Humiliation Ritualized, in Childhood and Politics
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My experience in academia and many other realms of life has shown me that the desire to humiliate others and thus putatively raise one’s cache of social capital—an... Read more.
The Compulsive Delusions of the Imperial Mind
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Perhaps it is time to admit that much of what occurred during the acute phase of the Covid crisis was, in many ways, the culmination of a long multi-decade process... Read more.
Not Religious? Might Want to Check on that Again
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Since time immemorial super-elites have worked assiduously to convince the second-tier elites and the masses further below that their highly class-specific “victories”... Read more.
Infantilized R Us
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A disease that leaves 99.85 percent or more people perfectly alive as an “unprecedented threat” to humanity allegedly requiring palliative measures that just... Read more.
The Urge to Control Others
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Someone who believes that hearing or reading opinions that do not precisely ratify their particular way of viewing self and other is tantamount to physical harm... Read more.
Who Ultimately Wins in a Society of Flash Mob Moralists?
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While it may make a lot of people feel good about themselves at the moment, it will only further corrode trust in the rule of law— a shift that always favors the... Read more.
The School of Friendship
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What passes today for ideological convictions, in our supposedly terminally divided country, are nothing of the sort, but rather labels to which many quickly and... Read more.
What Happened to the Idea of Progress?
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Like people, paradigms get tired, mostly because the humans that work within them, as Kuhn suggested, increasingly lose touch with the problems that originally elicited... Read more.
The Shame of the Covidians
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Understanding all this makes it easier to think of those who provided the vociferous support for the government-imposed destruction of freedom of association, commercial... Read more.
Doctors Who Live in Fear and Promote it in Others
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Fear is a ubiquitous and essential part of the human experience. Indeed, a good case could be made that it is the driving force in the lives of many, if not most... Read more.
You’re Aggressive, but I’m Not
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As every great religious tradition reminds us, the proclivity to do ill to others is vividly present in everyone during the entire course of our lives on earth,... Read more.
The Deeper Truth about Speed Bumps
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These are classic “controlling practices” designed to gradually leach from each and every one of us—and most infuriatingly those not yet fully socialized—what... Read more.