Do people really love themselves? Some writers think that people do not love themselves, saying that true self-love, in the sense of self-acceptance, is learned, often very painfully so. I agree. Nigel Pocock Part of the difficulty is that people confuse self-esteem and self-love. I concur, with Scott […]
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Has a culture of ‘rights’ prevented healing from abuse?
This looks like a highly provocative and paradoxical title, and so it is. What we present here is an outworking of Ofer Zur’s article (2006), The Pathology of Victimhood. Nigel Pocock Zur argues that the tendency to ignore the psychology of victims arises from a fear of blaming […]
Affonso Uchoa: the power of fiction to transform experience
He talks about his fears for Brazil under the extreme right-wing government of Bolsonaro, especially the abuse of minority groups. His film about the arrest and violent abuse of a young man by the Brazilian police is also an interesting experiment in combining documentary and fiction.
Unethical journalism
Theoretically, modern journalism has five objectives: informing, interpreting, entertaining, educating and giving opinions. Nevertheless, in reality, their objectives are: manipulating, lying, distorting, persecuting and generating business for those who are able to pay for their services. Patricio Mery Bell* Journalism generates feelings far removed from reality, for example, […]
A mother’s despair… The kidnapped son
After two years of court proceedings, Karol Marmolejo lives with the anguish of the second kidnapping of Angelo, her 9-year-old son. His father, Rafael, is the perpetrator. In a conversation with The Prisma, Karol told her story of the incessant search for her youngest son.
















