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...
by Barry Fagin | May 30, 2011 | Psychology, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 7-28-06, a follow-up to a previous article.} Yesterday I wrote about the uneasy relationship between spirituality and animal instinct. Religion is at its best when it calls us to something higher, to master our baser nature...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | May 29, 2012 | Uncategorized
This TED Talk is by [[Melinda Gates]], and deals with contraception as giving women and couples choices, pointing out their measurable impact on lifting up families and even countries from poverty. And although the video is not about politics, the implications are...
by Fulano de Tal | Oct 26, 2012 | Uncategorized
Guy Debord,[1] in his major work, The Society of the Spectacle[2], argued that modern capitalism inverted the ontological order by placing the primacy of the image or representation over the ‘real’. This was a perspicacious and vital critique, which takes on ever...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Feb 28, 2012 | Business & Economics, Society & Culture
This is a great TED Talk in my opinion, because it weds Women’s issues with economic development issues in the developing world and globally.