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Left vs Right-Wing Political Views & Psychology

What are associated with politically left and right wing views? Including conservative and liberal views and how to know if things tilt too much in one direction? Also, adding a psychological and philosophical dimension to this subject. Left Wing The left wing tends to be for open borders, social justice, supports minority groups, equality, freedom,…

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How People are Different? – Personality & Psychology

Most people have no clue just how much we can differ from each other. The ignorance and arrogance of this subject is somewhat disturbing, and a little scary. People love to judge others. However, most of the time, these judgments are very basic and shallow. They have very little understanding of anything that they are…

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Demonization & Intolerance of Certain Political Views

There is something very worrying going on in modern western societies. There is a demonization and intolerance of those who have moderate and perfectly acceptable, however, differing political views. Persecution for your Group Identify We all have various different identities. We have an individual identity, plus we belong to various group identities. Example, group identities;…

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How Are Opinions Formed? Good & Bad Opinions

Opinions, everybody has them, and some are better than others. In this article I dig into how those opinions are formed, and why so many opinions are wrong. Objective Truth, Facts & Opinions The facts and opinion hierarchy is very important to the formation of opinion. Are the facts at the bottom, or the opinion?…

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Seeing the World in More Detail – Simplicity or Complexity?

Most people want to simplify things down to a basic and perhaps more actionable cause or reason. Is it better to simplify things, or to look for the complexity of the situation, person, or event?    I personally believe that one of the major problems and causes of issues and conflicts is seeing things without…

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Progress the human species with psychology & knowledge

This article is mostly about using psychology and philosophy to improve and evolve the human species, genuinely being progressive. As-well as psychology it also includes other forms of knowledge and understandings. The types of societal improvements I’m talking about are, reducing conflicts, prejudices and divisions between groups of people in-order to actually progress humanity. Learning…

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The Psychology of People during a Pandemic

How does a pandemic like the current Coronavirus (COVID-19) affect people’s psychology, general attitudes and motivations? When difficult times arise you often get to see people’s true nature, both the good, and the bad. We all have survival instincts including fight or flight responses, these instincts kick in to overdrive when such an event like…

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Socrates Philosophy on Achieving Happiness

Socrates is one of the greatest and most well known of the Greek philosophers, along with Plato and Aristotle. This article looks into some of Socrates ideas on achieving happiness, and also on why people perform evil acts. I also add my own interpretations and thoughts into this article. Socrates believed that most people who…

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Comfort, Contentment & Happiness Breeds Mediocrity?

Almost everyone seems to be searching for comfort, contentment and happiness in their lives, but when achieved, does it breed mediocrity, or perhaps something worse? Many people would of heard the quote “Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters”. I can say from personal experience that when I have been the most content in life,…