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It’s Not Me, It’s You: Blaming the Public’s “Perception of the Economy”

April 26, 2024

It’s Not Me, It’s You: Blaming the Public’s “Perception of the Economy” If you think you spent twenty years being ripped off while a generation of rent-seeking scam artists was showered with public subsidies, experts agree: your “perception” needs correcting You only think eggs cost too much. “People are really tying Bidenomics and their perception […]

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The Self-Genocide of the West

December 27, 2018

The Self-Genocide of the West Stephen Cohen and I are branded “Russian dupes” and “Putin agents,” because we object to the highly orchestrated and false portrayal of Russia as a threat to the West, a portrayal that is leading to war. The purpose of this orchestration is to prevent President Trump or any future president […]

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Syrian War For Dummies – Three Versions

March 17, 2018

Syrian War For Dummies – Three Versions As the Ghouta campaign continues to unfold, we should expect that both politicians and mainstream media will give us – in the words of philosopher and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr – “necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications” intended to shape our perceptions of events. It goes without saying that such […]

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The (Mind) Games People Play

February 9, 2018

THE (MIND) GAMES PEOPLE PLAY Fair warning! This is a long and dense read and not intended for the faint-hearted While most of us would accept there are two states of mind when it comes to perceiving reality, belief and disbelief, I posit there are three. And this third state of mind, the suspension of […]

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A Failure of Imagination

October 26, 2015

A Failure of Imagination Simply stated we create our own reality……although it is a ‘reality’ strictly limited to the range and scope of our beliefs and imagination. Thus if we can conceive of a world no different than what we believe actually exists, which in turn is based solely upon our present day (deliberately) limited […]

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Climate Change: a clash of epistemologies

October 2, 2015

Climate Change: a clash of epistemologies In a post published earlier this year, Ugo Bardi explains that the debate on climate change is going nowhere due to a fundamental incommunicability – or a ‘clash’ as he calls it – between different types of epistemologies over climate change. In his post he refers to some exchange […]

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Darwin’s Casino

July 9, 2015

Darwin’s Casino Our age has no shortage of curious features, but for me, at least, one of the oddest is the way that so many people these days don’t seem to be able to think through the consequences of their own beliefs. Pick an ideology, any ideology, straight across the spectrum from the most devoutly […]

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The coming “tipping point” of the climate perception: enough to solve the problem?

June 16, 2015

The coming “tipping point” of the climate perception: enough to solve the problem? Recognizing the existence of world scale problems takes time. For instance, the above Google “Ngram” search show that world hunger was not recognized as a serious problem until relatively recent times. However, starting in the 1960s, considerable efforts were dedicated to increasing […]

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A Kept Culture | Two Ice Floes

November 3, 2014

A Kept Culture | Two Ice Floes. My thinking on a variety of subjects has changed over time and I expect my understanding will continue to evolve as new information, knowledge and propaganda enters my orbit. Contrary to popular belief this is a good thing because it means my mindset is not as static and […]

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