Psychology ⋆ Brownstone Institute

Those Who Cry “Far Right” Have No Idea What’s Happening in Dublin

David Thunder December 1, 2023 Government, Psychology, Society 4 minute read

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You might think that a government faced with a barbaric public stabbing of schoolchildren and an unprecedented night of rioting in its capital city would extend condolences to the victims, take a deep breath, and try to figure out how a city managed to spiral out of control on its watch. But instead, Thursday’s riots in Dublin were met by a shallow, one-dimensional analysis by all of the key authorities involved: to blame the “far right.”

Counseling a Gaslit Nation

Rev. John F. Naugle November 27, 2023 Government, Psychology, Society 4 minute read

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How does a nation respond when the abusers are politicians from both parties and nearly the entirety of the administrative state and legacy media?

Can Thanksgiving Traditions Survive a Four-Year Pause?

Mark Oshinskie November 23, 2023 Philosophy, Psychology, Society 6 minute read

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On Thanksgiving, we’re supposed to disregard that which hasn’t gone well and focus on that which has; even if the list of what has gone well is much shorter than that which hasn’t. If you’re sitting in a warm place, forking tasty food into your own mouth, and are surrounded by people whose names you remember, you’re comparatively blessed.

Beware the Autism-Friendly City

Sinead Murphy November 22, 2023 Psychology, Public Health, Society 16 minute read

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Let us not forget that as we inched forwards like automata, self-conscious and humiliated, we gradually ceased to make eye contact with our fellows, engaged in little to no verbal interaction and found it increasingly difficult to make a friend – those very characteristics that 6 in 10 Irish people associate with autism.

A Doctor Cannot Give his Professional Opinion?

Armando Simón October 12, 2023 Psychology, Public Health 9 minute read

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The authorities were wrong in every single aspect of the pandemic: the number of deaths, the number of deaths predicted, the lockdown, the masks, the faux-vaccine, the treatments, the medications, the collateral damage, the refusal to give treatment to the unvaccinated, the ethics. The covid fiasco and the resulting censorship and persecution will go down as one of the classic cases to be taught in medical schools for decades to come.

We Are All Pretending There Is No Emergency

Richard Kelly August 28, 2023 Psychology 4 minute read

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Perhaps we all know what just happened, but we are all pretending that it didn’t, from one of two perspectives – either pretending that everything is normal while actively suppressing one’s suspicion that it isn’t; or knowing everything is very very bad and actively disguising that knowledge with plausible cover stories when we encounter the other perspective.

Welcome to the Dying Earth

Haley Kynefin August 26, 2023 Philosophy, Psychology 28 minute read

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There are always forces in this world that pull us down into the muck and mire. In our day-to-day pursuit of happiness, desire, entertainment, and survival, it is easy to forget what we have the potential to become. It is easy to get lost in technicalities, in ego trips and in reactionary indignation. If we are the victims of atrocities, it is all the easier to seek our justice in retaliation, viciousness, and brutal revenge. But in a world where everybody sees themselves as the primary and true victim, where does that ultimately leave us?

The Relevance of Milgram’s Experiments in Today’s World

Armando Simón August 10, 2023 Psychology 14 minute read

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Whether in America, Australia, Ireland, Germany, or Italy, Western Civilization is under the onslaught by totalitarians on a number of different fronts, and to date they are winning hands down. Having lived in a totalitarian regime, I (and others) recognize all the signs. Frankly, the future is bleak.

Will They Ever Come Clean About the Damage They Caused?

Mark Oshinskie August 5, 2023 Policy, Psychology 9 minute read

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The Machiavellians who concocted the Covid response and the media who sold it don’t regret what they did. It served their political, social and economic purposes. Thus, the truth can now be publicly admitted, though not fully. Denying some aspects of reality allows the Coronamanic to deceive many and to think of themselves as good, smart people for having supported lockdowns, school closures, masks, tests and shots.

The Creation of the 25-Year-Old Child

Daniel Nuccio July 29, 2023 Psychology 14 minute read

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By attempting to cocoon both adolescents and young adults to protect them from bad choices, responsibility, and real-world consequences for their decisions until they reach a scientifically defined age at which they can enter the world fully mature and unsupervised, we will in fact be protracting their immaturity and delaying their development into the responsible adults we are waiting for them to become.

Why did Mental Health Professionals Go Along with Lockdowns?

Daniel Nuccio July 21, 2023 Psychology, Public Health 6 minute read

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Occasionally there was a suggestion that socially-distanced outdoor interactions might be acceptable or that phased school reopenings could be attempted. But, by and large, very few mental health professionals, like so many people from so many other fields, had the courage to present any real challenge to these policies despite knowing the damage they wrought.

Why Are Intelligent People So Easily Tricked?

Laura Dodsworth July 20, 2023 Psychology 5 minute read

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People reach the conclusions they want to reach, and then post-rationalise it – but smarter people are better at coming up with these justifications. To paraphrase George Orwell, some things are so absurd that only an intellectual could believe them.