Wednesday, March 24 2004
The Encroachment of the Public
As privacy fades, so do intimacy, personal safety, and self-esteem (mental health) and with them social cohesion.
Wednesday, February 11 2004
The Pathology of Love
Behavior changes are reminiscent of psychosis and, biochemically speaking, passionate love closely imitates substance abuse.
Wednesday, January 21 2004
The Basic Dilemma of the Artist
We are prisoners in the universe of our emotions; our weapons of language are useless.
Wednesday, December 10 2003
The Columnist in the Mousetrap
Agatha Christie's opus is a portrait of our age as it emerged, all bloodied and repellent, from the womb of the dying Victorian era.
Wednesday, November 5 2003
An Argument for State-Sanctioned Torture
Inevitably, the very act of being rendered suspect is traumatic and bound to inflict psychological, pecuniary, and physical pain and suffering.
Wednesday, October 1 2003
Morality as Collateral Damage
The universal imperative 'thou shall not kill (another human being)' is easily over-ruled by the moral obligation to kill for one's country. The imperative 'though shall not steal' is superseded by one's moral obligation to spy for one's nation.
Thursday, September 4 2003
The Folly of Parenthood
Many (children) continue to live with their parents into their thirties and consume the family's savings in college tuition, sumptuous weddings, expensive divorces, and parasitic habits.
Thursday, July 24 2003
The Myth of Mental Illness
Suicide, substance abuse, narcissism, eating disorders, antisocial ways, schizotypal symptoms, depression, even psychosis are considered sick by some cultures -- and utterly normative or advantageous in others.
Wednesday, July 2 2003
Just War or a Just War
What is legal is not always moral and what is legitimate is not invariably legal.
Wednesday, June 4 2003
The Ecology of Environmentalism
Arguably, bacteria and insects exert on Nature far more influence with farther reaching consequences than Man has ever done.
