I never believed that lamenting was real. The uncontrollable outbursts of grief, and the whole falling to the floor howling wasn’t anything that I had personally witnessed. Raised catholic, I never saw that kind of emotion at either a family memorial service nor within my church at any time...

I do a lot of reading although I tend to pick up research materials over novels. But when I do read novels, I tend to go to ...

Groupthink, Fear & Implicit Prejudice.
I wrote this in 2019. I'm reposting it because the conditions that produced it haven’t gone away.