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- Bjorn Lomborg Getting the facts straight
- Brian Wang's NextBigFuture Optimistic Science & Technology Future Website
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- Matt Ridley Rational Optimism
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Category Archives: Ideology
Simple Solution to Political Violence in America?
A recent article at the Fabius Maximus website examines recent left-instigated violence in Charlottesville, Evergreen College, Berkeley, Portland OR, and several other locations. The common thread linking these violent episodes of political violence is a vicious leftist intent to deny … Continue reading
Posted in Groupthink, Ideology, Media, Politics, Propaganda
Tagged Groupthink, leftist idiocy
4 Comments
Is the George Soros Gang Trying to Incite a US Civil War?
Shortly after the 2016 US elections which placed Donald Trump in the White House, George Soros met with a cabal of like-minded disaffected dementors to devise a path of destruction for the incoming Trump administration. It is not that these … Continue reading
Posted in Groupthink, Ideology, Politics
Tagged leftist idiocy, Politics
Venezuela: The True Face of Bernie Sanders
Venezuela is the true face of civil collapse. Compared to that socialist paradise, the US is the picture of domestic tranquility. 5 Years Ago Bernie Sanders Said that Venezuela is the True American Dream In an essay lamenting what he … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Groupthink, Ideology, Politics, Propaganda, Venezuela
Tagged Groupthink, Idiocracy, leftist idiocy
Delusions, Obsessions, and Ideologies in the Age of Trump
Delusions are unfounded but tightly held beliefs. Everyone is prone to forming delusions — in fact it can be said that human life is built upon systems of delusions, depending upon one’s upbringing. Ordinary delusions, as opposed to pathological delusions, … Continue reading
Posted in Everything You Think You Know Just Ain't So, Groupthink, Ideology, Knowledge, Philosophy
Tagged Groupthink
Idiots Think in Words: A Global Revolt Against Pseudo-Experts
Human Intelligence Manifests in Multiple Ways I often say that a mathematician thinks in numbers, a lawyer in laws, and an idiot thinks in words. These words don’t amount to anything. I think you have to draw the conclusion that … Continue reading
Posted in Cognition, Groupthink, Ideology, IQ
Tagged IQ, propaganda media
Is it Time to Burn Universities to the Ground?
. . . it’s time to burn the universities to the ground … and start over from scratch. __ Robert Tracinski, Speaking Figuratively How leftist professors and administrators are destroying young minds Peter Thiel Exposes Corruptness of University System The … Continue reading
Destroying These Threats Before They Destroy the Human Future
The Three Faces of Challenge Three powerful forces seek to dominate — or conquer — today’s world. Each of the three should be considered deadly enemies to an abundant and expansive human future. The tactics and strategies used to meet … Continue reading
Privileged, Arrogant Silicon Valley Goes Half Cocked
Deranged Supporters of Hillary also Sore Losers Silicon Valley calls for secession from America Tech CEOs and executives supported Hillary Clinton’s campaign most generously with financial largesse and copious verbiage. One might expect some degree of maturity in people who … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Google, Hillary Clinton, Ideology, Politics, Technology
Tagged Politics
1 Comment
The Government Is Not the Country
My kind of loyalty was to one’s country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal … Continue reading
Posted in Government, Groupthink, Ideology, Philosophy, Politics
Tagged Alternative Government, Google, Political Philosophy
Protesting Against Reality: Leftists Resent Real World Feedback
The recent American election was a peaceful backlash against the US government’s ruinous and intrusive unconstitutional policies. Leftwing activist groups cannot tolerate this feedback — this reality — so they are taking to the streets in violent protest, marching toward … Continue reading
Posted in Blacks and crime, Crime, Government, Hillary Clinton, Ideology, Politics, Racial Myths, University
Tagged race and crime, race war, Swamp Draining
1 Comment
Ideology and the Dangerous Child
A child is born with innate reflexes, instincts, predispositions, aptitudes, and limitations. When confronted with the outside world, the child begins to assimilate experiences of the world into his internal milieu — and he is permanently changed, every single day. … Continue reading
Posted in Dangerous Child, Ideology, Philosophy
Tagged Dangerous Child, Infrastructure, Philosophy
2 Comments
Cleaning Up Politics: Return of the Duel!
Dueling would confer consequences onto all the ugly, dishonest, uncouth, untrue, and defamatory things people say about you or your family. Yes, some politicians might be struck down if we allowed this ancient combat to reemerge in contemporary society. But … Continue reading
Russian Government Prepares for Hardship, Decline, Unrest
Did No Russian Die in Recent Years? The only way that the latest Russian government figures about increases in life expectancy can be true is if one assumes that not one of them died in recent years, an obvious absurdity … Continue reading
Climate Apocalypse Cult Hijacks Clean Earth Movement
Everyone loves pristine places: Clean air, clear water, blue skies. No one likes pollution such as one sees in Beijing, Moscow, or Mexico City. Everyone wants to see a clean Earth. So how did the “clean Earth movement” get so … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Folly of Prediction, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Ideology
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, Green Idiocy
2 Comments
“Climate Heretics” vs. the Climate Apocalypse Cult
The modern “climate apocalypse” movement is bringing a cult of fanaticism back to Paris. And like all cults, it has its heretics that it would like to burn, behead, and mutilate. One of the top climate heretics, a scientist who … Continue reading
Universities? Burn Them to the Ground
This is higher ed’s time for choosing. If this is the new purpose of the universities—to nurture a crop of activists trained at whipping up angry mobs, and a generation of college graduates conditioned to submit to those mobs—then there … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Government, Ideology, Media, satire, University
3 Comments
Climate Apocalypse Crusade Stymied by Inconvenient Hiatus
The Map is Not the Territory. The Model is Not the Reality In order for climate science to be settled, there are many requirements. I will list four for now, although I am sure you can think of many more. … Continue reading
Posted in Climate, Green Quagmire, Groupthink, Ideology
Tagged Climate Apocalypse, Climate Cult, Green Corruption, Green Idiocy
2 Comments
Is the Dark Enlightenment in Danger of Becoming Another Ideology?
In a very real sense, a philosophy is a way of life which may incorporate but does not embody a political agenda. On the other hand, ideology is usually based in theory, the precepts of which often have little or … Continue reading
Posted in Dark Enlightenment, Dysgenics, Ideology, Idiocracy, Philosophy, Propaganda, Utopia
Tagged Political Philosophy
7 Comments
Anarchy in Africa and Islamic World Aiming Toward Europe
Across large parts of Africa and the larger Islamic world, anarchy flows like a bloody river. From Libya to Syria to Iraq to Nigeria, all pretence of order is collapsing, with refugees flooding all routes heading into Europe. Much of … Continue reading
Posted in Coming Anarchy, Dysgenics, Europe, Ideology, Islam's Bloody Borders
Tagged anarchy, Europe, islam
1 Comment
You Believe the Science? What “Science?”
Science fraud is apparently rampant, and those who arrogantly declare “I believe the science!!!” will have to do better than that in the future, if they wish to be taken seriously. The website “Retraction Watch” is a useful location for … Continue reading
Distinctions that Make a Difference
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” -Kurt Vonnegut Almost everyone wants to be strong and independent, free from external manipulation and indoctrination. Part of the process of shielding ourselves … Continue reading
The Art of Peacefully Overthrowing Governments
Peaceful overthrow of an established government is an art, not a science. If you want to bring about a kindly revolution, you must know the nation and its people intimately, and act accordingly. When the government of Iceland was peacefully … Continue reading
Posted in Future, Government, History, Ideology, Technology
Tagged 3D Printing, Revolution
4 Comments
Hope and Change vs. The American Dream
Argentina’s government has a head start on Obama, but Obama seems determined to catch up. Obamacare set to obliterate over 2 million US jobs over few years. The real toll is likely to be far worse, once the cascading catastrophe … Continue reading
Tyranny vs. Opportunity: Decline or Prosperity
Under US President Obama, the US continues to decline in the global rankings of economic freedom and opportunity. The U.S. is the only country to have recorded a loss of economic freedom each of the past seven years. __PersonalLiberty http://personalliberty.com/2014/01/15/heritage-the-wall-street-journal-bemoan-rapid-decline-in-u-s-economic-freedom-under-obama/ … Continue reading
