Tag: Covid 19

• I do desire we may be better strangers

  I have a friend who is wary of talking to strangers. I suppose it is common enough -depending on circumstance and location, it might very well be a prudent thing to feel- and yet it seems to expose a gap in our society. A hole in an awkward area of our clothing we would rather…

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  December 15, 2021

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  anti-social paradox, BBC Future, BBC World Service, commuters, Covid 19, Emily Kasriel, Loneliness, Nick Epley, strangers, TED Talk, Theory of Mind, University of Chicago

• Breathing health into a stone?

  Are my emotions mine? That is, do they live inside me, or are they things that are shared -exist between me and others, in other words? Are they more the combination of genetic predisposition and situational features which are dependent on societal norms that we were taught from our early years at home and in…

  gozzter

  June 16, 2021

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  Bernice L. Hausman, Covid 19, emotions, health, iatrogenesis, Ivan Illich, Medical Nemesis, medical skepticism, medical therapeutics, medicalization, NPR, pandemic, Penn State College of Medicine, primum non nocere., TB

• Bad Samaritans?

  I suspect this is an incredibly naïve, not to mention unpopular, opinion, but I suppose in these times of plague, I should be grateful we have borders -fences that keep them out, walls that keep us safe. But I’m not. I’ve always mistrusted borders: I’ve always been suspicious of boundaries that artificialize the denizens of…

  gozzter

  March 25, 2020

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  borders, boundaries, Charles Crawford, Corona virus, countries, Covid 19, Kahlil Gibran, migrants, Nationalism, nations, pandemic, Peace of Westphalia, refugees, sovereignty, Sykes-Pico agreement, territorial integrity, Thirty Years War, walls, WHO, Xenophobia