by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Mar 2, 2022 | Creativity, Politics, Writing, Writing Habits
It’s important as an informed citizen to be aware of our country’s foreign policy decisions, and that does require an awareness of the military actions of our allies, our adversaries, and ourselves. But this does not mean being glued to “War TV” every...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Feb 12, 2022 | Philosophy, Politics
One thing that mountain climbing taught me is the value of acceptance. It is raining, or it is not, the route is open or it is not, the summit is attainable or it is not. I cannot debate the mountain, I cannot twist its arm, and I cannot trick it. My only duty is to...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Oct 18, 2021 | Goals, Politics, Social Media, Social Media Ethics
Creating an international economic and political solution to global warming is difficult—perhaps the most difficult problem humanity has ever faced. Mocking the people who are trying to do this in a speech by saying blah, blah, blah is easy—but infantile and...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Mar 24, 2021 | Creativity, Philosophy, Politics
There are two of the definitions of ambivalence in the Oxford English Dictionary: Psychoanalysis and Psychology. The coexistence in one person of profoundly opposing emotions, beliefs, attitudes, or urges (such as love and hate, or attraction and repulsion) towards a...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Mar 3, 2021 | Politics, Social Media, Twitter
Most of what I write and tweet about are superficially boring topics to most people. This is intentional. For example, although I happen to have fairly stable political and ethical opinions, and although I spend quite a lot of intellectual energy and capital...
by Matthew Rehrl MD, MS | Jan 27, 2020 | Health, Politics
The Spanish Flu of 1918-1919 killed between 20-50 million people and the attached image shows what it looked like for various cities. We have known for some time that pandemics can hit at any time. We have known for some time that with air travel (also known as...
