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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Wild Horses and Human Hearts

The experience of frequent and ongoing internal conflict is a perfectly normal part of the human condition. No exceptions; every epoch and culture has struggled with this.
philosophy
fromwww.theguardian.com
3 weeks ago

Stellan Skarsgard on Ingmar Bergman: The only person I know who cried when Hitler died'

Stellan Skarsgard described Ingmar Bergman as manipulative and noted his past Nazi sympathies, stating, 'He was a Nazi during the war and the only person I know who cried when Hitler died.' Skarsgard pointed out that Bergman had a strange outlook on people, believing that some were unworthy, which he felt influenced Bergman’s interactions with others.
Film
fromPsychology Today
3 weeks ago

Psychotherapy and Religious Values

In psychology, anyone who gets involved in or tries to talk in an analytic, careful way about religion is immediately branded a meathead; a mystic; an intuitive, touchy-feely sort of moron.” - Robert Hogan (1979)
philosophy
San Francisco
fromSFGATE
4 weeks ago

A trip to Alcatraz made it clear why Trump wants a prison here again

The color green on Alcatraz symbolizes spiritual death and reflects a potential grim future of incarceration under Trump's plans.
fromPsychology Today
2 months ago

William Shockley and the Nobel Sperm Bank

Shockley argued that people with IQs below 100 should be paid to undergo sterilization; a belief that reflects his severe misjudgment about human dignity and genetic worth.
Artificial intelligence
US politics
fromDefector
3 months ago

Welcome To The Scam Century | Defector

Florida symbolizes America's id, reflecting the nation's flaws in politics, economy, and moral complexities.
from24/7 Wall St.
3 months ago

2 in 3 Americans Feel They Personally Pay Too Much in Income Taxes - Do You?

Tax collection has been historically marred by abusive practices leading to societal disdain for tax collectors.
Modern tax burdens and government policies have become central issues influencing recent electoral outcomes.
fromwww.nytimes.com
4 months ago

Opinion | The Fantasy of Annexing Canada Has a Long and Mortifying History

U.S. interest in Canada has a historical precedent, often couched in lofty ideals and political ambition.
Parenting
fromFast Company
4 months ago

How the 'Severance' child-boss represents childhood under threat

The character Miss Huang reveals a profound truth about childhood and work in today's society.
fromwww.mediaite.com
5 months ago

MSNBC Guest Calls on U.S. to Cancel Presidents' Day Argues Trump Is an Example of Why: We've Had Some Real Duds'

I'm not sure that we necessarily want to celebrate the people. I think that we want to have a certain respect for the office... But by celebrating all of them, I do think it causes us to think of the president as somehow other, when in reality they are a citizen just like everyone else.
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fromwww.theguardian.com
5 months ago

Wages for Housework by Emily Callaci review dust off those protest banners

In 2025, social care and funding are crucial, showcasing how historical ideas like Wages for Housework may finally be acknowledged in contemporary discussions.
Writing
fromThe Atlantic
7 months ago

New Yorkers Won't Stop Complaining About Dogs

Dogs are so numerous in New York, indeed, that they have already become a nuisance," the journalist Charles Dawson Shanly wrote in The Atlantic in 1872. He was annoyed by "all the barking ... and there is a good deal of it." Other New Yorkers feared that the dogs roaming the streets were "deleterious to health..." Anxieties escalated to the point that "weakminded people began to look upon Ponto's kennel in the back yard as a very Pandora's box of maladies too numerous and appalling to be contemplated without terror.
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philosophy
fromThe Philosopher
1 year ago

"Imagination": An essay by Amy Kind (Keywords: Epistemology; History of Philosophy; Reason; Perception; Thought Experiments)

Imagination, often viewed negatively by philosophers, is ironically essential for their conceptualizations and arguments.
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