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Idiocracy Update: July 2024
The Idiocracy, once presaged by a movie 25 years ago, is now in full bloom. Our once great nation prepares for an election to see if democracy (in its current imperfect form) will survive.
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Personal Mythology
The individual's reaction to parental indoctrination is a personal mythology. The kid's self-myths are layered onto the parental myths to create the personal mythology
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Conspiracy Nuts in the Trumpian Era
The Pizzagate Conspiracy Theory and its offspring QAnon were integral to Donald Trump's presidential campaign. Social media amplify these toxic narratives. Trump had 88 million Twitter followers, was banned, and now is on X, run by Elon Musk.
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Blaming the Boomers
When the U.S won World War II, the GI's came home and had lots of kids, These kids benefited from FDR's New Deal programs, The G.I. Bill, strong labor unions, a supercharged manufaturing economy for about 25 years, until the capitalists started welfare for the wealthy.
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Right-wingers Wage Culture Wars
Conservatives wage culture wars, lament the loss of "traditional values", in service to the white patriarchal plutocracy which loathes all progressive reforms.
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White Nationalist Commie-Phobia
The core trait leading up to white nationalist Retro-Murica is paranoia about communists, embedded in conspiracy theories and popular rightwingnut narratives on Fox News and social media. Paranoid white men fear being replaced by commies and their non-white comrades.
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The History of Conspiracy Theories, Pt I
White nationalism has its ideological foundations in conspiracy theories which blame various institutions or groups of people for threatening the white capitalist patriarchy, i.e. the traditional American ruling class.
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The Shadow Archetype
The shadow is the censored unacceptable disowned portion of ourselves that emerges under stress or provocation. When we are triggered or "lose it", we succumb to the shadow's misbehaving, inappropriateness, misdeeds. In moments of petty criticisms and condemnations we are the shadow.
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Fascism's Beginnings in Italy
Fascism was the offspring of conflict between opposing factions of socialists. World War I was the stimulus whereby "national socialists" in Italy became fascists and were opposed to internationalist communists.
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The Introvert's Clumsy Improv Persona
The persona, or social mask, by its very nature is the essence of extraversion. Introverts live an in extraverted world and are often clumsy in their efforts to make a persona. The extravert lives and breathes as their persona. I explore the differences in personas between extraverts and introverts.
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Old Fart Gym Clique
My experiences with guys near my age at the gym
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Sports as Religion
The Super Bowl is Exhibit A, the ostentatious proof that sports is an American religion
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The Origins of Social Democracy
Socialism split off into two movements: revolutionary and reformist. Social democracy evolved from the reformist movement.
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The Strange 'Morphing' of Marxism Into Fascism
Fascism resulted from Marxists who reacted to World War I contrary to international proletariat loyalty in conformity with nationalist loyalty. As World War I progressed and hardships followed, fascism developed into a political movement.
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Time: The Endless Enigma
Time is a real component of physical reality, non-spatial and immaterial. It's a core dimension of the universe that has to do with underlying change and causation.