Extroverts

Our culture tilts its reward system toward extroverts. Natch. Extroverts comprise 75 percent of the population. Extroverts define and animate civilization’s breadth dimension. Introverts, the psychological spear-carriers for depth, are in a distinct minority. So, yes, things are wobbly now.

Dadness

Have you noticed this, how the role of fatherhood turns men into butlers?

Make me proud

Whomever we wish to impress, we are enslaved by.

Ego

Ego needs an enemy, something to be against, in order to invigorate itself.

The Moviegoer

In the cinema, an audience takes for real the images on the screen. Back on the street, same phenomenon—people feeling this way or that, taking for real the thoughts in their heads.