…attempts to lock systems down inadvertently create the loopholes and logics of their own failure…
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A political stance is really just a way of sharing with the world what you think that people really are…
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Words: Mistaken Identities
In a world such as this where we all have our guards up most of the time in response to the more bleak realities of life, we would still do well to remember that goodness, sincerity and honesty still exists within others and within ourselves…
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Cult of Personality
The cult of the leader, of single isolated points of power and control and is an inevitable consequence and inversion of a fundamental social and psychological misunderstanding…
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Facebook Tackles Fake News
Facebook provides an attempted technical solution in this opening salvo of the online Truth Wars…
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Voting Against Your Own Best Interests
A wily political tactician may influence or deceive through emotional hypnotic suggestion to an unwitting neuropsychological susceptibility…
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Online: Political Polarisation ?
The fault, as it goes, lies not in the stars but in ourselves…
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Empty World
Some number of years ago now, I remember witnessing a filmic representation of something written by Charles Bukowski, its title eludes me. This was perhaps characteristically, miserably bizzarre and featured some peculiar and wicked strand of thought concerning a discovery that the narrator was the only real person and everyone else he encountered were soul-less, […]
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Enigma: Dissolution and Emptiness
The psychological self is itself so deeply intertwined with the world from which it accumulates its ideas and opinions that it is in itself actually profoundly empty and void…
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Minds: Individual and Collective
Have you ever considered that the myriad sorrows and insecurities we all share are really not ours at all?
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Contexts: Conflict and Collaboration
Ours is a world in which there exists immense and unremitting uncertainty and doubt…
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Rhetorical Poverty: Revisited
That an opinion has been expressed may be a fact but that the opinion necessarily represents a fact (or truth) does not logically follow…
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