2am. My eyes opened and all I saw was the dark. I mean, it was 2am! Of course it was dark. My mind started to race. This was during a particularly difficult time of my adult life. At least, that’s what my brain told me. And there was evidence to support the claim. There…
If you’ve read American Prometheus, you know that after helping create the atomic bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer began warning the government about the consequences of the nuclear arms race. Rather than seriously considering what he had to say, powerful people worked to discredit and silence him. Reading the book got me thinking about how often…
You hear it regularly. I know I do.“I don’t feel safe.”And that can be important. Manipulation exists, Abuse, and real danger is out there. But what if we’ve started using the language of safety to describe something else entirely? What if we actually confuse discomfort at being disagreed with or being held responsible for our…
