Quite often people walk around with this dysfunctional idea that there’s a black and white, right and wrong for everything. When things aren’t exactly so, they say things “ought to” be another way. By strange coincidence, the way things “ought to be” happens to be something that ...
On the one hand, you can surrender to the dysfunctional machine that is social media, or let it absorb even more of our institutions. On the other, you can reject it, and throw away any hope of standing up to Big Tech. It’s no surprise, as Pepi...
Rather, some take an essentialist view that there is something natural or “biological” (Macfarlene 1987, 142) about love—it flourishes between people in a functional society but is repressed in a dysfunctional one. More modern sociologists, however, argue that love is sustained, enacted, ...
The second mistake is now history. Our focus is on the present analysis of the issue at hand and its future outcome and not the used-by dated past. We have replaced the dysfunctional with the functional. The First Mistake Perhaps now we can see our mistakes as a starting point rather t...
shame is a repressed emotion in contemporary society. Thus we are often ashamed about feeling shame. If an offender is ashamed about committing a crime he will feel worse because of the shame about feeling ashamed. This can lead to further aggression, violence and general dysfunctional behaviour....
our self-identity. In other words, a person suffering from toxic shame will experience a chronic sense of worthlessness, low self-esteem, andself-loathing– all connected to the belief that they are innately “shameful” or “bad.”Toxic shame is theinternalizedandburiedshame that rots within ...
we inferred that belief from neglect, violation of our boundaries, or dismissal of our feelings, wants, and needs. This can happen even when parents say they love us. Being codependent themselves, shame and dysfunctional parenting get passed down unconsciously. Bad parenting can also be the resul...
The Internet Of Things is comong, science and technology geeks tell us. These dysfunctional misfits wose only griends are machines long for the day when we finally surrender our humanity and freedom and become slaves to the machine. but how realistic are their claims, is it mostly just hype...
of discomfort; real intimacy requires vulnerability which can bring up fears; dysfunctional relationships create a distraction [the emotional chaos can override the need to analyse] and OCD preys on what we care about the most so the more meaningful a relationship is, the greater the stakes feel...
“Our healthcare system is dysfunctional. How do we fix it? Well, it's kind of a boring discussion, but we need a health care system that guarantees health care to all people." Sanders joins Democratic and Republican lawmakers who have called for cooling down harsh rhetoric in the w...