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Let's talk about mental health

Let's talk about mental health

Il Ponte Magazine
OPINION

Patrícia Beličková, Peter Sterančák

Everybody feels sad from time to time. It is a natural part of human life. As the Danish philosopher and writer Søren Kierkegaard wrote in his book Disease to Death, if we had a real knowledge of man, we would have found that there was never such a person who was not at least a little desperate in some moment during his life.

The age of digital identity: the trap for political action

The age of digital identity: the trap for political action

Il Ponte Magazine
OPINION, POLITICS, SOCIETY

Cade M. Olmstead

It is on social media where the vast majority of political expression is carried out after all. Is this just because of the technology’s widespread popularity or are the digital commons the only place in which one can be public? Is the virtual in our eyes virtually the only option? So much of one’s identity is increasingly tied up into these social media platforms.