David Duke: The Great White Hope… Not!

I just proved how pathetically weak is the great white supremacist David Duke. He is popular among regressive bigots. Basically, he is selling a conspiracy theory about the genocide of the white race. He has a YouTube channel. I noticed one of his videos and tore apart his entire argument (see comments). After he realized [...]

Conservative & Liberal Families: Observations & Comparison

This post is a continuation of my thoughts from my previous post. Social Indebtedness: Strict Father Morality & Hierarchical Authority I didn’t intend to have a second part, but I wanted to add more context for the ideas in question… which led to further thoughts. Some of the context of my thoughts is personal and I originally decided to leave out the personal for [...]

Social Indebtedness: Strict Father Morality & Hierarchical Authority

I had a thought about Lakoff’s idea of conservative Strict Father morality and how it’s related to hierarchical social organization. A parent or a church has the responsibility to raise a child well according to the values of the model. That makes perfect sense. However, once raised, that child is considered wholly responsible to himself. And, so, the [...]

Wonder vs the Wonder-Killers: two related thought experiments

I was thinking about two issues tonight. Both of them were thought experiments.  - – – The first issue is about sociopaths. I guess I was thinking about it because I just posted a blog where I mentioned Max Weber’s Iron Cage (Self & Other in the Movies: Redemption or Destruction?). Weber was theorizing about how bureaucracy and [...]

Self & Other in the Movies: Redemption or Destruction?

“Man’s greatness comes from knowing he is wretched.”  ~ Blaise Pascal Walking through the cemetary last night, my friend mentioned the movie District 9. It turned out we both had watched it this past week, but my friend didn’t finish watching it because he didn’t like it. So, we discussed the merits (or lack thereof) [...]

The 3 Signs of the Apocalypse

By careful study of YouTube videos, I’ve discovered the three signs of the Apocalypse: First – The Two-Faced Kitten Second – The Burning Jesus Third – The Dancing Robots The End is Nigh!

Why does WordPress hire Retards?

I’m officially convinced the people working for WordPress are retards. It’s a relatively nice service, but there are some glitches that are so basic that I don’t understand why they refuse to fix them. This particular post is in response to two glitches. First, I had logged into my account and had intentionally checked that [...]

Conservative Mistrust & Ideological Certainty (part 2)

I have some further thoughts about the topic I wrote about in my last post: Conservative Mistrust & Ideological Certainty (part 1) I started reading the introduction of Richard Hofstadter’s Anti-Intellectualism in American Life. I immediately could tell that Hofstadter was a man who truly understood what intellectualism is about, but his book isn’t a paean [...]

Conservative Mistrust & Ideological Certainty (part 1)

I’ve noticed a connection of attitudes in a certain type of person, but I’m not sure what it means. This post is largely speculation. I have a book by Richard Hofstadter on anti-intellectualism in the US and so I’ll write in more detail about this in the future. For now, I just want to point out some thoughts [...]

SNL Palin Couric Interview