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Saints Will Tribulate
While the roots of our current brand of conservative versus progressive politics are grounded in the social mythology of Germanic tribal types — masculine versus feminine — it’s not that simple any more. The Cult has taken advantage of this … Continue reading
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Witness in a New World
Social dominance or effective leadership is always contextual. It requires the leader be aware of the contextual nuances of what people take for granted so that they convince others to follow. If folks don’t follow, you aren’t a leader. It … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, communion, computers, culture, epistemology, global communications network, Network Civilization, social boundaries, spirituality, survival, western civilization
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Friday Extra: We Call It “Solipsism”
It’s a tough game when you apply individual psychological assessments to whole nations. But if I offered you a government document and asked you to read the tone via standard psychological assessments, you’d get the idea. It’s not as if … Continue reading
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Tagged government, government policy, idolatry, oppression, propaganda, psychological assessments, psychology, war
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Laugh or Not?
It’s blasphemy. Having a sense of humor is a universal human trait, but so is shame. Thus, what we find funny may be highly influenced by culture, but it will always be moderated through our individual personality. Most of us … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, moral consciousness, psychology, religion, sense of humor
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Drug War and Propaganda
How many people reading this today can remember where you were when JFK was killed? If you are old enough to remember that, it’s just possible you might remember when the Gulf War started and our official involvement in Iraq … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Holy Drug Warriors, law enforcement agencies, oppression, politics, propaganda
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Just a Nutcase
So here’s what I see coming for Windows users: Windows 10 will be a buy-once-update-forever kind of thing. You won’t get much choice on updates and feature changes. If you have it, you have to accept anything MS wants to … Continue reading
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Tagged computers, corporations, coverup, disasters, government, oppression, religion, resistance, VM
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The Linux Oligarchy
Linux is a product of the technology oligarchy. Were this not so, I wouldn’t even mention Linux — ever. I don’t belong to the technology elite, but they aren’t alien to me. At the critical juncture in my life when … Continue reading
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Tagged business, computers, culture, economics, Hacker Culture, linux, resistance, technology
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Elements of Human Nature: Systemic Overview
My previous post on human nature is a little dated and takes the counselor’s moral viewpoint. This post takes advantage of my continuing research and shifts to a systems approach. The manifested behavior of humans at large sometimes needs a … Continue reading
A Christian Heart Is Deeply Cynical
On the one hand, rational objectivity is a myth. It’s a myth in the one most important sense that you’ll never see evidence of it when humans make decisions on behalf of others, that thing we call “government policy.” The … Continue reading
How Much in Charge?
I’m strictly hands-off on most things. Merely noting that the academic discipline of Comparative Civilizations is often a political boondoggle says so much about our Western Civilization. You would think that folks recognized there is no way to be truly … Continue reading
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Tagged ANE, civilization, government, history, human reason, intellect, oppression, philosophy, propaganda, psychology, western biases, western civilization
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