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The Violence of Separation in The Independent Mindset
Of all the harmful consequences of the Independent Mindset’s assumption of independent existence...
The Role of Elders in Shifting to the Hopeful Mindset
In 1997, a historian named Neil Howe and his co-author William Strauss published a book called The...
The Toxicity of Cultural Conditioning
Culture is the milieu in which we live and breathe. As water is to fish it is the all but...
The Trauma of Appearant Separation
In Philip Pullman’s Dark Materials series every human has an animal daemon. The humans and their...
Schopenhauer’s Error: The Independent Mindset
German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer claimed that human suffering was due to desire and that...
Bad Bunny, Kid Rock, and the Super Bowl Halftime Show: Interdependent Mindset vs Independent Mindset
Today a battle in the war for the hearts and minds of Americans will be waged during the Super...
How Our Interdependent Nature Prevents Us From Just Letting Go
The world we typically see is a world of mostly unexamined, needs-based personal imperatives...
The Dangerous Baloney of the Independent Mindset
The previous article published here talked about the ubiquity of baloney in our culture due to the...
Detecting the Baloney of The Independent Mindset
As discussed in The Hopeful Mindset the independent mindset is based on an erroneous assumption...
Is Capitalism Driving Or Accommodating Our Desires
I have often pointed to capitalism as a product of the values inherent in the independent mindset....
Interdependent Values: A Prescription For What Ails Us
Values of the Interdependent Worldview It is now recognized across multiple scientific fields that...
Can Science Tell Us How We Should Live?
Since the death of God was announced by Friedrich Nietzsche in 1882 people have been arguing about...











