One of the most common sources of difficulty for most of us is frustration – we can get frustrated with the smallest things, throughout the day. And yet, becoming aware of how often we’re frustrated doesn’t quite solve the problem. Someone pointing out that you’re frustrated only makes you more irritated. How can we let go of our frustrations, and find calm?
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A Pizza Problem: Why Those Third Party Polls Don’t Pan Out
Plurality or majority support for a generic third party in principle is not the same thing as plurality or majority support for a specific third party in the voting booth. In practice, most voters who say they want a third party end up voting Republican or Democrat, or just not voting. Why?
Evolution V — Change of Politics
The definition only mentions dishonesty once, power once, and control once. Yet politics today is dominated by dishonesty about power and control.
Education and Its Discontents
What is taught to the students at school is basically: “You have no choice in where you will be. If you do not do as I tell you, worse things will happen to you. If you follow orders, better things will happen to you.” The subject here is learning to accept the basic context of being in a prison and to follow orders to escape a worse fate. The kind of learning environment that I support can more or less fit under the category of unschooling.
Assumption of Risk, Where Art Thou?
One of the major lessons we learn growing up is understanding the concept of risk, that is, the possibility of getting hurt. Different activities have more or less risk as it concerns our physical safety. When we join a gym, our assumption of risk is explicit in the form of a written and signed waiver. This protects the gym from being sued when we injure ourselves. Does this concept have any place in the current discussion on sexual harassment and sexual assault?
Education Needs to Be Uber-ized
The possibilities for education without conventional schooling are almost limitless, and we are already seeing many of these models gain popularity and presence.
Liberty, Democracy, and the Right
I am mystified by the claim that the long-standing libertarian critique of democracy furnishes aid and comfort to conservatives who display a taste for populist authoritarianism.
The Truth Comes
The truth does not break natural laws to come upon us unforeseen. If the truth is unforeseen, it is because we did not look.
Self-Ordering
Isn’t this POTUS something else? He commits gaffes by the hour. For a while there, I feared he would not self-destruct, but he is about to finish a year of singular failure.
Why It Matters Whodunit
On reflection, though, whodunit is tremendously important. Why? Because in our society, the routine reaction to mass murder is to try to punish millions of innocent people. In a just society, mass murderers’ group identity wouldn’t matter.