From 2001 to 2004, I worked/lived in India. I saw firsthand heartbreaking poverty. My takeaway from my experience in India is that North Americans have no real problems, just 1st world problems. Our financial stress, feeling unsuccessful, constantly seeking fulfillment is caused by marketing propaganda’s influences and overabundance. It’s no secret that marketers and advertisers…
Category: Culture
Will Social Media Companies Ever Make Fighting Online Abuse a Priority?
Is it just me who believes we’ve lost our ability to have civil discourse? Every day, we rely on social media platforms to engage with like-minded people, promote ourselves, our work, and/or business. Unfortunately, the downside of increasing your visibility, especially when you wade into an online discussion with an unpopular opinion, is you become…
Assessing Socioeconomic Disadvantage in College Admissions
Intelligent recently reported that 34 percent of whites who applied to college falsified their applications by wrongly claiming that they were racial minorities. According to the research, white males lied 48 percent of the time. White females only lied 16 percent of the time.[1] In a follow-up tweet, Professor Ibram X. Kendi asserted that the…
‘Keeping in Mind: Social and Scientific Perspectives on Psychiatry’
1 ‘Keeping in Mind: Social and Scientific Perspectives on Psychiatry’. Dónal MacEoin. Dec. 2021. Galway, Ireland. Epigraph “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”- George Bernard Shaw. Abstract The turn of the 21st century has been a particularly socially exhausting period of time. For mental health rights,…
Numerology Effects and Number Meaning
Numbers affect each other: they reinforce, balance, and weaken each other’s effects. The predominance and lack of numbers is also a problem. The energies missing from the numeroscope can be imported somewhat with a proper name change, on the one hand, and by choosing a partner who has the energies missing from us (synastria), on…
Economic Emancipation VS Wage Slavery in the USA
If you own enough wealth producing capital assets such as land, buildings, machinery, patents, copyrights, stocks, or bonds YOUR MONEY IS WORKING FOR YOU and it’s probably producing a stream of capital income from which you benefit. On the other hand, if you own nothing more than your own labor (your ability to perform work)…
Negotiation etiquette: why conspicuous body armor can make negotiations difficult. The opinion of owner of “Demidov Armor”
An owner of the atelier just moved to the capital for business in the line of selling body armor. The atelier is named “Demidov Armor” and has now an outlet in the capital. The clients of the company are not just businessmen but also government officials and security companies. They provide the overall best body…
Has carnism gone too far?
Society and environmental conditioning have been causing significant pressure and impact on our decisions, as well as the eating norms, so it’s not uncommon that people give up their ideas, succumb to peer pressure, and blindly follow what the majority does, without ever questioning it. Over the last few decades, due to the farming industry…
Defending America’s Democracy? Here’s How to Fund it!
In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, his totally unproven claims of election fraud, the January 6th insurrection, and in the midst of Republican attacks on voting rights across the nation, there’s also been a lot of talk about DEFENDING AMERICA’S DEMOCRACY. But the critical aspect of “how to fund a political democracy”…
How to Build Back Better Without INFLATION!
Inflation is what happens whenever the government prints money that’s backed ONLY by INCREASED DEBT instead of tangible assets, and then distributes it in order to save the ship of state from sinking into oblivion. Witness the current surging prices of gasoline, food, and housing across the nation. Yes Dorothy, the dollar is worth less,…