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Sunday, February 03, 2019

Murder

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Murder doesn't care what you name it.
Sunday, December 23, 2018

Internet Censorship

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The Ultimate Guide to Internet Censorship is a useful and even practical primer on the subject. Absent outright censorship, counter-propaga...
Saturday, December 01, 2018

Suicide

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From Suicide and the chimera of American prosperity : If you are the sort of person who needs the Centers for Disease Control and Preven...
Saturday, October 06, 2018

Blip Thinking

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From The Baffler : For God’s Sake, Do Nothing Blip thinking is also exculpatory; it exempts its users from thinking too deeply about h...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

14 Years and Counting

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See Welcome
Saturday, August 25, 2018

White House Newsletter

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From I've analyzed every White House newsletter since 2009, and Trump's are a propaganda machine obsessed with positive news covera...
Friday, July 06, 2018

Nothing

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Nothingnees is not an empty construct--it just looks that way.
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]...