Sunday, January 28, 2018

Brief blurts about tribes and tribalism in America — Steven Pinker via Thomas Edsall

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Thomas Edsall’s article on “Is President Trump a Stealth Postmodernist or Just a Liar?”(Jan 2018) observes that “If postmodernism does not ...
Friday, January 26, 2018

Readings on tribes and tribalism — #26: Lawrence Rosen’s “A Liberal Defense of Tribalism” (Jan 2018)

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Here’s an unusual article that disparages the ruckus about reversions to tribalism in America. Princeton anthropology professor Lawrence Ro...
Sunday, January 21, 2018

Readings on cognitive warfare at the societal level — #10: Clint Watts, “So What Did We Learn? Looking Back on Four Years of Russia’s Cyber-Enabled “Active Measures”” (Jan 2018)

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I have a big backlog of readings to eventually write about on this topic, but I’m hastening to jump the line with this expert new article b...
Saturday, January 20, 2018

Readings on tribes and tribalism — #25: Jonathan Haidt, “The Age of Outrage” (Dec 2017)

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In an earlier article in this series (#8), Jonathan Haidt and co-author Pico Iyer proposed that Americans ease their divisive turn to triba...
Friday, January 19, 2018

Readings on tribes and tribalism — #24: Robert Wright, “How Mindfulness Meditation Can Save America” (2017)

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Most readings in this series are diagnostic but not clearly prescriptive — they don’t say what we should do to overcome our reversions to t...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Making the case for STA:C in 15 slides: How and why people’s space-time-action cognitions should be studied as a triplex — Addendum

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Again, this 15-slide briefing-style post supersedes an earlier incomplete version I posted in 2017 ( here ). Because this newly expanded re...

Making the case for STA:C in 15 slides: How and why people’s space-time-action cognitions should be studied as a triplex — Part II

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Again, this 15-slide briefing-style post an earlier incomplete version I posted in 2017 ( here ). Because this newly expanded revised updat...