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Category Archives: Human Nature
Republicans Brains are wired to deny science & reality
Preface. This is my book review of Chris Mooney’s 2012 “The Republican Brain. The Science of Why They Deny Science—and Reality”. This is a mishmash of a review of this book, way below other articles about this topic as well … Continue reading
Richard Heinberg: “An Order of Chaos Please”
[ Richard Heinberg’s article comes after my comments below: It really matters who is in power when the energy crisis hits, because some leaders will soften collapse more than others. Surely right-wing / libertarian “everyone for themselves” leaders will have … Continue reading
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Tagged collapse, government, koch brothers, libertarian, peak oil, politics, richard heinberg
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The phony in American politics: how voters turn into suckers
[ This article skewers many politicians, but my favorite part is what I’ve excerpted below, about one of the first political candidates in the 1930s who ran as a Christian to snag those voters for the big money interests, Texas’s richest oilmen … Continue reading
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Tagged politics, religion
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Human conflict arising from natural resources
[ There are links as well as excerpts from several articles below. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of “When Trucks Stop Running: Energy and the Future of Transportation”, 2015, Springer and “Crunch! Whole Grain Artisan Chips and Crackers”. Podcasts: Practical Prepping, … Continue reading
The dark side of religion: how ritual human sacrifice helped create unequal societies
April 5, 2016. The dark side of religion: how ritual human sacrifice helped create unequal societies. University of Auckland, New Zealand. Journal article: Watts, J., et al. April 14, 2016. Ritual human sacrifice promoted and sustained the evolution of stratified … Continue reading
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Republicans have righteous minds? Really? Book review of the “Righteous Mind”
Preface. Although I liked this book, I found other books on far better and more profound. Garcia and Shermer deal with humanity as a species (Tomasello too, but he is hard to read and repetitious, find a book review), and … Continue reading
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