Category: Psychology

• Our City Crises: A Mechanical Failure

  A village parable reveals why New York’s crisis isn’t about greed or compassion—but a broken economic mechanism no one wants to inspect.

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 18, 2025

  Politics, Psychology

  Capital flight, city blight, Economic Decline, Enginerr’s Perspective, Housing crisis, Infrastructure failure, New Your city, Police Defunding, political economy, Political Graft, Political pandering, Price controsl, public policy failure, Socailism, urban poilcy

• That Part of Us Waiting to Be Born

  A thoughtful reflection on the Immaculate Conception reinterpreted as a universal symbol of inner renewal, showing how anyone — believer or not — can discover the unbroken self within and allow new life to sprout beyond inherited fear and shame.

  RMDell’Orfano

  December 8, 2025

  Mysticism, Psychology, Religion

  Catholic themes, contemplative spirituality, human potential, Immaculate Conception, inner renewal, Mary, modern faith, overcoming shame, personal growth, spiritual psychology, spiritual reflection, transformation, Tree of Life, universal symbolism

• AI Gone Rogue

  Suppose you got on ChatGPT and asked it to verify you exist. Then it reports that no such person was ever born.

  RMDell’Orfano

  November 20, 2025

  Psychology, Science

  Chat GPT, Insane Asylum, Rogue AI

• Rabies of the Soul

  When Political Outrage Becomes a Reckless Religion

  RMDell’Orfano

  October 17, 2025

  Politics, Psychology, Religion

  Amish, Charley Kirk, civil war, Flannery O’Connor, FOMO, Harper’s Ferry, Jehovahs’ Witness, John Brown, Raabies of the soul, Scientology, Shaker rituals, The Puritan Reflex, Traumatic grace

• Our Cornered-Cat Generation

  Antifa’s rage isn’t about ideology — it’s about alienation and inequality. Richard M. Dell’Orfano recalls his penniless pilgrimage and the inner revolution that heals it.

  RMDell’Orfano

  October 10, 2025

  Politics, Psychology, Religion

  alienation, Antifa, counterculture, inequality, OUrCorneredCatGeneration, PathPerilous, RichardM.DellOrfano, spirtualawakening, trump, VisionQuest, Youth Rebellion

• The Doomscrolling Bomb:

  Doomscrolling is the slot machine in your pocket—random rewards keep you hooked. Like Skinner’s pigeons, most don’t even notice the cage.

  RMDell’Orfano

  September 14, 2025

  Psychology

  B.F.Skinner scrollings, Charlie Kirk assassination, doomscrolling, Extinction bomb, isolation, Loneliness, political polarization, Tyler Robinson

• The Musk Paradox

  Musk’s myth depends on his never blinking. Myths flare. Myths inspire, then they collapse.

  RMDell’Orfano

  June 6, 2025

  Psychology, Uncategorized, Wellness

  billionaire burnout, colonizing Mars, Elon Musk, immortal god, Ketamine, Mars, Musk’s Asperger, Musk’s Boring Co., Neuralink, Prometheus metaphor, shooting star, social media addiction victim, Space X decline, Tesla, Transhumanism, Trump vs Musk, X Twitter

• AI-Induced Psychosis

  Chat GPT has enormous potential to delude users into thinking they’re the next best thing to Shakespeare, Montaigne, or even Christ.

  RMDell’Orfano

  May 5, 2025

  Companionship, Mysticism, Perception, Psychology

  ai, ai robots, artificial-intelligence, Becoming like God, Chat GPT, chatgpt, Japanese humanoids, openai, private trainers, technology, wrinkle cure

• The New Face of Heroin Addiction

  An ounce of prayerful prevention is worth a pound of methadone.

  RMDell’Orfano

  March 24, 2025

  Education, Psychology, Religion, Uncategorized, Wellness

  Capitall of Heroine addiction, Homelessness Causing addiction, Methadone, Mindful Meditation, prayerful prevention, self-hypnosis, Teenage heroin mules, Vermont

• The Holy Door

  grace is not something one can earn through ritual or self-effort.

  RMDell’Orfano

  January 13, 2025

  Mysticism, Psychology, Religion, Suffering

  absolution, agony and ecstasy, Catholicism, Flannery OConnor, Ganges ritual, Hindu, Hindus, Mohatma Ghandi, Muslims, Pope Francis, The game of CLUE, the rebirth, Vatican Holy Door