I hope everyone had a safe and enjoyable Thanksgiving holiday. To refresh your memory, here’s my “sum the sum” from part 8 of my summary of Hamlet’s Blackberry: Here are four reasons to turn off the TV: heart issues, eating issues, learning issues, and fun issues. One of the first communications technologies centered on the oral […]
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Archive for Mary Eberstadt – Page 3
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November 28, 2012
Summarizing “Hamlet’s BlackBerry: Building a Good Life in the Digital Age” (part 9)
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June 26, 2012
Are You Suffering From the Heartbreak of FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)?
Systems thinkers are trained to look and assess for such things as unintended consequences, side effects, and even “blowback.” I consider myself to be a systems thinker, and I consider our Foundation to be a systems focused foundation. In my first career I was a structural geologist. Geology, along with its close association to evolution […]
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March 13, 2012
COMMENT: Is There An Objectification Double Standard?
In recent months I have heard two anecdotes that share a common theme, a theme that I find shocking and disturbing. The theme runs something like the following: Increasingly mothers are being pressured by the system (which I will define in a moment) to place their children on behavioral drugs—drugs more powerful than cocaine in […]
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April 7, 2011
UPDATE: Is Stevens’s Archetypal System of Sexuality a Form of GBAE?
In earlier posts (see posts from December 21st, 2010, and January 4th, 6th, 12th, and 20th, 2011), I have talked about what I call the Grand Bowlbian Attachment Environment (or GBAE for short). In my earlier posts I have argued that the GBAE holds the behavioral systems of caregiving, attachment, and sex. Bowlby’s ethological studies (e.g., […]
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COMMENT: Technical Versus Adaptive Solutions In The News
By now we have probably seen the picture and heard the story: New York City police officer buys homeless man a pair of boots. It’s a heartwarming image and story. But last night our local (Albuquerque) news reported that the story continues in interesting ways. Apparently the homeless man is again walking around the city […]
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