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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

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

The 10 Books Everyone Should Read

2017.12.13 by Bookscrounger 5 Comments

What are the 10 books that every well educated person should read? It depends on the definition of ‘well educated’.

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Posted in: Books, Education, Knowledge Tagged: Intellectual Abuse, Lifelong Learning, Teaching, Wisdom

Shabby Elegance

2017.11.29 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

We never consider that our opulent luxury costs us much more than money; it robs us of our time, it robs us of lives. Expensive things need to be cleaned, insured, repaired, carefully maintained and protected – and then, after a decade or two, much of it must be replaced and updated.

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Posted in: Knowledge Tagged: Wisdom

Dead, Dead, Dead: The Thanatocracy

2017.10.08 by Bookscrounger 3 Comments

Constitutional fundamentalists, like other fundamentalists, yield thought and free will in worship and submission to the dead authority of the thanatocracy, a system that is dead, dead, dead.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Constitutional Fundamentalism, Liberal and Conservative, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Wisdom

Civilizing Pottery

2017.09.18 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Pottery is impervious to decay, even when submerged in water or soil for thousands of years. That property is essential; without the invention of pottery, civilization and the modern world would not exist.

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Posted in: Knowledge Tagged: Civilizing Evolution

Ridiculing Neo-Nazis

2017.08.28 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

Ridiculing neo-Nazis and other extremists is a powerful tool, but one that can also backfire badly. It is imperative that we offer carrots with the sticks.

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Posted in: Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Anger Mongering, Football Mentality, Hammer Thinking, Partisan Politics, Tolerance, Trump, Wisdom

Demagogues vs the Democracy

2017.08.11 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

To understand who we are today, we need to understand kings, conquerors, and their dysfunctions, and what life looked like in their kingdoms. It wasn’t pretty.

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Posted in: Books, Knowledge, Politics Tagged: Small Evolution

What to Say to a Rape Victim

2017.08.03 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment
What to say to a rape victim, to someone who struggles with violaton and shame

What do you say to the rape victim, what can you tell her that might help her begin the process of healing? After 30 years in the emergency room, this is my best attempt.

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Posted in: Education, Knowledge Tagged: Medicine, Wisdom

Human Genetic Behavior

2017.07.31 by Bookscrounger Leave a Comment

…And this is why I have foolishly chosen to discuss the taboos of genetic behavior, and ethnic and sexual norms; not to chain people to stereotypes, but to free us all from them. We must recognize our genetic tendencies in order to design around them, and past them; as Bertolt Brecht noted, “When there are obstacles, the shortest distance between two points is a crooked line.”

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Posted in: Biology, Education, Knowledge, Medicine Tagged: Lifelong Learning, Sociobiology, Wisdom
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