The Window
We sit in a car in traffic worry stress become annoyed with those around us who are also locked in their metal and glass boxes also worried stressed and annoyed. The Window, Tokyo, Japan – Bantry,...
View ArticleHuman Needs: Support and Conflict
As humans, we have certain needs. There are, of course, the basic needs of food, shelter, and water, but these needs are only for sustaining our physical bodies. Beyond the physical needs, there are...
View ArticleWhen Tolerance is Wrong
photograph: Patrick Lydon If a people are taught tolerance they live to be themselves and to let others be themselves Tolerance is part of life and the people live in harmony with eachother If a people...
View ArticleThe Difficult Part of Simple Life
Green and Building, Hong Kong (photo: Patrick Lydon) The act of simply living life as we were meant to is really quite easy. It’s the part where we must shed our beliefs in what modern society has...
View ArticleWhy We Shout About Poverty
Photogrpahs by Suhee Kang Words by Patrick Lydon We shout about poverty use it to define those who ‘do not have’ But before our influence spread These people didn’t know of money, wealth, extravagance,...
View ArticleThe Dark Future for America’s Brightest City
The Frank Lloyd Wright designed San Jose Center for Performing Arts sits empty (photo: Patrick Lydon | sociecity) Like Many U.S. cities, the San Jose, California is in damage control mode, struggling...
View ArticleOne: Wealth in Simplicity
In the past few years of traveling and living as a citizen of the world, I have come across many people who live many different lifestyles. In doing so, I have found certain truths which most members...
View ArticleOne: True Freedom
One: True Freedom (photo by Patrick Lydon | South Korea) From our birth, each step we take in this modern world is a step away from true freedom From our birth, we have no chance to realize what we...
View ArticleOne: True Self
One: True Self (photo by Patrick Lydon | Poland) The true self is in living for your being and allowing others to live for theirs The true society is in caring for others without placing...
View ArticleBea
We met Bea some weeks ago. I was with The Doctor, having one of our clandestine lunches, those lunches that we have when everything around us seems too meaningless or too messy. We were talking,...
View ArticleOne: The Road in Front of You
One: The Road in Front of You (photo by Patrick Lydon | Ireland) To begin on a path of unlearning all you have been taught seems a frightening undertaking a lonely undertaking an aimless undertaking...
View ArticleThe Seeds
Empire State Building, New York City (photo: Patrick Lydon | sociecity) There are those who know well the nature of humans; of our shortsightedness and of our lust for self destructive behavior so long...
View ArticleIs Global Warming Really the Problem?
The City 'Farm' on top of Osaka Station is about as natural as one can get in the middle of the city (photo: Patrick Lydon | sociecity) People have been playing the “environment” harp for many decades....
View ArticleSame-Sex Marriage vs. The World
This article is part of Sociecity Youth on Assignment, a program where Sociecity Editors work with high school students and their teachers to help students create articles that bring to light real,...
View ArticleTechnology: Destroying or Improving our Children?
This article is part of Sociecity Youth on Assignment, a program where Sociecity Editors work with high school students and their teachers to help students create articles that bring to light real,...
View ArticleStanding Alone
This article is part of Sociecity Youth on Assignment, a program where Sociecity Editors work with high school students and their teachers to help students create articles that bring to light real,...
View ArticleImmigration in America
This article is part of Sociecity Youth on Assignment, a program where Sociecity Editors work with high school students and their teachers to help students create articles that bring to light real,...
View ArticleRight and Wrong
This article is part of Sociecity Youth on Assignment, a program where Sociecity Editors work with high school students and their teachers to help students create articles that bring to light real,...
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