The Rocky road to success. Photo by Rex/Shutterstock Work hard, become successful, then you’ll be happy. At least, that’s what many of us were taught by our parents, teachers and peers. The idea that we must pursue success in order to experience happiness is enshrined in the United States’ most treasured institutions (the Declaration of Independence), beliefs (the […]
The Stages of Change Needed to Move Canadians’ Values so that we can Achieve Net Zero Carbon Society
Gordon Kubanek, CACOR Board of Directors, writes on “If we Know Climate Change is a Threat Why aren’t we Doing Anything About It?” Mental Health is the ongoing process of dedication to reality at all costs Scott Peck, Psychiatrist Preface Mysterious pink pony found in Montreal: constantly asks bystanders what the French words for “party”, “cupcake”, […]
Confusion and ambiguity
A mix of stimuli always surrounds people. The stimuli have no meaning apart from what the individuals make of it. In other words, the environment is a product of the persons, not something outside of them. If people want to create shared meaning, they need to talk about their experience in close proximity to its […]
Forget the Anthropocene: we’ve entered the synthetic age
An Anthropocene epoch requires one kind of psychological adjustment. A synthetic age demands something considerably more. One fact about our time is becoming increasingly well-known. No matter how far you travel, no matter in which direction you point, there is nowhere on Earth that remains free from the traces of human activity. The chemical and […]
The Underpopulation Bomb
larger families are not happening anywhere where the population has become urban, and urbanity is now the majority mode of the population and becoming moreso. Every developed country on the planet is experiencing falling birth rates. Singapore (with the lowest fertility rate in the world) will pay couples $5,000 for a first child and up […]