Many go to the movies preferring to watch certain styles of films in order to be taken away from the realities of their every day lives. For two hours they are entertained, whisked away to lands far, far away, they laugh, they cry, they jump out of their seats in excitements or they hide under…
Category: Essays
Surveillance Capitalism – Shoshana Zuboff (3/3)
The Right to Sanctuary Sanc-tu-ar-y: A place of refuge or safety. Surveillance Capitalism – Definition: A new economic order that claims human experience as free raw material for hidden commercial practices of extraction, prediction, and sales; A parasitic economic logic in which the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new global architecture…
Violence Against Women in Education
Women have been under attack and blamed for a lot since Eve offered the fruit to Adam in the Garden of Eden. Strong female characters in the Bible weren’t portrayed in a positive light either; Lilith, Jezebel, Delilah, Rachel and Leah’s bickering, Sarah and Hagar etc. As the centuries progressed women have been able…
There is Hope – A New Wave of Dissidents
The above popular rock song immediately shot to popularity upon its release. It’s a song that bring solidarity, a song to sing to ready the troops and do battle, a song to inspire individuals to band together to right some wrongs, a song to stand up to authoritarian figures when you are ready to put…
Moving towards a Bipolar World
An Essay Have you visited Huawei’s website? I have. While I was thumbing through its digital pages, I realized how much our world seems to be shrinking. Smart cities, the internet, the internet of things, neural networks around the globe in which we call earth is turning into one big ball of yarn threaded by…
A Patient Revolution
Compassion is defined as the emotional response to another’s pain or suffering involving an authentic desire to help. In the medical profession, one would think that compassion should be a cornerstone of caring for patients, it is currently debatable if health care providers (HCP) compassion is merely an “ought” – a moral imperative out of…
Compassionomics – Stephen Trezciak
Compassionomics: The World is Broken Compassionomics is a relatively new term mainly referring to the medical field to look at compassion as a value proposition. Rising complaints within the medical professions of “systemic inhumanity” within patient based medicine. Leading those to believe that we are in a compassion crisis in healthcare. Treating patients more kindly,…
Food as Medicine
Suggested Reading: Why Food could Be the Best Medicine of All – Time Magazine Today’s societies are faced with so many “dooms-day” stories about what life will be for humans on this planet for the generations of tomorrow; and the outlook does n’t look very good. We have environmental emergencies, robots taking over our jobs,…
Jacinda Arden: Compassionomics
March 2019, thousands of students took to the streets in New Zealand in protest against climate change – ‘Raise your voice, not the sea level’. RNZ reports, “At least 2000 spirited students and their supporters descended on Parliament as students around the country demand urgent action on climate change. The lawn in front of the…
Saving Medicare
Medicare in Canada is a government-funded universal health insurance program established by legislation passed in 1957, 1966 and 1984. The Canada Health Act does not cover prescription drugs, home care or long-term care or dental care, which means most Canadians rely on private insurance from their employers or the government to pay for those costs….
