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(note: this entry is part 5 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves” )
Having escaped the cave of impulsive power seeking and exploitation, moral man prospered.  World-shaping values of ’sacrifice’ and ‘duty’ took root in his mind, forming a life-affirming paradigm of discipline and humility in the service of a higher, transcendent purpose. Through hard work and moral [...]
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(note: this entry is part 4 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Having shed the shackles of unquestioned conformity to the tribal will, heroic man had the world at his fingertips.  Lawless and bold, he could now strike out with sheer brazen wilfullness to attain whatever he wanted. No rules. No laws. Just raw, predatory, winner-take-all power. For what more could [...]
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(note: this entry is part 3 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Having escaped  the cave of animalistic drive reduction, man was confronted with a mysterious and terrifying world. Â
Life and death, day and night passed in rhythmic succession, and he was a helpless observer seeking the good graces of forces larger and more powerful than himself. [...]
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(note: this entry is part 2 of ongoing series starting with the post “Plato’s Seven Caves”)
Early man was much like any ordinary animal. Sleep, hunt, eat, procreate, sleep. With no written language, no bank accounts, no mortgage payments, no religions, no paved roads or stop lights, this simple being was merely present.  Internal tensions (in the [...]
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Plato had a penchant for the allegory. Among his most timeless was the story of a man who, upon escaping from a cave in which he’d been trapped for his entire life, came to realize that all he had ever known was but the whispy gray reflections of shadows from an unseen world. In other [...]
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As a person who spent far too many years in graduate school, pouring through arcane psychological texts, I can tell you that the best psychology research has always been buried before it’s time. This is true for three main reasons:
1. Most academic psychologists are envious and mistrustful of any other theorist whose ideas [...]
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