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...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 22, 2018 | Education, Philosophy & Ethics, Society & Culture
In an 8th Grade classroom of a charter school in Texas, a teacher hands out an assignment: to list the “pros” and “cons” under the heading “The Life of Slaves: A Balanced View”. Of course this was inappropriate, but not for the...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 2, 2018 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Posted on Facebook by Ryan S Bonnett, 28 February 2018} I’ve been doing some thinking, and while this is nothing that hasn’t been said by those smarter than I am, our issue is our cultural predisposition to a one problem, one solution system. I’m...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Dec 11, 2016 | Psychology, Society & Culture
Bullying is a trigger word these days. We have a newfound awareness that it is a real problem with real consequences, even fatal ones. But there is bullying and there is BULLYING. Physical harm, unwanted social contact (mostly cyberstalking these days), and exposure...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 26, 2016 | Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
Should we care if our species becomes extinct? I don’t mean should we try to avoid it from happening tomorrow. I mean if (when) the earth becomes no longer suitable for life, the backup plan seems to be to colonize other worlds. This TED talk suggests that to do...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Nov 4, 2016 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Facebook post by Ryan S Bonnett, published here with permission} Hi everyone. It’s going to be a rough few days as the election nears, so I figured we could have one, last, civil conversation about the whole thing. Mostly, I wanted to talk about how we got...
