Damian Price

The over-psychologization of modern society As someone who is predisposed to self-reflection and the philosophical life journey, early on in my short life I found that I was struggling with deep, protracted emotional issues. I needed answers, I needed help. I felt that life wasn’t worth living

Justice: "The broad idea of a situation where people receive that which they deserve." Over the last several years of American cultural life the criminal justice system has been at the center of heated and often vitriolic debate. Charges of systemic racism that lead to the very root

Times are a changin'. This post comes out of somewhat of a hiatus induced by a spiritual search for reconnection that has paused a sense of vigor and outwardness in my life. For many years I've been on a conscious 'spiritual' journey through which I&

A Holistic Gen Z-er's response to the Petersonian Conception of Monogamy As someone who was raised just on the cusp of modern technology proliferation of the internet, cell phones and all other attendant apps & gadgets, this has directly impacted my experience of love, relationships and the

The Hero with One Thousand Faces is a fundamental work by Joseph Campbell that elucidates the age-old Monomyth of the ‘Hero’s Journey’. We’ll explore today how this is encapsulated in the 1944 novel by one of England’s greatest literary men, Somerset Maugham. In brief, the novel

One of the oldest stories of depression & suicidal ideation is tucked away in the Old Testament. Though many of us are not well biblically versed nowadays, there is tremendous wisdom in these archaic stories that remains deeply relevant to modern life. I will attempt to give a synopsis of

Don Draper and the American Sacred Void The land of ‘God’s own People’ was founded out of the political foment in the birth of the modern era. American government is created on the philosophy that the rational, small ‘s’ self, Homo Economicus of Adam Smiths conceptualization. Homo Economicus is

Definition of taboo 1a: a prohibition imposed by social custom or as a protective measure… they may have developed a taboo against eating fish.— Jared Diamond b: something that is not acceptable to say, mention, or do : something that is taboo… the tacticians in a conservative Republican Administration now deem

How to Utilize the Big Picture of Charisma in Your Own Life Definition of charisma 1: a personal magic of leadership arousing special popular loyalty or enthusiasm for a public figure (such as a political leader) His success was largely due to his charisma. 2: a special magnetic charm or