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...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 26, 2020 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
TEACHERS. LAWYERS. MOTHERS. JOURNALISTS. MEDICS. VETERANS. The equivalent of Federal SWAT teams have been tear-gassing and “arresting” them, even breaking international standards for WAR by destroying medical supplies used to combat their unlawful use of...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 18, 2020 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
In what is possibly the most counter-productive proposal under a head-shaking euphemism of police “reform”, a county Sherriff is urging lawmakers to double down on the very things people are trying to fix. Instead of listening to the community to...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jun 24, 2020 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Someone asked what would have happened on 9-11 if the police had been “defunded”. The assumption is a worse disaster, and they may be right. There were a number of heroes in blue that fateful day in Manhattan when the towers were hit, and we should be...