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There was a time when wars made sense to some politicians – it was when wars were profitable and easy. In 1914, the British controlled the Nile Valley and the Suez Canal for decades without much push back. The U.
Science and religion are an odd couple. Ancient religious myths were helpful when they called people into action that was beneficial to them but were not objectively true. Modern science is a collective story, but it…
Chapter 7: Now… This I should go so far as to say that embedded in the surrealistic frame of a television news show is a theory of anticommunication, featuring a type of discourse that abandons logic, reason,…
Interest Creates Attention We know that attention creates interest, but can interest create attention? Marketers think so. They use novel stimuli to harness attention in the service of interest. A print ad for Sauza…
Chapter 11: The Huxleyan Warning Our world has any prison-cultures who have structures similar to what Orwell describes.
Part I: The Adventure of the Hero The Baptism of Christ* Chapter 4: The Keys “The Keys” was a commentary on how myths have become watered down in many different traditions today.
Chapter 10: Teaching as an amusing activity Reading books and watching television differ completely in what they imply about learning. America is a case in point of what can be thought of as the third great crisis in…
I summarized the most important ideas of each lecture because many are truly worth remembering. - Maps of Meaning 1 The introduction to Peterson’s lectures by following his arguments that start with a historical…
My lifetime motto is thatmathematicians think in (well, precisely defined and mapped) objects and relations, jurists and legal thinkers in constructs, logicians in maximally abstract operators, and…fools in words.…
The movie Lucy* is based on the premise that we use 10 percent of our brains – a myth that has endured the test of time. Self-help gurus, self-proclaimed psychics, and marketers have exploited this myth for their own…
Usually, shows aren’t very educational. But sometimes they are. Below is a list of some great shows that could teach men a thing or two about a thing or two. Plus they’re fun. 1. The Sopranos– Hilarious,…
In 2017, 94-year-old John B. Goodenough made headlines with his invention of a solid battery that could be charged and discharged hundreds of times without degradation. The new battery was not only more stable and…
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