Emotion Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/emotion/ Vincent Ryan Ruggiero - Author of books and essays Fri, 27 Jan 2023 15:06:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://mind-at-work.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/cropped-open-book-32x32.png Emotion Archives - Vincent Ryan Ruggiero Official website - Author https://mind-at-work.com/essays/emotion/ 32 32 America’s Epidemic of Foolishness https://mind-at-work.com/americas-epidemic-of-foolishness/ Fri, 27 Jan 2023 14:29:33 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=5172 Watching the news these days calls to mind the old Jewish adage, “Send a fool to close the shutters and he’ll close them all over town.” It’s hard to tell whether there are more foolish people today than there used to be, or whether the ones we’ve always had have gained positions of greater influence [...]

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]]> Reversing America’s Decline https://mind-at-work.com/reversing-americas-decline/ Sat, 04 Sep 2021 15:10:04 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=4560 Americans of every race, creed, social and economic condition are increasingly concerned about the decline of their country. Why, they are asking, has common sense given way to nonsense, wisdom to foolishness, sanity to insanity, harmony to discord? This essay addresses that question. From the time of the ancient Greeks to a few generations ago, [...]

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]]> Toilet Paper and the Human Intellect, Part 2 https://mind-at-work.com/toilet-paper-and-the-human-intellect-part-2/ Sat, 28 Mar 2020 15:49:10 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3824  Rodin's The Thinker Part 1 of this essay began by noting the strange but amusing behavior of many Americans to the Coronavirus—rushing out and buying toilet paper. It ended by recalling Christopher Morley’s observation that humor can reveal how important and unimportant things “are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.” In between the [...]

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]]> Toilet Paper and the Human Intellect https://mind-at-work.com/toilet-paper-and-the-human-intellect/ Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:11:34 +0000 https://mind-at-work.com/?p=3815                                  Rodin's The Thinker If an explorer from another galaxy happened to visit the U.S. within the last few weeks, she would surely have been puzzled at one public reaction to the Coronavirus—rushing out and buying toilet paper in [...]

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