Society

Verbal rhetoric such as public speaking is useful but has limitations. This communication is great for goals and inspiration but does not produce behavioral changes. This is the myth of transformative information.

Transformative communication requires more than speaking. Why do we prefer verbal rhetoric, what culture is produced as a result, and what else should we try to do?

Rural places are declining. Why are rural communities desolate, backward, and useless? What should the urban-rural relationship look like?

The religious tendency of navigating a complicated world according to Emile Durkheim

Do things depreciate over time or gain value over time? The balance between tradition and progress shouldn’t be one-sided. Growth and change should be informed by roots and history.

A suggestion for roots, growth, and moving forward.

A concept from Emile Durkheim on why our secular world might be more sociologically religious than we think.

Belonging and the four ingredients of community — from Emile Durkheim’s study of suicide.

Two unsatisfactory approaches to society are (1) blind acceptance of how things are and (2) overt verdicts on society’s moral status as a whole.

Neither pays attention to the process of how norms came to be nor the variety of outcomes they produce. The better approach is to notice what society creates and what it might be at the expense of.

Lessons on labor and the futile attempt to rewire society’s economics toward good, meaningful work.

The functions of society, social facts, and the collective life according to Emile Durkheim.

A Two-Week Immersion With Central America & Dismal Lessons Learned — I can’t save the world. What, then, should I do? Globalism, economics, politics, imperialism, colonization; in experiencing the discrepancy of core and periphery societies, what ought we do with one of world history's biggest problems?

An open letter to high school graduates. Fortunately, your story is just getting started.

How to read the Bible and not to be a biblical conspiracy theorist.