Category Archives: The People
Can we truly eliminate segregation?
The word “segregation” means the action or state of setting someone or something apart from other people or things. In its most negative application to humans, it means labeling people according to a caste system that ranges from the most … Continue reading
Who’s “we”…?
Whenever a news organization interviews someone about the Big Issues, we invariably hear the person interviewed starting sentences like this: “We should…”, and “We shouldn’t…”, and “What we need to do is…” Then they fill in the blank with a … Continue reading
Language drives our psychology
The state of being conscious has eluded definition, and certainly no one knows how it “emerges” from neurological systems. However, we do know that our consciousness is closely connected to the human mind’s propensity for symbolic representation of our experience, … Continue reading
“It’s like, sort of, you know, like…”
Since the 1980s, I’ve listened to the English language in the United States steadily adopt a habitual inclusion of what I’ll call “filler” words. These are words that convey no meaning and essentially take the place of the equally useless … Continue reading