Douglas R. Satterfield

Hello. I provide one article every day. My writings are influenced by great thinkers such as Friedrich Nietzsche, Karl Jung, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Jean Piaget, Erich Neumann, and Jordan Peterson, whose insight and brilliance have gotten millions worldwide to think about improving ourselves. Thank you for reading my blog.

Author Archives: Douglas R. Satterfield

We See Our Lives Through Stories

By | December 4, 2024

[December 4, 2024]  There have been some serious discussions in academia, particularly among psychologists, that we see our lives through stories. We can say, with some certainty, that those stories have undergone inspection and reinforcement by people who were part of that story and significant others in our lives.  This helps ensure that any particular story is believable,… Read More »

Dying Dog Got Lucky

By | December 2, 2024

[December 2, 2024] This is the story of an abandoned dog, lost in a forest, and luckily, he was found by a kind young woman. An interesting point I want to make is that my most-read articles involve pets, and it’s because folks love their pets. For some reason, we have a strong bond between us and our… Read More »

The Infamous Jaffe Memorandum

By | November 30, 2024

[November 30, 2024]  Throughout the 1960s, there was a credible belief that the expanding world population would drive global starvation and other catastrophic consequences. In response to a request from the U.S. Population Council, Frederick Jaffe wrote a memorandum outlining then-current ideas for population control (reducing total population numbers and growth). At the time, Jaffe was the vice… Read More »

Reading List: The Population Bomb

By | November 29, 2024

[November 29, 2024] In the 1960s, there was a popular idea circulating in academia that the world’s population growth was rapidly exceeding its environmental and technical limits to support itself. The results would be widespread starvation, affecting mostly children in poor nations, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of southwest Asia. Ideas behind this thinking started in the… Read More »

Thanksgiving Day Thanks

By | November 28, 2024

[November 28, 2024]  There are many ways to give thanks.  Thank you to God, Country, and Family.  And, of course, to our many friends who are scattered around the world who are never forgotten.  My favorite contemporary cartoonist, Michael Ramirez, drew this one for us and thank those who make Thanksgiving Day possible. Ramirez created this for Veterans… Read More »

The Boy from Stonewall

By | November 25, 2024

[November 25, 2024]  His name was ”Lex” Walker, and he was from Stonewall, Texas, the same town as the late President Lyndon B. Johnson was from. I didn’t make friends easily in those days.  Maybe it was my outstanding personality (that’s sarcasm) or the Brylcreem hair gel that I used on my head that made me so popular.… Read More »