politics

  • The Cybernetics of Release

    Emotional Labor is the work of building, maintaining, and releasing relationships. Relationships can be built, maintained, and released randomly, but we have evolved cultural processes to facilitate these things to minimize mistakes and misdirection, confusion and chaos, and pain and… Continue reading

  • 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

  • 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

  • What Drives People

    Generally speaking,.. there are three types of people; Lifestyle Driven, Reward Driven, and Goal Driven. ~ Lifestyle Driven people simply want to live a certain way, and they will go to great lengths to achieve and maintain that lifestyle. (The… Continue reading