Saturday, April 09, 2011

The News of the Times

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From Fukushima to Tahrir, the days take on apocalyptic fervor. The last days will come like a thief in the night, Jesus said. For some, Fuk...
Friday, January 29, 2010

Getting to Santa fe

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My first journey to SF in '79. Didn't know not to fly into SF airport. I guess I had figured that I could get a taxi - it was an ai...
Sunday, March 15, 2009

Torture and the Human Image

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Update 3/15/09: The NYTimes has released transcripts of interviews of those tortured at US "black sites." The following published ...

Letter in Support of Shirin Ebadi

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To: Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Ayatollah Shahrudi, Head of the Judiciary Mohammad Khazaee, Ambassador and Per...
Saturday, December 06, 2008

Dick on Ideas That Live Us

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Very interesting short talk by the author Philip K Dick on ideas--"realizing" them, understanding them, and living them. I'm i...
Friday, November 28, 2008

The REAL Maverick: Present Economy worse than Depression

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Be afraid... be very afraid. Unfortunately, I find this man's opinion difficult to believe, since he has not understood Wittgenstein. He...
Sunday, November 23, 2008

Once upon time in the west - Final showdown

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Is Obama the Charles Bronson figure in this film, come to exact vengeance for the rapes, pillaging, and murders perpetrated by Bush and hi...
Friday, November 14, 2008

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I heard several commentators expressing their awe and feelings of transcendence they are experiencing now. The quasi-religious expressions a...
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Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Promises

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The US News & World Report, seen at a newsstand as I waited for the train in Penn Station, read: Promises to Keep." A picture of a ...

ABC News Updated Milgram Video

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Disneyland in Iraq

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I refused to give in to peer pressure and family and child pressure when it came to taking my children to Disneyland or Disney World. While ...

They're Such Nice Boys

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From an article by Conn Hallinan trying to explain why occupations fail : Israeli psychologist Nofer Ishai-Karen and psychology professor Jo...

Henwood on Economic Crisis

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Left economist Doug Henwood and guests on the recent US economic crisis.

One Nation Under Urizen (God)

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Of the primeval Priests assum'd power, When Eternals spurn'd back his religion; And gave him a place in the north, Obscure, shadowy,...

Civilization@Risk

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Is there anything that provides a grimmer testament to human frailty than the Abu Ghraib pictures now available on the web? When you see t...

Driven to Distraction (1)

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What does it mean to be distracted? Are we as Americans more distracted than people from other countries or perhaps than others in different...

Where Does Your Heart Lie?

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Reading the obituaries to my home-bound mother, I discovered the following as part of the final memories of a deceased woman: "She love...

Freud Converts the Masses

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This BBC video, "The Century of the Self," explores how Freud's theories influenced propaganda efforts, especially through hi...

Driven to Distraction (2)

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Are we distracted? Does the outside world distract us from some important truth or reality that we should otherwise be looking at or doing o...

New country (Iraqi song)

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This video is very powerful. It made a big emotional impact on me. I can only imagine how it affects someone living in Iraq who knows what t...

Facing the Animal In Us

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An example of the way that theories of human nature impact our lives and predispose us to see life in a certain way, coinciding with stereot...

Kierkegaard Carnival III

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Welcome to the December 23, 2007 edition of The Kierkegaard Carnival. After a long hiatus, I am proud to present the most recent issue of th...

Left Behind: The Reality Show

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Mike Davis' work on world poverty, "Planet of Slums," is perhaps the most revolutionary work written in the last half-century....

XXXXXX = Freedom in the US of A

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It seems that American citizens must begin to reflect not only about the neighbor/enemy half-way across the world. They should also begin th...

The Genesis of Atheism, on Video and Tape

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The Huge Entity links to a series of videos outlining the history of modern atheism. I say modern atheism, since I think that there are anc...

Conversation wil Dr. Zimbardo

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Interview with Philip Zimbardo about his Stanford experiment on prison torture and its conditions.

Stanford Prison Experiment

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Following up on the Milgram experiments, Zimbardo tried to see how normal people would react to being guards and prisoners. His findings sur...

Asch Conformity Experiment

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Not only are we acculturated/hardwired to follow authority, many also have a strong need to conform.
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New World Order Memory Lane

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In case you forgot, here's a short video ramble down memory lane.

Milgram , the British Remake

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"He was A Policeman; I thought I was Doing What Was Right"

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This seems to contain information that does not appear in the segment that is available at ABCNews. What's interesting about this segmen...

"I'm Sorry, Wrong Answer; 450 Volts" :: Milgram's obedience to authority study: parts 1-5

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A re-creation of the famous study originally done in the '60's. Until recently, no one was authorized to replicate it due to ethica...

War Porn: Occupation, Sex, Prostitution

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Several years ago I linked to articles that report the rise of prostitution among young Iraqi girls . Many of these prostitutes serviced US ...

War Porn II: Invitation to a Beheading

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I share little in common with my father except nightmares and genes. Echoing through the silence of the years during which we have not spoke...
Saturday, November 01, 2008

Secularism, Nothingness, Religion, and the Secret Passwords

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A lot of ethnographic, historical, and sociological evidence shows that when cultural systems decline, social and personal ills appear. You ...
Thursday, October 30, 2008

All That Oil and No Bush in Sight?

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I repost the following in light of arch-conservative Milton Friedman's pronouncement that "of course" the war in Iraq is about...