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Ecology, Economics, and Delayed Gratification

2020.02.01 by Bookscrounger 2 Comments
Plant growing from a pile of coins.

Economics fails to explain why Homo economicus struggles with delayed gratification, but ecology can offer some historical perspectives.

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Posted in: Biology, Books Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Darwin Dada, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Wisdom

Starting Wars: Anger Manipulation

2020.01.07 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment
Starting Wars: Statue of Liberty with a Mushroom Cloud

Starting wars and anger manipulation benefit the powerful:  politically, economically, and ideologically.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Trump

Prologue, Part I: Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths

2019.06.18 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Detail from cover of the book, 'Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths' showing a severed head and a bloody scimitar-like blade

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths: the ‘great men’ of history were really vicious criminals whose rule was, indeed, ‘the banality of evil’.

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Posted in: Odds & Ends Tagged: Kings Conquerors Psychopaths

Kings, Conquerors: The Moderate Voice Interview

2019.06.01 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Banner for The Moderate Voice, a political website

“The term ‘must-read’ has been soooooo overused. But Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths is a must-read… must-own… and, most of all, a must-ponder.”
—Joe Gandelman

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Posted in: Books, Politics Tagged: Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Partisan Politics

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths Wins Two International Awards for Nonfiction

2019.05.21 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths, wins two Next Generation Indie Book Awards

Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths wins two international book awards for nonfiction from the Next Generation Indie Book Awards, as a winner in ‘Current Events/Social Change’, and a finalist in ‘Historical Nonfiction’.

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Posted in: Books Tagged: Kings Conquerors Psychopaths

Kicking the Can Down the Road, Cementing Cans

2019.03.04 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Kicking the can down the road, cementing cans.

When citizens want one thing and lobbyists want another, often we end up kicking the can down the road; we should be cementing cans after they’re kicked.

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Posted in: Medicine, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Partisan Politics

The Problem with Historical Context

2019.02.13 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Detail of Delaroche's 'Napoléon abdiquant à Fontainebleau' ("Napoléon abdicated in Fontainebleau"),

To understand our past, historical context is a critical starting point. But to design the future, it cannot also be the endpoint.

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Posted in: Knowledge Tagged: fundamentalism, Hammer Thinking, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths

‘Talk Louisiana’ on WRKF, ‘From Bayou to Beltway’ on KRVS

2019.02.02 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
Join author Joseph N. Abraham, MD on NPR affiliates WRKF & KRVS, talking politics and discussing his book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths.

Hear Joseph N. Abraham on ‘Talk Louisiana’ and ‘Bayou to Beltway,’ on NPR’s WRKF & KRVS, talking politics and his book, Kings, Conquerors, Psychopaths.

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Sabotaging Children: Living on the Edge

2016.03.28 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

In the past when we were living on the edge, sabotaging children was the only prudent course of action.

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Posted in: Education, Politics Tagged: Civilizing Evolution, Intellectual Abuse, Kings Conquerors Psychopaths, Liberal and Conservative, Teaching

The My Lai Massacre

2016.01.12 by Bookscrounger 1 Comment

The My Lai Massacre reveals the reality of warfare: slaughtering civilians deters resistance.

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Posted in: Politics Tagged: Kings Conquerors Psychopaths
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