"It's almost inevitable that social media forces us to see ourselves as objects—so why not opt out of the human image?"

>"Daniel Goleman’s pop-psychology blockbuster, now twenty-five years old, turned self-control into a corporate management tool."

There is quite a bit here. I have not had the time to spare 2 1/2 hours, but based on the first 5 min or so it seems ballpark relevant for this community. It does kind of jump right into the deep end of the pool in the portion I watched.

>"Naïve realism is the psychological condition in which people believe they see the world objectively and their opponents as uneducated, _...Read More_

So much I want to say about this. How the Polyvagal Theory expresses this. How our behaviors point to a deeper thing going on internally, underneath the surface. How this can be applied to a conversation about racism...

The way we think about pain could change how much we actually suffer

The following is a slightly edited extract from Hanzi Freinacht’s book ‘Nordic Ideology: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book Two’. This is the second book in a _...Read More_

The United States of America was founded on a conspiracy theory. In the lead-up to the War of Independence, revolutionaries argued that a tax on tea or stamps _...Read More_

"Implicit bias training does not curb racism in police departments. And yet the fantasy persists that this is the way to address antiblack police violence."

"If you’re constantly cruel to yourself, you’re going to feel the same as if another person was constantly cruel to you."

>"Have you ever heard an apparently persuasive and logical argument that comes to an absurd conclusion? Philosophy is known as a “love of wisdom.” Philosophers study fundamental questions of the…"

I really like this post as shown as below. As these books celebrate their 75th anniversary, they still dominate children’s literature in their home countries of Sweden and Finland, and are about to be introduced to a new generation. Heyday _...Read More_