Sam Vaknin's Articles in Society

  • Why do We Celebrate Birthdays
    Why do we celebrate birthdays? What is it that we are toasting? Is it the fact that we have survived another year against many odds? Are we marking the progress we have made, our cumulative achievements and possessions? Is a birthday the expression of hope sprung eternal to live another year?
  • The Familiar Gone Awry
    In this nightmarish world of ours even the erstwhile comfortingly familiar has gone awry and menacing.
  • Ethical Relativism and Absolute Taboos
    Taboos regulate our sexual conduct, race relations, political institutions, and economic mechanisms - virtually every realm of our life.
  • Cannibalism and Human Sacrifice
    Cannibalism (more precisely, anthropophagy) is an age-old tradition that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is far from extinct.

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