Maciolekism

psychology

  • A Disturbing Documentary

    Just as the children of addicts will adapt to enable their parents’ behavior, just as the children of psychopaths are conditioned to support their parents’ dysfunction, entire nations and cultures can evolve to produce, enable, and support addicts and psychopaths. Continue reading

  • On Grooming

    Raising children has always required grooming. Boys must be groomed into men, girls groomed into women, and little monsters groomed into civilized adults. And, there has always been outside influence. Joe Camel groomed children to smoke cigarettes. The PGA grooms… Continue reading

  • Building Trust In Our Own Intelligence

    The best way to prepare for hard times is to practice being present in the moment, reading the environment and being open to all options, and making choices with confidence despite not knowing the outcome in advance. This builds trust… Continue reading

  • One Slap In A World Of Violence

    Two early birds see the same fat Earthworm stretched out in the cool dew of the early morning grass. Life is a game, and our obsession with sports gives people the wrong impression as to the fundamental nature of this… Continue reading

  • If I Only Knew The Words Back Then

    Some time ago, before all this modern weirdness, a person in my life who was normally an aggressive and abusive jerk, always looking to weasel people into doing things for them, came at me insisting that they were nice and… Continue reading

  • A society that raises their children solely with positive reinforcement conditions them to overvalue praise and approval. Continue reading