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23
Nov
2009
Religion

25 minutes ago by parabanger

Religion is a social network for trust that uses ideology as the glue for that trust. What needs to be explained is how ideologies glue adherents and why. HOw: Ideologies are social networks that cohere by using the us-vs-them paradigm. Ideological doctrine has to contain something patently absurd t ...

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Which new world order: unipolar? bipolar? multipolar? non-polar?

1 hour ago by policyanalysis

Towards the end of the George W. Bush Administration, a series of essays by Richard Haass, former Head of Policy Planning of the State Department of the Bush Administration, now Head of the Council on Foreign Relations, marked a breathtaking change in the analysis of America’s national interests in ...

International Policy ... - policyanalysis.wordpress.com · 4 references

An RNC Purity Test?

2 hours ago by David Weigel

Reid Wilson has the first look at a resolution being pushed by Republican National Committee member Jim Bopp, author of the infamous “socialist” resolution, that would aim to prevent future NY-23 disasters by requiring that candidates fulfill at least seven of 10 issue promises. After the jump, the ...

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In German Politics, Ideology trumps Evidence

3 hours ago by mus

Investigation of the mechanism of decay reactions with single bond breaking and calculation of their velocity constants on the basis of quantum chemical and statistical methods - that's quite a complex topic to write about, isn't it? Well, someone wanted to write her doctoral dissertation about it, ...

The Lay Scientist - layscience.net · Rank: 6,926 · 225 references

What does the ruling class do when it rules?

3 hours ago by lenin

One doesn't want to collapse into an instrumentalist reading of the state as a mere 'executive' of the bourgeoisie. It is not as if state personnel canvas the capitalist class through referenda on every policy issue and then adopt the majority view. On the contrary, divisions among the owners give s ...

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Economy 3.0

5 hours ago by cuz

Douglas Rushkoff recently presented a fifteen minute talk entitled Radical Abundance. The basic premise is intriguing. The introduction of government monopolized currency in the Middle Ages was a technique for keeping power in the hands of the aristocracy, since it gave them control over the relativ ...

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Drawing Four (in process)

12 hours ago by kayemme

Large drawing started 11-10, 2009 36×31, pencil on paper During the process of Drawing Four, I realized two very important things. First, they should be larger. Larger because the larger the paper, the larger I can make the constant box, allowing for an even smaller box to occur in relation, thus pr ...

Keri Marion - kerimarion.com · Rank: 136,306 · 2 references

Obama and FDR’s 2nd Bill of Rights

17 hours ago by Dave Johannes

President Obama and his administration are trying to “fundamentally transform the United States of America”. They have set a path to institute a socialist society and try to establish FDR’s 2 nd Bill of Rights. The goal is to create a “nanny state” where the government controls and regulates society ...

Uncommon Sense - davegj13.wordpress.com · Rank: 170,669 · 5 references

My Sister Is A Teabagger: Ideology

18 hours ago by Bryan Packman

The brand of conservatism embodied by the teabaggers is nothing but an adherence to a defined ideology. Andrew Sullivan has written many blog posts discussing conservatism’s movement from a pragmatic resistance to ideology to nothing but demagogic propaganda. His best definition of this new, strict ...

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22
Nov
2009
Mack the Knife

21 hours ago by Stephan Powys

Allan Bloom traces the popular enthusiasm for criminality to the 19th century German philosophers. Culturally – according to him – the new appetite hits the mainstream with “ Mack the Knife” from Brecht’s and Weill’s The Threepenny Opera, in 1928 Weimar Germany. It was the first time the bourgeoisie ...

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