In this essay the main subject of inquiry will be humor and its relation to death. Specifically I am interested to investigate “How is the subject of death discussed and understood in the social context of ‘dark humor’? what makes a joke funny, and what does it reveal about modern conceptions of death?”. By first…
Utopian Communes – The Case of Rajneeshpuram and the Israeli Kibbutz
Introduction: The goal of this analysis is to inspect how religious and nationalistic symbolic language is used to either reject or integrate utopian communes within a given democratic society. Based on previous social psychological research, I expect to find that labeling a commune as an “out-group” will be quicker when it is religiously affiliated, as…
Clearing Things Up – The Israeli-Palestinian Blindness
Originally Published on 12th of May 2021, in the midst of “Operation Guardian of the Walls”, on The Rocky Road post. Posts I’ve seen shared online by my English-speaking friends from abroad compelled me to give some perspective of how just messily complicated this whole mess truly is. These people are good people with good…
Further Than Any Stretch of the Imagination: Where Peterson Goes Too Far
Originally Published on 6th of July, 2017 in the r/JordanPeterson Forum Despite this title, I should note that I have little interest in Peterson’s more controversial political positions regarding gender and transsexualism, which have been the focal point of the criticisms leveled against him. Personally, I found immense value in his lectures, and books and…