Tag: society

• Letting Go, or My Flight from Societal Cannibalism

  I was parking at the local coffee shop this morning and was faced again for the millionth time with my spatial dyslexia, the not quite utter inability of my brain to understand my place in space. I’m certainly not the only one who lives the struggles of left/right, up/down, near/far, east/west. The constant challenge with…

  joegergen

  November 26, 2022

  art, life, writing

  cannibalism, community, competition, growth, inadequacy, society, weakness, writing

• Introversion: Your Struggle is Not My Struggle

  “I know you struggle with your Introversion.” What? Someone said that to me the other day. And I thought hmm, and being a good Introvert I mulled it over for a while to pin down what I thought about that. I certainly had a lot of thoughts about that. The next logical step was to…

  joegergen

  November 7, 2022

  life

  extroversion, introversion, introvert, outcast, self-awareness, society, struggle

• Death of the Guilty Conscience

  One of the themes from my second book, “Without a Pang,” addresses ideas around the value or need or even the role that a guilty conscience plays in society. Not that I have any great insight on that nor do I have an answer. The theme sort of came out in the telling and so…

  joegergen

  July 30, 2022

  life, writing

  accountability, apology, conscience, guilt, guilty, pang, shame, social norms, society, writing