Porn is linked to a host of social ills including depression, addiction, deviance, violence and human trafficking. And if it is true that so many people today affirm porn and use it regularly, then our culture is facing a crisis. Like so many other vices, people turn to pornography to relax and relieve stress. But research links porn ...

Climate change affects everybody. It does not care if you are black or white, rich or poor, male or female. Climate change affects everybody, and the notion that we can ignore it is just foolish. We are talking about the fate of the whole planet. There are five countries that disproportionately hold the fate of life ...

You have not been on holiday if you did not post a picture every 30 seconds online. You have not been to a concert if you do not start a Facebook live event. You have not been to a restaurant if you have not checked into it. Peace. Peace is beautiful. Chilling under the sun in Ibiza. ...

We automatically lie, we lie without being able to tell that we are lying. We both lie and become the lie, all in the one go. Whenever you say what something is, then straightaway you lie. Truth is elusive, it can not be pointed at or nailed down in any kind. It can only be alluded to, indirectly referred to, ...

Airbnb has become the largest hotel chain in the World, Uber expanded against large protests from the taxi industry and the Lending Club got listed on Wall Street. The sharing economy will generate revenues up to $335 billion by 2025, and Uber alone is valued at $ 41 billion. The millennial generation has expressed a lack of trust in incumbents and is ...

Martial law is an act designed to control the Society as war is being fought in actual or theoretical war zones. It can also be used as a measure for civil unrest, nationwide emergencies or when chaos ensues throughout the country. Martial law is the last counter-measure against a force that the government authorities have failed ...

We are so insignificant that you can not believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. This belief derives from a worldview that presupposes such insignificance, with even the further implication, that humanity is the meaningless product of evolutionary processes. It took intelligent life roughly 4 billion years to develop on Earth. We do not know the range ...

Research in psychology, anthropology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology points to the same conclusion: Human beings are spectacularly unusual when compared to other animals. We possess an unparalleled sensitivity to the needs of others, a unique level of concern about their welfare, and a peerless ability to create moral norms that generalise and enforce these tendencies. We are also the ...

Most people are consumers rather than producers of conspiracy theories. They do not come up with their own conspiracy theories but endorse those that are already in circulation and the public endorsement of the most popular conspiracy theories is growing. When it comes to shaping the online conversation around climate change, deniers and conspiracy theorists hold an ...

Capitalism has generated massive wealth for some, but it has devastated the planet and has failed to improve Human well-being at scale. Capitalism has failed people and the planet through overproduction, over-consumption, waste, greed, and inequality. Corporations are responding to consumer demand and pressure from Wall Street. Corporations are able to continue engaging in increasingly environmentally exploitative behaviour ...

When you wake up in the morning and turn over to your phone to see the list of notifications - it frames the experience of ‘waking up in the morning’ around a menu of all the things you have missed since yesterday. Your mind and your morning are hijacked. You are immediately in catch-up mode. So much ...

The World today sees the most widespread questioning and rejection of the capitalist system. The crisis of the World economy is making itself felt in all spheres of life, causing immense instability in politics and World relations. A social crisis has found its reflection in mass Consciousness, particularly amongst young people. In many parts of the World ...

You force yourself to wake up in the morning, dress up, drive straight to work, drive back home about 8 hours later, watch TV and sleep, only to repeat the same routine next day for almost the entire of your life. You consider this kind of living as normal and even healthy, but if you stop and ...

Our collective actions seem to have pushed the World toward collapse. Natural resources are being depleted at an alarming rate. The sources of drinking water are being poisoned. Pollution in many forms is increasing to dangerous levels. The environment and farmlands are being critically degraded. Commercial fishing stocks are collapsing. Populations are still rising. When you ...

Almost 100,000 species have been assessed so far for this inventory of endangered species. Of these, more than a quarter are threatened with extinction. The Earth is being driven towards a mass extinction event - only the sixth in the last half-billion years. The last time we had a similar situation was about 66 million years ago, ...

The media World is creating a big gap between expectations and reality. In the media World, everyone is handsome, rich, happy and living the drea. Every day, you are exposed to thousands of ads showing you all these happy people. Not surprisingly you connect happiness with buying new things. And you figure out that shopping does not really ...