Gullibility and the Triumph of the Con-Artists
Dr. Glenn McLaren Gullibility is a failure of social intelligence in which a person is easily tricked or manipulated into an ill-advised course of action. It is closely related to credulity, which...
Jonathan Franzen, Climate Change and the Need for Imagination
Dr. Glenn McLaren Where climate change is concerned, human imagination is a double-edged-sword. The seemingly controllable technological industrial utopia we imagined and built, has...
Racism and the Scourge of Insecurity
Dr Glenn McLaren Whenever I think of racism I think of insecurity. We all battle with our insecurities. For some of us they are debilitating and prevent us from realizing our potential. For...
Knowing Your Boundaries: A Key to Understanding Our Global Crises
Is there one thing that is common to all of our major global crises; crises as diverse as sexual harassment and assault, mass immigration and globalization, technologies advancing beyond our control and global...
‘The Good Place’: Good Show, Bad Ethics
My daughter and I have been watching a US TV series over the summer called ‘The Good Place’. We enjoy it and find it one of the funniest and cleverest comedies we have seen for some time. What makes it...
From Big Things Little Things Grow
This article is for those who, like me, despair over the performance of our global leaders who seem intent on accelerating us towards self-destruction. I hope to give some guidance as to how we can judge them...
Jordan Peterson, Destroyed
Early in 2018 I was searching YouTube for Stephen Colbert’s latest monologue on the Trump administration and I discovered a lecture on problems with postmodernism and neo-Marxism in universities. Having...
