Over the July 4th weekend I had the opportunity to watch the 2015 movie The Big Short, which stars Christian Bale, Steve Carell, Ryan Gosling, and Brad Pitt (screenplay directed and co-written by Adam McKay). The Big Short is based on the 2011 book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis (a […]
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July 7, 2016
Home and Student Loan Bubbles from Same Soap: Let’s Take a Bite
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May 3, 2016
COMMENT: Brave new era in technology needs new ethics – FT.com
Back in March of 2012 I wrote a post entitled Is There An Objectification Double Standard? In this post I suggested that we as a society tend to condemn athletes who use performance enhancing drugs (i.e., steroids) on the field while at the same time encourage our kids to use performance enhancing drugs (i.e., Ritalin) […]
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Posted by Rick Leonhardt on
March 29, 2016
Reaction to Gabor Maté’s “In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts”
Author’s Note: I completed the final draft of this post before I wrote my 03.17.16 post wherein I recognized the “elephant in the room”: the demise of mourning practices both individual and collective. As a result, I repeat information here that also appears in my earlier post. I left the repeated information here so that […]
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March 17, 2016
Light the Funeral Pyre for Mourning: Hijacking Bowlbian Attachment Theory
As promised in my February 3rd, 2016, blog post, I just finished reading In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Encounters with Addiction (2008) by Canadian MD Gabor Maté. I read Hungry Ghosts because on the surface it appeared to track the information presented in the 2014 edited volume entitled Addictions from an Attachment Perspective—Do Broken […]
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Where Da UK Macy Conferences?—A Brief Look at “Traditions of Systems Theory”
I just finished reading the edited volume entitled Traditions of Systems Theory—Major Figures and Contemporary Developments, edited by Darrell Arnold (2014). I’ll call this book Traditions for short. In its seventeen chapters, Traditions talks about system(s) thinking and theory past, present, and future. [1] This book is clearly aimed at scholars as evidenced by its […]
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