Outside The Bee Hive
October 02, 2025
going along to get along, mental illness, Otroverts, psychopaths, Rami Kaminski, The Lonely Crowd8 Comments
The fall season marks the election of a new building representative at my retirement complex. I don’t know the woman. She’s new to us. But I’m sure that after she chairs her first meeting, I’ll receive an email with a smiley face from her. “We missed you,” it wil
Continue Reading →How To Avoid Extinction
November 22, 2022
anxiety, being woke, destructive impulses, dinosaurs, group identity, Hannah Gais, intelligent life perils, kindness, marshmallow experiment, mental illness, mental stress globally, nuclear weapons, preserving social order, species extermination, suicide rates among the young, the Great Filter, the primitive human brain
Life is full of danger. I blew up my microwave making oatmeal this week. On a grander scale, our species faces deadly problems: climate change, threats to democracy at home and abroad, and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war. Nine countries collectively possess about 1300 nuclear
Continue Reading →Small Planet For The Criminally Insane
November 22, 2019
gun violence and mental illness, mental illness, Michele Galietia, psychopaths, the line between sanity and insanity is blurred
While in public life, I worked with a district attorney who was a thoughtful man. His politics leaned toward conservatism, but that bias seldom interfered with the way he aligned facts. Objectivity of that degree is rare. For many, emotions rule. Upon occasion, he and I discussed
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