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Friday, April 13, 2018

Melancholia

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Melancholia is the brain's way of saying things are not so great.
Saturday, January 06, 2018

Trust

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Trust is the glue that binds a society, but can be also hinder or even stop its development if misplaced.
Saturday, May 20, 2017

Conformity

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A nonconformist will often find realization of nonconformist desires by forcing others to conform.  Thus do rebels become dictators.
Sunday, May 07, 2017

Manipulation

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See This Is How Manipulation Is Used in Today’s Product Design for a summary of techniques used to push sales.  These same techniques could...
Wednesday, April 26, 2017

Seldom Defeat

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Defeat is seldom more assured than when self-inflicted. But then what of martyrdom?
Thursday, January 26, 2017

The Dying Days of Liberalism

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Suggested reading: The Dying Days of Liberalism:How Orthodoxy, Professionalism, and Unresponsive Politics Finally Doomed a 19th-century Proj...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017

More on Persuasion Analysis

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See Trump’s Counter-Punch: A Persuasion Tactic .  Learn from the master of propaganda...
Tuesday, January 17, 2017

Emotional Spin

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John Robb offers The Race to Weaponize Empathy to discuss emotional spin as applied to the news (beyond typical marketing).  "[People]...
Monday, January 16, 2017

Persuasion Analysis

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Why Clinton’s Slogans Failed (Hard): A Persuasion Analysis . Worth a read.
Monday, January 09, 2017

Broken

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Being no fan of political parties, I enjoy mocking the losers (and winners, too).  As was true four years ago, I find it is more entertainin...
Friday, January 06, 2017

Images

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An images may comprise/contain multiple symbols, thus making it something different than the sum of its parts.  Relationships are cause and ...
Saturday, December 31, 2016

Sand

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Consciousness is more than just a heap of sand.
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Back At It

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It's been awhile since I've lasted posted but I will be getting back at it soon.  After changing jobs, which may or may not be relat...
Saturday, July 30, 2016

Broken

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Everything is Broken is one of the better written explanation concerning the massive security contained within pretty much every computing ...
Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Political Nihilism

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"Here is the ultimatum of our camp. What can be smashed must be smashed; whatever will stand the blow is sound, what flies into smither...