The Salient Observer

“How do you ethically steer the thoughts and actions of two billion people’s minds every day?” Tristan Harris asks this question because he was part of the design!  Called the “closest thing Silicon Valley has to a conscience,” by The Atlantic magazine, Tristan Harris spent three years as a Google Design Ethicist developing a framework for how technology should “ethically” steer the thoughts and actions of billions of people from screens. Highly recommend people listen to Mr. Harris !  He gives hope that someone will not sell their soul for profit when so many do.  Check out what he has to say, it will shock most of us to realize our devices are specifically designed to addict us!  Addiction that is as powerful as heroine!  Hope that gets your attention! Click here for enlightenment.

There might be no other recognized discipline in life that is more inconsistent and confusing than mental health.  Those professionally involved do a great and immense disservice by not recognizing this very fact.  Let me change my mind right here, the mental health confusion takes second place to that of religion.  Religion is the most confusing and complex.  I would agree that religion makes the same arrogant claim. Is there anything more controversial than faith?  Yet, if you walk into a specific church, they act like there is no confusion at all.  Outside of their doors is chaos, inside certainty.  How can this be? The only clear reason I can come up with is certain people have an ability to grab hold of something and never let go.  It might be the truth (by truth in the religious sense I refer to THE truth).  In the mental health profession there is more flexibility, but with the same “religious” certainty to their particular phi...