You’re in a conversation. It’s could be a good one or not, when someone cuts themselves off, looks at the others and declares solitarily, “What?” I love it when this happens. We generally are negative about criticism. This is wrong. It should be sought and valued. Rehabilitating the idea of criticism would advance our ability to communicate, our ideas, and would help neutralize vulnerability to those incapable fools who would weaponize it.

What is the threat of Socialism? Well, it’s not a threat to everybody. It actually more closely follows the values of humanity. For one thing, it is better at balancing equity and progressively distributing the country’s treasure. …

Our cartoonish depictions of cave men with clubs pulling women along by the hair exposes today’s self-aggrandized image projected from an ego bloated with presumption and lack of information. It could not have been easy for our early ancestors to depend on each other’s conceptual development as an aid to…

Nobody reads my stuff. I go through the motions anyway, because it keeps me in shape and I come to conclusions: Being mean is generally stupid and being nice is smarter. Empathy protects a bit against personal depression. If you don’t care about other people, you’ll never know fulfillment. Human…

The success of humanity is the result of intellect. The reality is that analysis and cooperation rule. We learn to avoid discomfort and to discover joy. But the intellect is invisible. So, ironically, we don’t always think of thought as our main power. That is a mistake. We don’t want…

Whether it’s physical or mental, depressions are something you fall into. It could be an obstacle or a wrong turn under a bad break flying in from left field. Distracted from our normal routines and responsibilities, stuff seems to pile up around us, literally and figuratively. Sometimes I forget that…