Have you ever been grilled by little kids asking the question, “Why?” Why is the sky blue? Why does Heather have two moms? Why are you going to work? Why do you need money? Before you know it they have you questioning basic social values you never even thought about. That’s why right-wing Americans attack […]
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With the data becoming public attesting to the poor performance and the potential for dangerous side-effects of the experimental vaccines mandated on people, is an apology required for those people who were ridiculed as anti-vaxxers for questioning the severity of COVID-19 and the efficacy of the vax?
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Orientation Definition of propaganda and the purpose of this article Are the chances better that you’d read this article if I called it The Ten Commandments of Propaganda? The author of the book The Ten Commandments of Propaganda thinks so because you have deep collective associations with the Ten Commandments because of the centuries of […]
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Psychologist Solomon Asch carried out conformity experiments for a group on a test comparing the length of three lines. The study participants were found to be more likely to conform to obviously wrong answers first given by other participants, who were actually working for the experimenter.
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More illogic from the vaxxed.
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Yah, I am training to be a school bus driver. I’ve written about it in previous pieces, and that’s First Student, a foreign outfit in 49 states, 7 Canadian provinces, and it’s an equity firm out of Belgium. Bidding on school district transportation contracts far and wide, and alas, this Belgium company is getting paid […]
Spock’s logic as to why one should blindly obey: “Without followers, evil cannot spread.” – Star Trek, “And the Children Shall Lead”
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Orientation Can language limit thought? If a dogmatic belief system can narrow the kind of vocabulary used, can language itself limit the kind of thinking that is going on? How free are people to think their own thoughts independently of language? My answer in this article is that language can trap thought. In his book […]
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What can you do when people refuse to consider the evidence?
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Astute writer Mickey Z reveals how complex non-compliance/non-conformity can be in “the conformity of non-conformity.”
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