Society is polarised but this is nothing new. What’s new is the way the widespread availability of facts and truths haven’t brought more reasonable rational people closer together. Pete thinks about reasons why.
The data seems to suggest most human beings are “on the spectrum” – which was unexpected – but likewise most are inside the bell curve of unimpaired neurological function. Does this mean most of us class as autistic? Is a touch of autism the new normal?Read More
The green knight, as he often does, throws his hat in the ring with a no nonsense demystification of some pros and cons for the recent trend in separating hallucinogens and encouraging ‘responsible’ psychedelic experience (D.M.T. or psilocybin “magic” mushrooms).
As an autodidact, Maggie Hetherington is no fan of the entitled privilege of academic gravy trains. Here she makes a case for intelligence being not a failure in school but failed by traditional schooling.
Maggie used to teach English so her interest in linguistics makes her an ideal choice for an article on the way language is being colonised by political ideologies Left and Right; and how this matters more than anything currently classed as cultural appropriation.
Thoughts on the true nature (or convenient delusion) of human Free Will. Does having or not having Free Will matter?Read More
The blue smurf spends a minute thinking about the collective unconscious and how mood dictates opinion, perspective creates belief and how we’re all sycamore spinners on the wind.
The Green Knight likes to think. Bertilak likes to take mind altering substances. The Green Knight gives some serious thought to the concept of cognitive dissonance and how it seems to infected everyone without sending anyone insane, somehow resisting antidotes like fact and truth.