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COMMENT: Health Care, Tuition & Housing: Have You Become A Bubble Pawn?

About a year ago I watched the 2015 movie The Big Short starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell, and Ryan Gosling. It’s a movie about the days leading up to the housing crash of 2008. It’s about the burst of the housing bubble. It’s about how the housing bubble got set up in the first place. […]

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Rifkin’s Economic Fight of the Century—Capitalism vs “Commons”-ism—Called Because of Extreme Weather and No Electricity (part II)

Welcome to part II. In this final post of this series, I’d like to add a couple of additional important footnotes to the “annual report” for the Collaborative Commons that economist and educator Jeremy Rifkin presents in his 2014 book entitled The Zero Marginal Cost Society—The Internet of Things, The Collaborative Commons, and The Eclipse […]

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Disgust: How Social Emotions Become Social (If They Actually Do)

In my last post I talked about the political, sociological, and economic implications that I recognized as I read neuroscientist Louis Cozolino’s book entitled The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (Second Edition) (2006, 2014). In this post I’d like to focus in on some technical information from Cozolino’s book that, […]

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“This Changes Everything—Capitalism vs The Climate”—What I Learned

Author’s note: I am simulposting this post both at LinkedIn Pulse and at Bowlby Less Traveled. I recently finished reading Naomi Klein’s 2014 book entitled This Changes Everything—Capitalism vs The Climate. I received a copy of Klein’s book from a friend who knew that I had previously enjoyed reading Klein’s 2007 book entitled The Shock […]

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COMMENT: Being “Forced to Care” About Social Constructivism

In my blog post early this month entitled Is “Machine” the New White? I mentioned a 2010 book by Evelyn Nakano Glenn entitled Forced to Care: Coercion and Caregiving in America. I also mentioned that I would probably have more to say about Forced to Care in a later blog post. Well, that time is […]

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