They don't just relieve pain and worry, they produce psychic euphoria, a sense that the rest of the world has slipped away, especially when abused – perpetuating the potential for addiction.
Art has as much potential to perpetuate oppressive power structures as it does to dismantle them.
Those black members of the audience I spoke to on Monday were divided as to whether her Nigerian jokes had the potential to perpetuate racism, although all agreed that Osho is one of the funniest comedians they had seen.
The effectiveness of the niche of freshwater algae as a remover of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the ecosystem, and its potential to perpetuate carbon cycle are to be systematically investigated.
The problem arises when we fail to to acknowledge that many of these online communities have the potential to perpetuate oppressive power structures rather than challenging them.
This has the potential to perpetuate, if not increase the gap between highly efficient well resourced RECs and poorly resourced RECs in South Africa.
The general public's lack of understanding about even the most basic genetics concepts suggest that such studies have the potential to perpetuate misconceptions about HGV, likely stigmatizing groups.
Meta-analytic techniques in the analysis of nonrandomized studies have been criticized for their potential to perpetuate the individual biases of each study and to give a false impression of cohesion in the literature, thus discouraging further research [ 24].
"If we continue to fail, we will only perpetuate the cycle of wasted potential, low achievement, low work aspirations, anti-social behaviour and lifetimes on benefits, which now typifies millions of lives and is repeated through succeeding generations," said the report.
