by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 25, 2021 | Psychology, Society & Culture
A lot of people have been called sheep lately for the alleged characteristic of unthinking compliance. It’s a simple, direct way to explain away others’ behavior while countering virtue signaling. This would make sense except for one thing —...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 4, 2021 | Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
With my particular formal educational background and skills, I am able to “do my own research” on most subjects competently, at least on a basic level, even if I was not previously well-studied in those subjects. And I sometimes have to update and revise...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 16, 2021 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
I can tell you — as so many others can — that social media is not “silencing conservative voices”. In other words, if you spread dangerous lies about the election or vaccinations, or called for insurrection, and coincidentally (or not) you are...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 25, 2021 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
We regularly see sentiments pitting the Trades against the Professions, as much as reasonable people recognize they are both indispensable parts of the same body. Some memes are outright mean, while others are simply calls to de-normalize parents’ and...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 10, 2020 | Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
I have studied the psychosocial phenomenon of brainwashing for many years, and it is a blood cousin to something I also research and write about — ideological fanaticism. It took a while to see the pattern before me in our own nation, but now that I do,...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Aug 1, 2020 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Let’s get my one-paragraph soapbox out of the way: I used to find it intolerable that people don’t understand or accept that protest can be both peaceful and unpeaceful. After all, it may be peaceful all day across one or more cities, but then things seem...
