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Victoria Pynchon

I mediate and arbitrate complex commercial disputes, the former with ADR Services, Inc. in Century City and the latter with...

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The 33 cent wage and income gap is unacceptable and unnecessary. So is the cliché glass ceiling. Bottom line, our...

Negotiating a Culture Inimical to Emotional and Physical Abuse

I saw Athol Fugard's disturbing play Victory tonight at the Fountain Theatre (local L.A. Weekly Review here).  As the Weekly writes, "[w]here and how to direct one's rage is the drama's unanswerable, theological question."

I returned home to a reader comment on my Zimbardo post Avoiding Evil and Promoting Good,  directing my readers to the Situationist which recently posted a Zimbardo lecture:  Genocide to Abu Ghraib:  How Good People Turn Evil

As yesterday's post suggested, we are continually negotiating law and culture with one another, sometimes consciously and sometimes not.  The more we understand our own human frailtiies, the better chance we have of avoiding their enactment and the better opportunity all of us have to negotiate self-determination, independence and inter-dependence for all of us.

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