"God will not have his work made manifest by cowards." Genuine courage is required to stand apart against the deafening conformity of the cowardly mob. Ask Andrew Sullivan! People are inherently tyrannical. Shared secular delusions: our 21st century religions. God needs the devil; Sapiens need an enemy. Lippmann, the fragility of free speech, and democracy's Achilles Heel: an ignorant "public."
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Saturday, February 29, 2020
Thursday, February 27, 2020
2/27/20 - Conform Or Be Cast Out
Social validation & conformity: the evolutionary default setting. Why choosing intellectual autonomy over the herd is nearly impossible. Also, standing apart in self-reliance, the drifter, and mending holes in the firewall.
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
2/26/20 - Social Media Disease: The Dopamine Drip
"Whoever owns social validation..." Performance addiction and how the masses have become junkies gorging on validation's dopamine stream. How various influencers, including podcasters, have monetized validation mainlining in the name of "brand building". Propaganda, validation, dopamine, and Ellul's "conditioned response." How social momentum works: Tony McAleer on Your Undivided Attention. Also, how ideological boldness is a surefire sign of a propagandee.
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Sunday, February 23, 2020
2/23/20 - "Vladdy Loves Bernie?" Or "It's The Destabilization, Dummy!"
Of course Putin's playing both sides and assisting Bernie in the Democratic primary. It's about agitation, discord, and eroding the public's already fractured belief it itself, not ideology. This is the perfect insurgent agitation storm: who in this country are more divisive than Bernie, AOC, and Trump? The Russians aren't to blame. We are. Also, why Informational Education programs aren't coming, the simple and cynical reason our for-profit media outlets and political "leadership" won't help us immunize ourselves from foreign propaganda, and Walter Lippmann on free speech and why Facebook must eventually take the fall for our unwillingness to tell truth from falsehood. Includes a quick refresher on 2016's multi-pronged disinformation/partitioning campaign as well as a recap on Jacques Ellul's agitation propaganda material regarding the unleashing of hatred. Introducing: The Rant Alert!
Listen to "Your Undivided Attention" here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/
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Friday, February 21, 2020
2/21/20 - Authenticity, The Mask, and The Beast Unleashed
On independent thought, authenticity, social momentum, and permitting redemption. Also, You're not the Elephant Whisperer, let Dumbo feed! Detecting doctrinaires, the Warm Glow of the Herd's Fellowship, manipulative monkeys dancing for their lunch, and a mask, the core, and the id walk into a bar.
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
2/11/20 - Unimpressed Sobriety & Sanity's Touchstone
Toddzilla's latest Message of Hope formally introduces the loyal listener to Mr. Lippmann: a Man of the People! Touched on are Lippmann's "The Phantom Public", his iconoclastic thoughts on technologically pre-historic data overload, emotional detachment, objective reality, the presumed wisdom of We the People™, and democracy's fate. Have a drink first. Also, institutions and trust are dead, a defense of the "elites", and generalists vs. specialists.
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
2/6/20: The Wokeflake Follies
The Iowa Boner, The Rips Heard 'Round the World, and impeachment fails. All by Wednesday. This is the alternative?
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- Scripture, agitation, and The Herd Mind
- Democracy implodes without the public's consensual trust
- The means, ends, and Salem Witches
- Romney, Amash, Manchin, and the Principled Pit of Hell
- Howard Dean says Democrats will challenge November's election
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Saturday, February 1, 2020
2/1/20 - Criminal Conformity & The Beautiful Mutant
"Imitation is suicide." How independent thought gets smothered in infancy, the need to belong: why standing apart from the impaired herd is not only hard, it runs against our social and evolutionary grain. Also, collective and self-delusions protecting us from unpleasant discoveries that might destroy our notions of being special, divine, or even "good."
Listen to "Your Undivided Attention" here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/
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Listen to "Your Undivided Attention" here: https://humanetech.com/podcast/
ALSO:
- Tending to personal and commercial attachments
- How political and marketing swine manipulate attachments via identity
- Meditation and Buddhist philosophy as tools to disconnect
- Blank Slatists: Beware
- Emerson's Self-Reliance: read it.
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