by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 23, 2014 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
This TED Talk explores the challenges of fighting for LGBT rights in the context and connections to the Civil Rights Movement. “For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of...
by Barry Fagin | Sep 22, 2014 | Politics & Law, Science & Pseudoscience, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, November 9, 2013, as “Future drug policy should include more freedom to choose”} It’s a warm and wonderful feeling to read The Gazette’s story about 6-year-old Charlotte Figi and...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 18, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
If guns are really inherently a problem, a cause of violence, then why do police have them? They’re only for “killing”, right? Some people actually unthinkingly mouth this, glaring contradictions aside. But any time you can breach the emotional...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 16, 2014 | Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
This TED Talk talks about how to “deal with a bully without being a thug”, something that applies to both individuals and nations. It talks about channeling anger instead of fueling conflict with it. Much more could take away from the deeply meaningful...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 11, 2014 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Psychology, Society & Culture
Just a quick thought: Terrorism is about attention more than anything. Violence is the tool, and fear is the fuel, but in the end it’s about attention. On the micro level, I have never seen strangers so enraged as when they are angry AND ignored. Now I would...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 3, 2014 | Society & Culture
{I found this in my records from May 2012, my response to an outright belligerent woman on LinkedIn who went too far in defending against sexism in Freemasonry, crossing the line into a dark, wholesale criticism of men. I think what directed her at me was...
