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Everyone is Waiting For You to Make a Mistake: Neoliberalism and Socially Prescribed Perfectionism

February 9, 2018 culture, Current Events, Economics, Philosophy, Politics, Psychology

“Self-oriented perfectionism is the tendency to hold oneself to an unrealistically high standard, while other-oriented perfectionism means having unrealistic expectations of others. But “socially prescribed perfectionism is the most debilitating of the three dimensions of perfectionism,” Curran and Hall contend. It describes the feeling of paranoia and anxiety engendered by the persistent — and not…

Everybody is Their Own Galaxy

February 1, 2018 Art, Christianity, Current Events, Philosophy, Poetry, Theory

“All tribes unite at the Godhead and then walk away with their differing tribal missions: that is the aim of the 21st century, to achieve that realization and walk from the whole toward infinite fracturing into communities that reflect what its members actually believe. It is the only way to purge ourselves of guilt and…

Philosophy of Orgasm: Whitehead and Eros as the Desire for Fulfillment

January 26, 2018 humanities, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Theology, Theory

“In Adventures of Ideas, which I found to be the most accessible read of Whitehead’s works, he discusses in more detail his thoughts of eros and its relationship to God. Eros is the power in the universe urging toward the realization of ideals, and as such it plays a major role in his later work….

Anyone Can Get Rich in America: The Polka King, Capitalism, and the American Dream

January 22, 2018 Economics, humanities, Philosophy, Theory, Thoughts

I watched a really funny movie on Netflix over the weekend called The Polka King. (**SPOILERS AHEAD!!**) Beside the fact that the movie takes place in the town where I went to high school (Hazleton, Pennsylvania) and the fact that it has lots of polka music (which I fondly remember my grandmother listening to…

My Dreams Do Not Belong Only to Myself

January 12, 2018 Art, Ecology, Philosophy, Psychology, Theory

“To put this into the context of a life narrative, my dreams do not belong only to myself but to all of the people and non-human things and processes with which I share this earth. The earth flows through me, and my vision of the world, in turn, reverberates back out into my surroundings. Strictly…

At least some form of continuity between mind and nature…

January 10, 2018 Current Events, Ecology, humanities, Philosophy, Science, Theology, Theory

“A central feature of any naturalism is that there is at least some form of continuity between mind and nature – or, that mind “stretches” to meet nature (in the words of John Dewey). But, what is “mind” within a naturalistic register? A basic premise for naturalists such as Charles S. Peirce, John Dewey, George…

The Organic Restlessness of The Whole Body of Creation: Process Theology and Ontotheology

January 5, 2018 Christianity, Philosophy, Theology, Thoughts

I may certainly be misunderstanding the concept (or understanding it incompletely) but for me, as a process-relational thinker, the pejorative ontotheological criticism/dismissal has never bothered me much in the first place, and as a panpsychically-oriented, panentheistic religious naturalist I again don’t care. A) in the process-relational conception of things the “ontic” category isn’t really meaningful,…

Yes you’re human too, that’s why more is expected of you.

January 5, 2018 Art, Christianity, culture, Current Events, Politics, Theology, Theory

“The notion that political enemies are human, too, sharing our common human hopes and fears, triumphs and vulnerabilities, is often deployed in a way to downplay political division and enmity. In reality, though, the fact that our enemies are human, too, is what makes them morally accountable. If they were inhuman monsters who thrived on…

Quiet the Noise (Original Poem)

December 29, 2017 Art, Poetry, Thoughts

quiet the noise we had a life with with pens on the counter and crumbs on the floor a junk drawer and our refrigerator with magnets holding up our principals there is the nick in the table, the wobbly leg fixed again, and the stain on the rail some marks provide definition and spirit others,…

The Searching (A Short Story)

December 14, 2017 Art, humanities, Literature, Poetry

What if you slept And what if In your sleep You dreamed And what if In your dream You went to heaven And there plucked a strange and beautiful flower And what if When you awoke You had that flower in your hand Ah, what then? ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge Long ago, there lived far to…