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Fre­quent and sub­stan­tial con­ver­sa­tions with oth­ers cre­ates a sense of well-being, accord­ing to a psy­chol­ogy study reported in Sci­ence Daily this morn­ing. Greater well-being was related to spend­ing less time alone and more time talk­ing to oth­ers: The hap­pi­est par­tic­i­pants spent 25% less time alone and 70% more time talk­ing than the unhap­pi­est par­tic­i­pants. In […]

“At the moment when human beings cut them­selves off from the con­scious­ness of them­selves as nature, all pur­poses for which they keep them­selves alive — social progress, the height­en­ing of mate­r­ial and intel­lec­tual forces, indeed con­scious­ness itself — becomes void, and the enthrone­ment of the means as an end, which in late cap­i­tal­ism is taking […]