Introduction In this blog series I would like to comb through the pages of Elkhonon Goldberg’s book The Wisdom Paradox looking for bridges or connections between Bowlby’s theory of attachment with its focus on ethology and animal studies, and modern attachment theory with its focus on interpersonal or social neurobiology. Why on earth would I […]

At the end of my last post I mentioned that I would create an appendix consisting of a set of notes I took during one of my several reads through the book Changing Visions. I didn’t date my notes but I imagine they are from the 2000s somewhere. Here are those notes in edited form […]

In my last blog series I asked whether the social turmoil that now surrounds us could simply be framed as Capitalism vs Socialism. In this post I would like to look at Capitalism vs Socialism from a slightly different perspective by using the lens of what cognitive scientists call cultural cognitive maps. Sure, we often […]

Welcome to Part 2 where we will look at Capitalism vs Socialism proper. For reference, here are the books I read to get me up to speed on what Dinesh D’Souza calls the “New Civil Cold War”: The Hidden History of the The American Dream by Thom Hartmann The Hidden History of Democracy by Thom Hartman […]

The culture wars can be framed using various dichotomies: Capitalism vs Socialism Strict Father vs Nurturant Parent Left Brain vs Right Brain Middle Brain vs Upper Brain Conservatives vs Liberals MAGA vs DEI Old Testament vs New Testament I’m sure there are other such dichotomies out there, but I think you get the picture. Regardless […]