by Phil Braham | Sep 13, 2018 | General, politics, Social commentary
The terms left-wing or right-wing where it pertains to politics come from the French National Assembly that was set up after the revolution in the summer of 1789. The anti-royalist revolutionaries seated themselves to the left of the assembly, and the traditionalists...
by Phil Braham | Sep 10, 2018 | General, politics, Psychology, Social commentary
The philosopher Karl Popper wrote about the paradox of tolerance. In a nutshell, if we allow people who are intolerant to have a full voice then they will overwhelm the tolerant, and in the end our freedom of expression will be extinguished. There’s another view:...
by Phil Braham | Sep 4, 2018 | General, politics, Psychology, Social commentary
More and more nowadays people identify with a group: LBGQ, Atheist, Christian, anti-trump, pro-Trump etc. The problem with this is that having identified with a group they have given up their own authenticity. I’ve seen may articles, for instance on Quora, where...
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