The efforts to widen self-censorship and endless praising of a single leader under every condition and about every issue doesn't help produce science, art or technology.
On the ever-widening self-publishing scale that goes all the way from botanically dyed, hand-coloured avant garde pamphlet at one end to the mobile-device-friendly, app at the other, The Exploding Boy and Other Tiny Tales is most definitely at the avant garde end.
Four years into the effort, the distance between competing water constituencies has only been widening as self-imposed deadlines come and go.
In favour of a widened and self-sustaining society, it must inveigh equally against the plutocractic outcomes of the market and the state.
But the fact is that we have vast potential to expand not just our range of skills over the course of a lifetime, but also to deepen our self-awareness, relax our self-absorption, widen our circle of care and lengthen our perspective.
Her gaze, hitherto focused on the self, widened to include political and social concerns; she soon produced reports on local poorhouses, insane asylums and jails.
According to Otto Kernberg, identity crisis results from the discrepancy between rapidly shifting physical and psychological experiences, on the one hand, and a widening gap between self-perception and the experiences of others' perceptions of the self, on the other hand [ 17].
Nor do self-directed services widen inequality, as many on the left mistakenly allege.
However, by employing game theory he shows that states can widen the perception of their self-interest through economic cooperation and involvement in international institutions.
It leads to narcissistic and deluded self-views that widen the gap between our fantasized talents and the talents others think we have.
In this book, neuropsychologist Marc Wittmann shows how experiences that disturb or widen our everyday understanding of the self can help solve the mystery of consciousness.
