by Barry Phegan | Jul 31, 2020 | Social comment
Tribalism is built into our genes and our culture. It brings cooperation and kindness with those we know, and discrimination and brutality against ‘others’. We’ve layered on a political and regulatory system allowing a powerful minority to extract wealth from...
by Barry Phegan | Jul 15, 2020 | Living Life, Social comment
Many of us are doing deep soul searching in the wake of graphic police brutality and the systemic racism that spawned it. It’s the latest step along the way of 100,000 years of man’s brutality against those who are, “Not my tribe.” Tribalism and its close...
by Barry Phegan | Jun 30, 2020 | Aging, Living Life, Social comment
Sometimes a simple event transforms a person’s anxiety into elation. I’ve learned that I can be that transformer for my grandchildren. In our all-too-busy consumer culture, where life may at times feel like a task, I’ll parachute into my grandson’s...
by Barry Phegan | Jun 15, 2020 | Living Life, Social comment
Stop Dumping, Start Humanizing We must stop dumping the byproducts of unresolved social, economic, and political issues on the police. And the police must do a better job screening applicants and demilitarizing the police culture. On June 7, 2020, following the...
by Barry Phegan | May 29, 2020 | Living Life, Social comment
As we enter week eleven of COVID-19 shelter-in-place, I’ve been thinking of the universal law, “Nothing Exists In A Vacuum” — everything has a cause, everything comes from somewhere. So did COVID-19. What changes set the stage for this unique coronavirus to...
by Barry Phegan | May 15, 2020 | Living Life, Social comment
I don’t want to get back to normal. I don’t want to return to business-as-usual. This global pandemic has put front and center some dark sides of our great nation: extreme inequality, tribalism, the excessive political power of corporations, and the adversarial...
