Reassurance. Everybody seeks this. We need to feel assured, especially when we are young, that we are OK. That we are fine. That we are knowledgeable, acceptable, impressive, wise, worthy, loved, whatever… We grow up looking for this reassurance from outside of ourselves: Mothers, fathers, teachers, leaders. As we mature, we seek it elsewhere: Religion, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘status’
Nature recycles patterns
Nature reuses patterns. If you see a mathematical distribution, pattern, type of organization or even something you could flowchart in one place, you’ll see it in another: All the bacteria living inside you would fill a half-gallon jug; there are 10 times more bacterial cells in your body than human cells, according to Carolyn Bohach, [...]
Obama and the end of racial balance
Back in election 2008, many people voted for Barack Obama out of a simple desire to fix the racial inequities and conflict in the United States, a problem that has plagued us for centuries and peaks, periodically, in riots like Watts (1967) and L.A. (1992). The thinking was that if all people are finally made [...]
Reality imitates satire
When you criticize society as a writer, you immediately find yourself oriented toward the commonly observable things that are universally socially denied. We can list them here, briefly: Biology: we are not the final stage in evolution. Politics: we are not all equal in ability or reward. Social: we get ahead by manipulating others Business: [...]
