As I wrote in “Après Earth (Day). What does “colonizing” Mars have to do with Earth Day?” consumerism became a replacement for mental health services. To explain this…… Read more “Would you like a lobotomy or would you prefer to be a consumer?”
Tag: psychology
Artistic people are great at creative problem-solving!
Photo and quote by Tamara KulishAvailable on Fine Art America Years ago I was told that I couldn’t be hired for certain jobs because I was an…… Read more “Artistic people are great at creative problem-solving!”
Freeing the Prisoner in our Mind
I read a very thought provoking article on Flavorwire.com, which reviews the film based on the Stanford Prison Experiment, where a psychology professor set up a prison environment in the basement of the Psychology Department and where students were randomly assigned the roles of “prisoner” or “guard”.
The author of the article, Moze Halpern, chose to make comparisons between the film and what happens in society where we have roles either assigned to us or where we chose them.