Author Archives: Richard Guzman

We Wear the Mask – Part 2

Posted on January 8, 2021 by Richard Guzman

I gave this talk nearly 31 years ago at a professional psychology conference, where I urged minorities to keep wearing masks.  For more detail and context, read the introduction to PART 1 of the talk.  Part 1 ended with James … Continue reading →

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We Wear the Mask – Part 1

Posted on December 28, 2020 by Richard Guzman

I gave the talk below at the Forest Institute for Professional Psychology’s first annual Cross Cultural Conference.  My thoughts weren’t exactly celebratory, nor did they seem to fit a psychology atmosphere, which usually asks us to lower our masks and … Continue reading →

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Magic and Consumption at the End of History – Part 2

Posted on December 17, 2020 by Richard Guzman

This is PART 2 of a talk I gave in 2004 at a humanities conference in Prato, Italy.  For more context on that talk as well as its eerie relevance to some of the crises we face today—including the world-wide … Continue reading →

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