mental-health – I Dwell In Possibility

The Character of Things

I have always felt torn between the need for something exciting and dangerous, for a sense of greater purpose and momentous importance, and a desire for quiet and insignificance except what I make of events for myself. Walking alone some time in my own primordial past, the phrase “only myself to please” came on meContinue reading “The Character of Things”

The Biological Origins of Our Proportional Cruelty and Rashness in Moral Matters Perceived Through the Lens of Identity #1

Since I am more a poet, not a researcher, I have not done a survey of the studies. But given the facts that our brains, according to all the limited evidence I have inflicted on myself like a workout routine, have evolved to be quick and reactionary, more risk averse than reward attracted for theContinue reading “The Biological Origins of Our Proportional Cruelty and Rashness in Moral Matters Perceived Through the Lens of Identity #1”

Rudiments of How Extreme Reactionaries Have Become So Extreme

Let’s say we are people who feel threatened by difference. For whatever reasons over the course of our lives we have come to feel that a difference of opinion is an assault on who we are. We can flesh out the profile of such persons, that they were raised in an authoritarian household and wereContinue reading “Rudiments of How Extreme Reactionaries Have Become So Extreme”