Category: Cultural Analysis
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Everyone Wanted to Rebuild Too Fast
After the pandemic, cultural pressure to bounce back clashed with the real neuroscience of trauma recovery. This essay examines why everyone rebuilt too fast — and what it cost. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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Reframing Numbness as Adaptation
Emotional numbness surged during the early 2020s. Explore the psychology and neuroscience behind why the nervous system numbs itself — and why that’s adaptation, not failure. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Decline of Deliberate Thinking
How social media, smartphones, and AI reshaped human attention since 2021, and what psychology and neuroscience reveal about the decline of deliberate thinking. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Biology of Recklessness
Explore the biology and psychology behind reckless behavior — how stress, dopamine, social contagion, and history combine to drive human risk-taking. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The First Generation of Self-Observers
How therapeutic culture, self-help publishing, and early internet shaped the first generation raised to examine their own psychology — and what that produced. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
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The Age of Hyper-Self Awareness
The age of hyper-self awareness — what psychology and neuroscience reveal about why self-monitoring feels rewarding, its cultural roots, and its hidden costs. Read More
Written by Khali Sollis
