Even though we believe we’re interested in happiness, many of us go in for a particular kind of destructive behaviour: …
Tag: thought
Art and Masturbation
Art has enormous prestige in our society; masturbation certainly doesn’t. And yet there are some fascinating correspondences between the creativity …
HISTORY OF IDEAS – Failure
People have failed throughout history but the way the failure has been interpreted has changed throughout the ages in fascinating …
Why We Look down on Low Wage Earners
Earning little money is a sure route to being neglected and patronised in modern societies. But why is this, and …
If Philosophers Read the News
Plato said that the world wouldn’t be right until philosophers were kings and kings philosophers. We’d add to this that …
The Craziness of the Daily News
News organisations claim to be informing us with their bulletins. In fact, more and often than not, they are driving …
Transference
Transference is a very useful word from psychoanalysis which describes the process whereby we react to situations in the present …
Why God Wants You To Have Sex Every Friday
According to sacred ancient Hebrew texts, it’s a couple’s duty under God to have sex every Friday night. That’s an …