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…

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…

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.

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…

#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…

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…

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.

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…

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…