Rewriting History: The Intricate Dance of Media Technology and Liberal Ideals *This is a serialized portion of Professional Hazards - Coming soon* INTRODUCTION: This book comes out of sheer personal necessity. As a lover of words, politics, and good government in addition to being born in the year of our

Unraveling the Myth of the Glamorous Writer

How incongruence with our deep evolutionary vectors for thriving creates addiction

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 if I

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 societal

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 traces

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