Category Archives: social sciences

Political Critical Mass

Posted on October 5, 2015 by ehurst

What kind of madness maintains the bloody tension between the State of Israel and the Palestinians? What perverted sickness keeps generation after generation locked in the open air prisons of Gaza and the West Bank? A great many Christian Zionists … Continue reading →

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Saints Will Tribulate

Posted on September 23, 2015 by ehurst

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

Posted on September 9, 2015 by ehurst

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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Friday Extra: We Call It “Solipsism”

Posted on July 10, 2015 by ehurst

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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Laugh or Not?

Posted on June 22, 2015 by ehurst

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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Drug War and Propaganda

Posted on May 31, 2015 by ehurst

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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Just a Nutcase

Posted on May 15, 2015 by ehurst

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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The Linux Oligarchy

Posted on May 8, 2015 by ehurst

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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Elements of Human Nature: Systemic Overview

Posted on April 24, 2015 by ehurst

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 →

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A Christian Heart Is Deeply Cynical

Posted on April 24, 2015 by ehurst

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 →

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