Social media in general, and Instagram particularly, has a reputation for making its users feel rubbish about themselves. Instagram is the worst platform for mental health, and social media is fuelling a mental health crisis. The more you click your way through Instagram, Facebook and so on, the greater your dissatisfaction with your own appearance becomes. You can hardly escape the ...

We have an intimate relationship with our phones. We sleep with them, eat with them and carry them in our pockets. We check them, on average, 47 times a day and 82 times if you are between 18 and 24 years old. We love them for good reason: They tell the weather and the time of ...

If Earth’s history is compared to a calendar year, modern Human life has existed for 23 minutes and we have used one third of Earth’s natural resources in the last 0.2 seconds. The environmental footprint is a measure of Human demand on the Earth's ecosystems. It says something about how many planet Earth's we need to ...

You often want more than you have now. More money, more gadgets, better furniture, a better house, a better car, more clothes, more shoes, more success. You are not satisfied, because there are new ads for new iPods, for new laptops, for new iPhones, for new cars, for new clothes. You have to have those. It is impossible ...

Male chicken are worthless to the egg industry, so every year, millions of them are suffocated or thrown into high-speed grinders, called macerators, while they are still alive. Industrial meat chicken farming is one of the biggest causes of animal suffering globally. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExP3VGSPzrU Yet most people have no idea about the suffering these intelligent, sensitive animals endure. The welfare ...

The World is full of terribly self-centred people, and I am afraid you are probably among them. Emotions such as Love, loyalty, and outrage, like a sense of fairness, have little or no place in most of today’s utility functions; a narrow selfishness is pervasive. Most of us claim to feel solidarity towards the thousands of refugees ...

I met a lot of people with great dreams, dreams to own their own home without a mortgage, dreams to start their own business, to be free from an existing job they are not satisfied with, dreams to simply travel the World or be free to sit under a tree and play a guitar. Most people ...

We look to George Orwell as a kind of prophet of the ills of corporatism, socialism, authoritarianism, totalitarianism - any powerful -ism, essentially, in which we can find nasty, freedom-destroying implications. George Orwell makes his point by highlighting his 'warning' to what he saw as a fast corporatizing / socializing / authoriatarianizing / totalitarianizing World and ...

What civilization is is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy by standing on each other’s shoulders and kicking each other’s teeth in. It’s not a pleasant situation.And yet you can stand back and look at this planet and see that we have the money, the power, the medical understanding, the scientific know-how, the ...

Our unhappy, addicted, ego-driven condition has become not simply the source of our own unhappiness - that was bad enough, but now it's the source of great discomfort and dislocation for all life and Human Society on the planet.We are out of control. We are basically severely addicted to things and can not stop ourselves.And we ...