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Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life

·Jun 14

Performing For Others Online Is Not the Same As Connecting With Others

We’ve grown into a society that spends lots of time performing. Here’s why that’s a problem. — A recent, excellent article from The Atlantic pointed out: In their early incarnations, platforms such as Myspace and Facebook were relatively harmless. They allowed users to create pages on which to post photos, family updates, and links to the mostly static pages of their friends and favorite bands. In this…

Technology

7 min read

Performing For Others Online Is Not the Same As Connecting With Others
Performing For Others Online Is Not the Same As Connecting With Others

Published in An Injustice!

·Jun 8

A Few Questions For Those Who Support Making Abortion Illegal

Because you care a lot about human life, yes? — To everyone in our culture who wants to outlaw abortion, Why do you think it’s a good thing to force all women to always have to give birth from now on? Is this a humane, caring thing? To the people who claim abortion is murder, what about if giving birth…

Women

5 min read

A Few Questions For Those Who Support Making Abortion Illegal
A Few Questions For Those Who Support Making Abortion Illegal

May 20

Torn About the Defense of Sarafina Nance’s Swimsuit Shoot

While there’s much inspiration to be found in her, there’s still something objectifying about this… — This is a tough one, with a lot of nuances. Something that almost all situations contain (nuance), which our culture seems to have forgotten as of late. Instead, we think everything is black or white, good OR bad, right OR wrong. It can never be a mixture of both. I’m…

Women

5 min read

Torn About the Defense of Sarafina Nance’s Swimsuit Shoot
Torn About the Defense of Sarafina Nance’s Swimsuit Shoot

May 16

Here’s Why Banning Abortion is the Opposite of Pro-Life

People against abortion will tell you it’s because they’re pro-life. Here’s how that isn’t true. — If banning abortion were about being pro-life, then people would see the obvious oxymoron and contradiction this creates. Making abortion inaccessible ultimately creates more death than there was prior Removing access to abortion for women will not stop them from happening, just like making drugs illegal doesn’t stop people from using them.

Society

5 min read

Here’s Why Banning Abortion is the Opposite of Pro-Life
Here’s Why Banning Abortion is the Opposite of Pro-Life

Published in An Injustice!

·May 12

10 Signs of the Fascism and Totalitarianism Coming America’s Way

Watch out, folks. These are some of the major signs and we’re experiencing them. — “One of the central problems American society has faced throughout history is its desire for intellectual and spiritual comfort, the avoidance of pain at almost any cost.” “The constant need for entertainment, the contempt for history, for thought, for reflection, the political and cultural polarization, and the replacement of imagination…

Society

8 min read

10 Signs of the Fascism and Totalitarianism Coming America’s Way
10 Signs of the Fascism and Totalitarianism Coming America’s Way

Published in Change Your Mind Change Your Life

·Apr 24

7 Ways Cell Phone Noise Messes With Our Minds

#2- It Makes Us More Hostile — Today, getting onto the bus that I must ride three mornings a week to get to work, I was met with some clown across the way watching videos set to high volume on their phone in the otherwise quiet bus. No headphones and the device wasn’t even at a low…

Health

9 min read

7 Ways Cell Phone Noise Messes With Our Minds
7 Ways Cell Phone Noise Messes With Our Minds

Apr 19

It’s Not About Writing the Perfect Article or Story. It’s About Getting It Out There!

This often misguided value can undermine the whole point of your work. — We’ve all heard about the authors and artists who labor over a book or painting or sculpture or poem for years, even decades. Then sometimes, when the piece of art is finally released to the world, it’s a smash hit, its power reverberating throughout culture and society. This can and…

Self

5 min read

It’s Not About Writing the Perfect Article or Story. It’s About Getting It Out There!
It’s Not About Writing the Perfect Article or Story. It’s About Getting It Out There!

Apr 15

You Probably Don’t Need Pills for Depression

Anxiety and depression keep rising in America. We take lots of medication for it. So why are these numbers still skyrocketing? — A few statistics from Mental Health America.org Suicidal ideation continues to increase among adults in the U.S. 4.58% of adults report having serious thoughts of suicide, an increase of 664,000 people from last year’s dataset. The national rate of suicidal ideation among adults has increased every year since 2011–2012.

Health

16 min read

You Probably Don’t Need Pills for Depression
You Probably Don’t Need Pills for Depression

Published in An Injustice!

·Apr 6

American Work Culture Sucks You In If You Aren’t Careful, Says My European Friend

6 insights on how American work culture is a vortex, unlike European work culture, and what we might do about it — At work, I ran into a friend of mine in the hallway recently. We haven't talked much in the last several months. He’s been excessively busy with working during the day, taking an hour or so break for dinner, and then studying for a medical exam well into the night…

Society

11 min read

American Work Culture Sucks You In If You Aren’t Careful, Says My European Friend
American Work Culture Sucks You In If You Aren’t Careful, Says My European Friend

Apr 6

The Increase in Attempts to Ban Books is a Sign of Danger

Here are several reasons why this indicates danger in a society — Attempts to ban books in the United States surged in 2021 to the highest level in two decades, according to the American Library Association. According to the American Library Association data, the biggest reasons for banned books are racial issues, damaging lifestyles (“damaging” seems a relative term since a damaging…

Literature

14 min read

The Increase in Attempts to Ban Books is a Sign of Danger
The Increase in Attempts to Ban Books is a Sign of Danger
Brooke Meredith

Brooke Meredith

Ravenous reader. Social scientist. Foodie. Novelist. Adventurer. Romantic and idealist. www.sweetrawfree.com www.travelsandtrdelnik.com www.brunchesandbooks.com

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