Craig Maciolek

  • The strongest, most impenetrable prison humans can ever build for themselves is the thought that the future needs to be perfect before we get there. Continue reading

  • Plato’s Sorrow

    In my mind, when all is quiet around me, I can imagine a perfect society. This image is in a place I call The Good. The image is so clear and bright. I can even see myself and how I… Continue reading

  • Balancing The Group Mind

    According to this Freudian model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the… Continue reading

  • It’s Emotional, Stupid.

    The expression of emotion is how people navigate through the social environment. When we express our emotions, we give others the opportunity to see if their emotions are in alignment with our own. From the emotional expressions of others, we… Continue reading

  • Love & Connection

    Love is an emotion. Emotions are a form internal communication that helps to guide us through our environment. Connection is a physical reality. We can love people we are not connected to, but it takes time and disciplined to build… Continue reading

  • Culture

    Culture: the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. — From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. A society’s culture can either be a tool… Continue reading