>"Mental and physical pain share neurological roots. A simple painkiller can help with both."

In my previous article, I argued that societies advance through four emo­tional regi­mes: from fear, to guilt, to shame, to Sklavenmoral (which, if the patt­­ern holds, is only truly becoming dominant in the most advan­ced mod­ern _...Read More_

"How particular music traditions became associated with emotional language is a question yet to be settled."

>"It's been a big week and you feel exhausted, and suddenly you find yourself crying at a nice nappy commercial. Or maybe you are struck _...Read More_

"Cain believes that the power of “bittersweetness” to encourage creativity and fulfillment is “dramatically overlooked,” and that this stymies people and companies from reaching their goals."

"They seem empathetic at first—but there's darkness under the surface."

"some thoughts on parul sehgal's essay and certain books"

"Both sides are a little bit right. In the appropriate contexts, masking your true self can be healthy and freeing."

"I know I am late, but you should trust me, it takes time to acknowledge one's emotional landscape, even as a Latin American. I've done a lot of inner work last year, my friends and I have."

>"You might think that horror movies are a delicious, trashy pleasure. But watching them has surprisingly wholesome effects"

"I don’t know the purpose of this ritual anymore. For years I thought it was to remind the populace why the U.S. was still occupying counties in the Middle East, but now that we’ve escaped Afghanistan, if barely, I wonder why we’re all _...Read More_

>"Consuming other people’s personalities as if you know them is a contemporary form of escapism"

An informative and interesting read. I love how they delve into multiple facets including the history, the science and the philosophy of this uniquely human effect.

Are we free? Are you, me and everyone else in the democratic West, the supposedly “free world”, as free as anyone is ever going to be? And how do we even measure how free a society is in the first place?