SOCIAL CRITIQUES


Essay on the Decline of American Society


ECONOMICS

The Social Cost of Business - Conflict between business and the public interest.

Economic Depression is Psychosocial Depression - Rethinking causes of economic cycles.

Economics isn't Economical - The underlying problems with modern economic systems.

A Nation of Walking Billboards - Advertising sucks.

Useless People - Mass consumerism and overpopulation.

A Social Credit Card - Do we need a social credit card?

A Second-Rate America - Where is the nation standing in the world?


EDUCATION

American Education is a Mess - The plight of American Education.

The Dumbing Down of America - How stupid can we get?


ENVIRONMENTAL

Creating Livable Cities - Some thoughts on creating better urban environments.

Reforest the World - A call for recreating wilderness.

Reducing Population - Positive effects of reducing population.


ETHICS/MORALITY

A Better Morality - Changing Morality

On Elitism - What's wrong with elitism?

In Defense of Pornography - Why are we so uncomfortable with erotica?

A Sermon to the Fundamentalists - A sermon I'd like to deliver.


FAMILY

Reconceptualizing the Family - What are the possibilities for families?

Family Matters - Reconstructing the modern family.


MEDIA

What Journalists Should Do - How to solve the problem of media control by private interests.


PSYCHOLOGICAL

A Plague Upon the Land - What are we suffering?

Puritan Culture - The roots of American represiveness and how it hurts us.

Fundamentalist Abuses - How do our society and children fare under fundamentalism?

Is Society Sick? - Can a society be sick?

Scapegoating - How Scapegoating hurts us.

Belief is the Problem - Why Believe anything?

Liberation in Western Culture - How do we liberate ourselves?


CULTURAL/SOCIAL

The War to End All Wars - The origins of current cultural wars.

Do-Gooders and the Bad Nanny State - Why do-gooders should be suspect.

Freedoms Lost - How many freedoms have we lost?

What Should Society Do? - The role of the private vs. the public interests.

We Can Make it Better - What prevents us from creating better societies?

A Bumpkin America - Origins on America's attitudes about art.

The Collective Vision - How most inspiring literature reflects a collective way of thinking.