Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley
This section explores questions related to social order, control and the ways in which social interactions shape individual identity.
Artificial intelligence can serve as cognitive scaffolding, supporting structure, organization, and pattern recognition without replacing human judgment. The challenge is not whether to use AI, but how to integrate it without surrendering autonomy, discernment, and moral responsibility.
Self-improvement doesn’t always involve adding something more. Sometimes, the best approach is to remove the things that aren’t working.
A reflection on the intuitive foundations of social norms.
Democratic and Anarchist traditions are different in focus, but share some of the same foundations. Both are threatened by unchecked power.
The key to changing the world for the better isn’t signalling virtue through performance. It’s responsibility and self-regulation.
When moral performance masquerades as moral substance, outrage overshadows resolution. This article explores the inherent dangers that appear when morality becomes theater.
People tend to rely on heuristics and automatic processing in order to navigate daily life with speed and efficiency. This tendency fuels the cultural shift toward outrage and moral performance.
In a 2023 Pew Research Center survey, 61% of Americans reported feeling stressed when talking to people with opposing political views. That figure alone paints a grim picture of our national dialogue. Faced with discomfort, most people retreat to one of two instinctual responses: confrontation or avoidance. And so, our politics divide.
On one end, we have the loud and combative. The are quick to vilify anyone who challenges their tribe. On the other, the silent and withdrawn. They keep their beliefs close and their conversations safer still.
Non-comformity without purpose or reflection becomes dissent without understanding, and to conformity without agency.
We don’t always know the impact of seemingly insignificant, often forgotten actions we take in everyday life.
Our individual lives cannot, generally, be works of art unless the social order is also. Charles Horton Cooley This section explores questions related to social order, control and the ways in which social interactions shape individual identity.