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.