Category: Political
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Fear of Learning (copied from a Twitter Thread of Mine)
Advertisements Fear of learning, especially the kind of learning that makes a human being less susceptible to manipulative indoctrination, is at the core of radically Conservative state governments’ school curriculum policies. It is unsubtle anti-intellectualism. The reasons are clear. To the @GOP and the Radical and Religious Right movements within you (to include Dominionist politics): You have […]
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Headings for a Non-Mathematical Paper in Progress
Advertisements It is, in fact, political. The Manipulation of a Nation How America’s Prosperous Established a De Facto Ruling Class, Corrupted Government and Politics, and Got Churches, Broadcasters, and Internet/Web Media to Help By J. Calvin Smith, jcsbimp.com Introduction: Where Are We, and How Did Manipulation Get Us Here? Some History: Manifest Destiny and the […]
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Newsflash: Prosperous Propagandists Thrive on Exacerbating (Even Justified) Alarm
Advertisements Propagandists thrive on alarm, and on the fear and anger that come from that alarm. It hardly matters their ideology, although one can usefully note which ideologies and social classes are more likely to perpetrate, or to fall victim to, the more pervasive and manipulative propaganda. I thought of this as I was considering […]
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Your Daily Rant From Me
Advertisements Shrewd and powerful forces among well funded pastors, pundits, and politicians perfected The Art of the Deal, i.e., The Royal Scam, handed down from ideological ancestors who gave us Manifest Destiny and kept the notion of individual human dignity and equal rights hobbled by Rich White Landowners and Industrialists for far too long. Not […]
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A Proposed Letter
Advertisements I hope to print out something along these lines, in many copies, and send it to societal leaders of many different stripes, all politically influential in America, in the coming weeks. Methods, Motives, Manipulation and Morality An Open Letter Appealing to Leaders of the United States Government, As Well As America’s Political, Societal/Cultural, and […]
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Viral Ideas Spread Regardless of Merit. It Is a Societal Obligation to Fight and Discredit the Bad Ones.
Advertisements Sometimes it’s showing love to your neighbor when you point out to them – actually demonstrate in a way that they can understand – how they have been manipulated to accept and spread corrupt ideas and politics, and to support candidates whose actions are destructive and ignorant. Such a neighbor will, it is true, […]
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My Answer to a Friend’s Question: When Did the War on Ignorance Become a War on Christianity?
Advertisements When scientific thought and mathematical logic became ways to perceive the world and demonstrate its principles reliably, I think some of those in power, who wanted to preserve increase their power and prosperity, but who also based that power and prosperity on deceiving or exploiting others, saw a danger in too much good thinking, […]
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Beware theocracy.
Advertisements Beware creeping theocracy that seems to have myopia toward the democratic dangers of plutocracy and oligarchy, or at least seems to equate money and power with Divine favor and the privilege of a weightier voice than that of the average human being in affairs of the State. Follow the money that pads the pockets […]
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A Declaration of Interdependence
Advertisements When, as the course of Human Events continues, those events include not only greater diversity of ideas and identities and ways of thinking and being, but also greater and stronger feelings of some human groups and organizations about those different ways of thinking and being, a decent respect to the opinions and states of […]
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Dare to Ask.
Advertisements The challenging points of view and the tough questions of soundly reasoning citizens can be, in a practical sense, the forms of free speech and open, honest communication most valuable to any system of government, and especially one based on representation and democracy. We do not know where good, new ideas or important questions […]