Modern Melting Pot

Depression

The Price of Genius: Robin Williams

George Davis on August 16, 2014

The highs of genius, the threats of madness

The highs of genius, the threats of madness

Our “dream may already be true! It is just waiting for us to come true.”

Cognition

Can an Environmental Computer Game Save the Planet?

George Davis on November 10, 2013

Must the next great novel be a multimedia, group-authored computer game?

Must the next great novel be a multimedia, group-authored computer game?

Can multimedia do what reading once did?

For a combat veteran with PTSD a therapy dog can be more than just a best friend!

Technobiophilia is a benign psychological state

Can a group-authored novel-as-a-game ever be good literature?

Mama’s Boys are forever speaking to the archetypical mother in their minds.

Sometimes what you feel is as important as what you know.

“As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…”

Writing can be the ultimate mind-body medicine.

We Americans of all races will never know who we really are until we correct the vision of Africa in the American mind.

The whole world speculating, pontificating, studying, debating, deciding, and acting on what a black man or, eventually, what a woman thinks is truly transformational.

Imagination

Obama’s 2nd Term: Expanding the Liberal Imagination

George Davis on February 10, 2013

The predominant liberal, conservative and African American narratives keep African Americans at the bottom of the Drama Triangle.

The predominant liberal, conservative and African American narratives keep African Americans at the bottom of the Drama Triangle.

African American organizations receive a lot of donations from liberals in Hollywood. The most generous donations would be more stories about how wonderful it is to be African American.

One of the beautiful things about America is the racial/cultural differences of its people! And gender differences are more beautiful than that!

Some people tend to devalue qualities they find in others that are missing in themselves.

The Hollywood feud between Spike Lee and Quentin Tarantino is more than skin deep.

In the new century “American exceptionalism” must be based on the truth that it is different from other countries because it has become a composite of other countries.

Americans need not worry about the vast shifts in the racial composition of the new world order. We’ve got all the bases (or races) covered.