Author: Andrew Taggart
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Optimism Is Betrayal
Let optimism be defined as faith that the future, individually or collectively, shall be better than the present situation. Then optimism, I say, is betrayal. When you’re a child, being optimistic is a legitimate pragmatic fudge. You often benefited from believing that the thing around the bend would lift you out of the funk, that your concerted…
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A Commitment To The Cosmos
Look, somewhere down the line we killed the cosmos and we’re living long, long, long after that enveloping we once knew. Living limply afterward. This was a very bad idea. Existentialism starts off from the death of the cosmos and then advises us to buck and embrace our own lonely freedom. Even worse. Without a…
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Discontent Is Really Everywhere–In You
There’s that nagging thing. You forget when it started. You’ve done a lot to try to get rid of it and, barring that, to diminish it. Remember? There was that one thing you did–that was pretty crazy. But not just that one thing either. Think of all the zany antics and mental gymnastics you’ve been…
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We Are Busy People Despite What The Research Says
Research suggests that we’re not as objectively busy as we think we are. Accepting the research findings, Kyle Kowalski then provides hypotheses, which seek to explain why we might feel so busy anyway. My tack? It’s more elemental. I simply reject the premise upon which the research findings are based. It’s not strictly a question of measuring how…
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In Search Of A Central Question
Imagine this. It’s just barely 1970, you’ve been living in San Francisco, and here have come psychedelics, hippies, and Eastern religions all seemingly out of nowhere. You want to know, don’t you?, what’s going on and what it means for individual and collective human development. Guess what? You don’t have to exert your imagine too much…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 