Category Archives: Psychology

Projection and Disgust

Posted on Saturday 9 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

More on the theme of, why now? Some of the reasons are eternal; that certain themes seem to be more apparent currently may just be random variation in the news of the day. (I saw a comment somewhere about the … Continue reading →

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Globalization, Wokeness, and Trek

Posted on Friday 8 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

New York Times, David Brooks, 8 April 2022: Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.

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LQCs: False Flag Fact Checking

Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Andrew Moshirnia, 31 March 2022: Russia’s Diabolical New Approach to Spreading Misinformation.

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LQCs: Hyperbole, Ridiculous Lies, and Anti-Liberalists

Posted on Monday 4 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A few items from recent days.

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LQCs: Symmetry and Simplicity

Posted on Sunday 3 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Here’s a science item from the New York Times a couple weeks ago that presents what seems to be a mystery or conundrum about nature (and evolution) that turns out to have a simple answer that, once pointed out, seems … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Doomism

Posted on Saturday 2 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

OnlySky, Adam Lee, 4 March 2022: Against doomism, subtitled, “Don’t confuse ‘more dramatic’ for ‘more likely’”

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Rolf Dobelli, STOP READING THE NEWS

Posted on Friday 25 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Published in German, 2019, in English, 2020, by Sceptre. This is a short book on an idea that seems counter-intuitive. But I love counter-intuitive ideas, those that challenge my provisional conclusions about the world, especially if a book on such … Continue reading →

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LQC: Sharpest Tools; My Tracking Spreadsheets

Posted on Wednesday 23 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Salon, Chauncey DeVega, 23 March 2022: New research on Trump voters: They’re not the sharpest tools in the box, subtitled, “Now there’s proof: Trump’s voters lack ‘cognitive sophistication,’ often believe Bible is literal word of God”

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LQCs: The Self-Righteousness of “Authentic” Americans

Posted on Tuesday 22 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

And: Republican victim-hood and their desire to discriminate against people they don’t like. And why the Supreme courts keeps discovering “new” rights.

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LQCs: Contrarians, Conspiracy Theories, and Talking Points

Posted on Saturday 19 March 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

The Atlantic, David French, 18 March 2022: What the Russia Invasion Teaches Us About the Right, subtitled, “Contrarians aren’t critical thinkers. They’re gullible reactionaries, vulnerable to conspiracy theories.”

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