Category: Psychology
VW (Think Small)
December 7, 2021In the 1950’s, U.S. industry had firmly embraced the ideology of planned obsolescence and obsolesence of desirability to convince consumers they constantly needed to buy something new. Competing auto makers were building ever bigger and more stylised cars for growing families with baby boomer children.…
Height Blind
January 8, 2020The Simple Growth Obsession Test
January 15, 2015Voluntary Simplicity
April 23, 2014Voluntary simplicity is characterised by individuals being satisfied with what they need rather than what they want. Simple living movements testify to the mindset and behaviour needed for humanity to make drastic changes. Its many secular and religious manifestations function as a source of how to…
The Puppet in your Eye
October 18, 2013This Crowded Earth
November 30, 2012Alice in Wonderland Syndrome
August 20, 2012Universal Height Dysphoria
July 8, 2012Perhaps humanity’s willingness to accept the damaging consequences of increasing human height is the the result of a universal case of height dysphoria. Height dysphoria is a mental disorder that leads to excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of physical size. Most often this means the…