Archive for the ‘ Psychology ’ Category

Hate All, Kill All

For me, the pieces of the puzzle are falling into place; the puzzle being an understanding of how the world works. The picture they are forming may not make much sense to anyone else; and may even seem insane. One major piece of the puzzle is Hatred, which is sometimes so strong in my life [ READ MORE ]

Prototyping

Computer Human Interaction video (select lecture 1.2) This is a software development concept that has much wider applicability. Any new social endeavor (such as software) should be tried out first, and experimented with (or prototyped), before any serious implementations are attempted. I wish I could tell you that software developers have used this process successfully. But [ READ MORE ]

Something Too Horrible for Words

There is always something we dread more than anything else, something so horrible we don’t have the words to express it – but it is always in the back of our minds, and determines much of our behavior. There are two ways of dealing with this problem, or any other problem: recognize it or deny it. Any [ READ MORE ]

Snakes in Suits

I just got this book and it is a good one. I have know a few of these snakes – or psychopaths in the various companies I worked for in high-tech California – where all the crazies (including me) seemed to end up. From the Preface: — The “organization wars” began in the early 1970s [ READ MORE ]

We Have Put Too Much of Ourselves Into Our Machines

As result, there is little of us left. This is something thinkers of all kinds have overlooked. Perhaps because they thought of technology and people as two different things – when they are only one. Perhaps because technical change was so slow for so long. But about 500 years ago a technological and social speedup resulted [ READ MORE ]

The Negative State of Being

This is another posting no one is going to understand. I can just barely understand it myself. The theory is simple enough: there are positive and negative states of being. Most people probably have a feel for what those are. Unfortunately, this feeling is misleading because it is too superficial. First of all, being for [ READ MORE ]

How Can Computers Help People be People?

I have given a lot of thought to this question. First all, when I mean computers I mean the combination of the computers with their software, networked on the Internet, and also in the wireless. The question in broader terms, is: how can technology help us be human? But this question immediately turns into How do [ READ MORE ]

Something is Missing in Our Lives

American Institute for Cancer Research This my second posting today about obesity. As usual, I have my own ideas on the subject. I am convinced that people feel there is something important missing in their lives – but they have no idea what it is. Therefore, they eat – like everyone else. They have two [ READ MORE ]

Ethnic Cleansing

Yahoo News - Mladic taunts survivors at start of genocide trial As this article notes, Mladic is still a hero to Serb Nationalists. This reminds me of my conservative brother, for whom Bush was a hero. He personally displayed large signs at a main highway intersection in Flagstaff, Arizona urging the Iraq War. This war, as [ READ MORE ]

Mass Man

This was noticed and commented on by Ortega y Gasset back in the early Thirties. I assumed, as he did, that these people were a product of the Industrial Revolution – that provided employment for huge numbers of people, while at the same time stunting their development. Mass production producing mass people. Then I started studying American [ READ MORE ]

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