I write from my disparate obsessions and don't expect anyone to find all of it interesting except me. Hence, a tool to sort the wheat from the chaff. The links are to Medium Lists but you can just scroll down the page to see info on all articles. Tribes —…
An examination of the twin roots of empathy and genocidal warfare — We're going to need a bigger boat. Love and Hate We are hard-wired for deep empathy with our 'brothers and sisters'…even brothers and sisters well outside narrow family connections. We are hard-wired to hate and even kill anyone we feel threatens us and our people. Empathy freezes. Antipathy switches on. The same neurotransmitter…
Are Trans people saving human civilization? — Gender Dysphoria As a cisgender, heterosexual man, I've been trying to understand gender dysphoria. How does it feel to be in the "wrong" body? And what physical or psychological elements contribute to the felt sense that one's soul or mind is of a different gender than one's body? Follow me down the…
"How could they be so stupid?" A response. "You want to know funny things, believe anything. That's what Vol told me made a person a mali. He said when a guy gets out and gets his face ground into the real world he comes up angry, wants to know how it works, and he'll believe anybody who tells…
And now that I'm thinking about it, what is this guy thing anyway? — Am I Part of a Secret White Guy Death Cult? I certainly don't think so. But I have to consider the facts I'm a guy I'm a White guy I'm a White guy that grew up in South Dakota, home of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, and even sort of went…
Looking at the emotional dynamics and types of political exploitation that have created our political divide === The New Series === === (You can see the Medium promo view of all these after the Earlier Exploration section below.) *** Political Manipulation *** Emotional Truths, Political Lies #01 — political lies are expensive but can be a profit center. *** Identity Formation *** Overcoming Political…
Emotional Truth, Political Lies #02 — Fascism sees its salvation in giving people not their rights, but instead a chance to express themselves. — Walter Benjamin Richard Boone is one bad hombre As a kid, I loved Westerns. When I stayed with my grandparents, the big treat was being allowed to stay up and watch them. They featured exciting heroes doing manly…
Who Rules Science Fiction? —
How can people be so stupid? I hear that question all the time. Well, how did we get so stupid? It wasn't easy. PRRI: Crazy Like a Fox I try to maintain a varied information diet. …
We rely daily on science and its models to guide everything from what we eat, to the medicines we take, to the construction of the machines we use to get to work and back. But are the models 100% certain? Are they True with a capital T? That question misunderstands…
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