How Introverts Can Save the World
| April 30, 2012 | Posted by Cory Mitchell under Psychology, Relationships, Society |
How Introverts Can Save the World By Jenny Short There’s been a lot of talk about introverts lately. Much of this has been spurred on by the release of two books: ‘The Introvert Advantage’ by Marty Olsen Lany, and Susan Cain’s ‘Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking’, a kind…
The Coming Collapse of a Modern Prohibition – Recreational Drugs
| March 31, 2012 | Business, Global, Society |
The Coming Collapse of a Modern Prohibition By Euan Wilson, originally published in the July 2009 Socionomist | Download the Complete Issue (748 KB) History shows that mood governs society’s tolerance for recreational drugs. A rising social mood produces prohibition of substances such as alcohol and marijuana; a falling mood produces tolerance and relaxed regulation. In the case…
A Socionomic View of Epidemic Diseases – Epidemics, Markets and a Model Crisis
| March 11, 2012 | Business, Global, Health, Psychology, Society |
A Socionomic View of Epidemic Disease Part I: Epidemics, Markets and a Model Crisis It’s widely believed that epidemics make people fearful, but as you will see in this report, socionomic causality better explains the data, which show that fearful people are more susceptible to epidemics. Socionomics posits that the trends in social mood-widely-shared feelings including those…
Authoritarianism Study: A Society’s View of Normal is Always Changing (Part 1)
| March 8, 2012 | Business, Health, Society |
Authoritarianism Study: Part One – A Society’s View of Normal is Always Changing By Alan Hall, originally published in the April 2010 Socionomist | Download the Complete Study (1.09 MB) The Wave Principle Governs Fear and The Social Desire to Submit Mention authoritarianism and most people imagine its ultimate incarnation-a dictator wielding top-down control. The socionomic…
My Favorite Things from 2011
| January 2, 2012 | Business, Health, Humor, Psychology, Relationships, Society |
With 2011 concluded I look back and have picked some of my favorite things from this past year. It was a great year, despite a lot of economic upheaval and political unrest. There will always be issues facing our society and circumstances which we must grit our teeth through in our personal lives. It is…
How You’re Pitched…and by default how to manipulate others
| December 21, 2011 | Posted by Cory Mitchell under Business, Psychology, Society |
How You’re “Pitched”…and by default how to manipulate others By Cory Mitchell It happens to all of us; at some point we are lead down a path we know we don’t want to be on, but suddenly find ourselves saying “Yes.” It can happen so shadily that we do not really grasp what is happening…
Literally, “literally” is the most overused word on the planet
| December 11, 2011 | Posted by Cory Mitchell under Humor |
In the spirit of exaggeration, “literally” has become the bane of my existence. As one of the most ill-handled and overused words in western society, I have no choice but to use many words in an attempt to be rid of this one. The word has a plethora of linguistically-challenged abusers and I visualize duct tape being slapped over…
Does our failing use of descriptive language affect our mood, attitudes and relationships?
| November 11, 2011 | Posted by Cory Mitchell under Relationships, Society |
Does our failing use of descriptive language affect our mood, attitudes and relationships? By Cory Mitchell At what point did we begin to fail the descriptive language that we claim to still use? Most of us will be hard pressed to remember a conversation which did not include the adolescent “like, ummm…” multiple times, or…
Solutions Occupy Wall Street Should Push For
| November 10, 2011 | Posted by Cory Mitchell under Business |
Solutions Occupy Wall Street Should Push For By Cory Mitchell, CMT In part one of this of article, Arguments in Favour of Occupy Wall Street, several problems are addressed. These issues are here, and at some point, must be confronted. Kicking the can down our children’s throat is no longer an alternative. As the ancient…
Arguments In Favour of Occupy Wall Street
| November 10, 2011 | Posted by Cory Mitchell under Business |
Arguments In Favour of Occupy Wall Street By Cory Mitchell, CMT The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement is gaining momentum (or at minimum it seems protesters are not going anywhere quite yet) throughout the US and globally, likely helped by police brutality, attempted stifling by authorities of constitutional rights and outrage over how the “banks” have negatively…
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