What is money? And why is debt such a problem? The answers lie within.
Read More »Intimate Partner Violence (feminist’s shame)
Surprise surprise surprise. Men are abused by their intimate partners just as much as women are.
Read More »Are Scientists Spiritual?
Are scientists spiritual? The answer is yes! Recent research suggests that the majority of scientists at top universities in North America have spiritual leanings, even though they may not like to admit it.
Read More »What is Sociology?
What is Sociology? Glad you asked. Sociology is the study of the world that we create.
Read More »What is Religion?
Most sociologists would say religion is either fantasy, social gathering, or elite machination; but in fact it is so much more.
Read More »Information, Corporations, and the Free Will Self-delusion
Corporations and governments received heavy criticism for influencing the minds of the public in the 1950s and 60s: corporations for manipulating a potential purchase and governments for deliberately guiding people through the city. In 1955, Guy Debord criticized, “Present-day urbanism’s main problem is ensuring the smooth circulation of a rapidly increasing number of motor vehicles. A future urbanism may well apply itself to no less utilitarian projects…”. He suggests the threat of control is timeless, only the practice changing method.
Read More »The American Nightmare
This photo of my parents reveals much about their personalities (her’s vivacious and outgoing, his withdrawn and closed off), their relationship (little real contact), and also the times. The typicality of their lives reveals much about the USA. My mother ...
Read More »The Ideology of Darwin
Humanity used to believe in God, but now they believe in Darwin. This is a bit of an extreme statement, since most people still believe in God, but the sentiment is accurate. Darwin's theories of the MECHANISMS of evolution has had a major impact on the social, emotional, and even spiritual fabric of this planet. There is a problem though. In a lot of ways Darwin's theories seem more like canon, or ideology, than good science. This article explores early awareness of the ideological nature of Darwinian theory, and provides some suggestions on how scientists can break free of dogma that has more to do with religion than with good science.
Read More »A Turn to Hegel
What is money? What is the nature of money? This is a problem that has occupied Sociologists since Karl Marx wrote his magnum opus, Das Kapital. If you go by Karl M's massive, or by any of the many Economics 100 texts (which often don't even bother to define money), money is a mystified, magical thing that requires incredible effort to understand. In reality though that's not the case. Money is simply abstracted labour, pure and simple. Once you understand that, then you have the key to understanding the whole of modern society, including the pernicious problems we all face, problems caused by the easy way money allows us to accumulate labour.
Read More »Killing the little girls of the world – the lingering problem of female infanticide
In our country, babies are considered weaker if they are born female. In some other countries, babies are murdered at birth if they are born female.
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