Fear and Loathing of the Metaverse
What is the Metaverse and why are so many people afraid of it? Is this Mark Zuckerberg’s fault? Pull up a chair and let’s talk through this.
What is the Metaverse and why are so many people afraid of it? Is this Mark Zuckerberg’s fault? Pull up a chair and let’s talk through this.
When we consider the amount of our personal data that is on the Internet, it can get scary. How do we manage our digital footprint?
You might think that sex is everyone’s favorite topic, and for many it is, but when we start talking about value we change the conversation.
Our talk says we value health and medicine. Our actions say something different. Are we lying to ourselves?
Does education only exist to make us employable or is it meant to make us better people? There’s no agreement on the answer.
Family! We all have them, but do they raise our value or do they hinder it? What is the best structure for realizing our value?
What we do, our occupation, our work, is an important and unavoidable part of how our lives are valued. That value may be threatened.
Morality plays a large role in how we value life. Good is better than bad. The challenge is, how do we define what is good? This isn’t easy.
Using economic calculations to place a value on life often falls short of our perception of self-worth. Can one put a dollar value on life?
Every life presumably has value, but just how much value? Are some lives more valuable than others? Depends on one’s definitions.
With so much information available and infinite amounts of knowledge to consume, is there a limit to how much one person can know?
Independence Day, July 4, is the quintessential American holiday. Hold up. Before lighting any fireworks, let’s talk about true freedom
I don’t always remember what I’m doing, why I’m in this room, or how things work. Memory is complicated. Losing it is frightening.
Emotions are triggered when looking at my hands starts to remind me of a racist grandparent I never wanted to emulate.
Ending the one thing for which we’ve always been knowing, putting more than 35 years of experience on the shelf, was not an easy decision.
One strong trait of Americans is the extent to which we value our rights, our liberties. But what happens when my rights conflict with yours?
When we give up one thing we can discover something much better. but do we dare to give up something we think is important?
Stigmas of every kind stand in the way of us loving people who desperately need to be loved and we desperately need to love them.
Disney/Pixar’s movie “Soul” raises the question of “What is my purpose in life?” We’ve asked that for centuries. The answer is simple.
Our actions during the pandemic betray what we claim as our national identity. We are not nice people.
All predictions were that we would be a great society by 2020. Those predictions were wrong. 2020 is already disappointing.
It’s my birthday, but how many of us will be here for the next one? We’re dying too quickly and that’s a problem!
The New Yorker scooped my planned topic so we got all depressed and went this direction instead.
Being creative and maintaining that creativity raises a lot of questions and doubts and the fear that we’re all going mad.
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Striving for perfection sounds like a good thing right up until the point it causes a heart attack, or ruins a relationship, or makes life suck. We need to let go of perfection everywhere we can.
We have fallen victim to the good guy/bad guy mythology of Nationalism and it is a large part of what fuels our intolerance and racism.
There has been a lot of incendiary talk about abortion this week but if we truly value life we have to realize it’s the planet we’re about to abort.
Have we reached a state of permanent dystopia and injustice or are there some things we’re missing? We look at the numbers across the board.
Creating our own identity is a challenge that tests our resolve and determination but we come out stronger in the end.
Creating our own identity is a challenge that tests our resolve and determination but we come out stronger in the end.
Time got the best of me this week and there simply wasn’t enough time to complete my thoughts on the topic I had chosen for this post. Fortunately, there are alternatives. From the beginning of time, humans have questioned why we are here, what is our purpose. Religions were created …
Love. Sometimes it comes in a minute, sometimes it doesn’t come at all.
Before we blindly accept what we’re reading, perhaps we would do better to sit and discuss them a while.
Humanity is in danger of extinction for many different directions. How do we save humanity? By saving ourselves first. This isn’t at all selfish.