once again I take issue with the mustiness of mental bags and boxes many folks live in uneasily but might like to escape. For transtheists like myself, the existence or non-existence of something called “God” is moot; merely an emotionally polarized issue culturally associated with immense verbiage and inflated attitudes, but which has no denotation […]
Our country, and thanks to us the whole western world, seems consumed with fear. After the Cold War, we remain irrationally defensive. Fear in various forms, from multiple causes and excuses, foists on us the most massively over-developed military organization ever to exist on earth, both relatively and absolutely. Why? Topping that is the ponderous […]