by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 11, 2020 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
If you learn anything from Gandhi and Dr. King, et alia, it’s that the power of peaceful protest is to demoralize those who are doing violence against them. Only the most psychopathic souls can keep abusing people day after day, even if they are ordered to and...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 7, 2020 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
If someone is hurt in the course of police action, it’s not always the police’s fault. But when it is, making it about the rap sheet of the victim or what they may have done to not comply or “provoke” law enforcement is irrelevant. The Police...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 25, 2020 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
I grew to believe over my lifetime, that as Americans, our liberties have been chipped away at for generations and I often felt I was the rare crackpot that noticed or cared. There are countless laws and permits for every occasion, and I’ve written and spoken...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 7, 2020 | Psychology, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
There are many authentic conspiracies, and many we don’t even know about. The problem is that thanks to the Internet there are a THOUSAND TIMES more fake ones, and their prevalence is based on psychological stickiness, not fact. The real ones probably...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 10, 2020 | Society & Culture
I don’t know what people a hundred years will say about COVID-19. People only talk about the death tolls of the Spanish Flu a hundred years ago. But in the middle of this, I see life coming into focus as a society like never before. We’re rationing our...