It seems in the internet age that propaganda has been completely democratized, and is no longer completely in the preview of government agencies and secret extra-governmental conspiracies.
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Inclusion
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How many other person’s visions of the future are you willing to close off to realize your own?
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EVOLUTION
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The human brain consumes twenty percent of the calories consumed by the entire body. Thinking, in evolutionary terms, is both vitally important and useful, and an incredibly expensive process.
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THE INTEGRAL
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Only individuals operate at the cusp of their human development.
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INSTITUTIONS
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This is the nature of institutions: they operate no higher than the root mean square of the moral, ethical, and legal development of their operators.
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A Reply to Peter Gleick
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I was following the thread on controversy over the recent Lewandowsky et al paper, over at Lucia Liljegren’s blog TheBlackboard entitled: Multiple IPs, Hide My Ass and the Lewandowsky survey, when I noticed commentor Bob Koss posted links to a Twitter exchange between Lucia and Peter Gleick – yes – that Peter Gleick. You can follow the links yourself.
https://twitter.com/PeterGleick/status/241606199706013697
https://twitter.com/lucialiljegren/status/241603594212737025
Gleick’s tweet was:
Irony? Coincidence? When I downloaded the NYTimes Eastwood convention story, the ad on the page was about dementia.
Since we don’t do Twitter around here I’ll just have to post my reply to the Gleickster here:
Coincidence? Of course not. As we all know its a kind of metaphysical law of the universe that confirmation of whatever your deepest most paranoid fears and biases are will automatically appear before your eyes.
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Excuses Excuses
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I cannot believe it, both of my editors collapsing under deadline pressure. Visin is turning his article on Black Swan Theory into a book and is whining that he needs to do more research, and Atani is whinging that he is waiting on NetFlix for a re-view of the movie before he completes his magnum-opus. So, I am now throwing Uræd, our legal counsel and editor in the Economics, and Public Policy & Law departments into fill the breach with his latest contribution to economic theory.
The Coraline Meme 