It might help us all to acknowledge it

Some make us look foolish, and some make us look wise. We are imperfect mirrors for each other’s lives. — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Read every story from Jim Mason (and thousands of other writers on Medium): https://jmason37-80878.medium.com/membership

Why do we humans enjoy breaking things, seeing things broken, or threatening to break them? It begins quite early in childhood. One child carefully builds a structure out of building blocks, and another child, or even the same child, then delights in knocking it down. It persists through adolescence, as…

We humans have experiences that they do not I have just published a piece titled “Our Fascinating Senses of Touch” here on Medium. If a similar piece were to be written by one of the text-generating large language programs, would it be legitimate for the word “Our” to appear in…

The who, what, where, how, when, and why of them — As is well known, our skin is our largest bodily organ. It contains cells that are receptive to pressure, pain, heat, and cold. …

“I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain’d, I stand and look at them long and long. “They do not sweat and whine about their condition, They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins…

Greed and envy, entitlement, and guilt Many human conflicts arise from asymmetries in our views of one another. The rich often feel entitled to what they have and resent the poor for stealing from them, while the poor often resent the rich for being greedy and feel entitled to steal…

About how human institutions and supra-organisms operate The continuing crisis in the United States over the process of Presidential elections is a large-scale example of how we humans behave as a species of social animal. …

What you see is not exactly what you get If you are like many people, you will be able to see a face on the coffee mug pictured above. …