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In Steve Bannon’s Brave New World Populism Is a Smoke Screen

Posted on May 1, 2019 by greg

Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, published in 1932, describes an intelligence-based social hierarchy and social conditioning that creates a utopian society. Steve Bannon sows disinformation in order to create alternative facts that support his ‘globalist’ conspiracy theory. Steve Bannon’s brave … Continue reading →

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A Need to Shift to Social Determinants: We Can Not Afford Individualism

Posted on April 20, 2019 by greg

Social determinants are systematic social and economic conditions that influence a person’s health. They include income, housing, education, gender and race, and have a greater impact on individual and population health than biological and environmental conditions. Their impact can even … Continue reading →

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Cult of Personality Drives Increased Cognitive Dissonance

Posted on April 10, 2019 by greg

Cognitive dissonance is the brain’s inability to handle two conflicting realities, so it creates an alternate one, which often defies actual reality. Cognitive biases reflect mental patterns that can lead people to form beliefs or make decisions that do not … Continue reading →

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The State of Denial and the Politics of Climate Change Planning

Posted on April 1, 2019 by greg

Neoliberalism is often characterized in terms of its belief in sustained economic growth as the means to achieve human progress. Neoliberals have developed a whole spectrum of responses to global warming. This includes a short-term plan, a medium-term plan and … Continue reading →

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Toward a Successful Society: a New Model of Democracy

Posted on March 20, 2019 by greg

Democracy is a political system of competition for power. Functional democracy is a form of democracy that functions in the interest of the people. In a democracy the people are sovereign – they are the highest form of political authority. … Continue reading →

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Building a Community of Leaders and a Real Fourth Estate

Posted on March 10, 2019 by greg

In Europe, going back to medieval times, the people who participated in the political life of a country were generally divided into three classes or estates. The Fourth Estate is a societal power, force or institution whose influence is not … Continue reading →

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Paradox of Social Action Analysis of the Unexpected Revisited

Posted on March 1, 2019 by greg

Neoliberalism, a policy model that advocates the control of economic factors to the private sector from the public sector, has been a dominant ideology since the 1980s. Economic growth is the main purpose of the neoliberal agenda; it is becoming … Continue reading →

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Recession Hurts While Austerity Kills Dreams and People

Posted on February 20, 2019 by greg

Since 2008 trickle-down economics has been kept alive by the austerity delusion – combined inordinate fear with buoyant optimism – of the rich, the bankers, the mainstream economists and the media rather than reality. It has been a decade since … Continue reading →

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Today’s Metanarrative Hides an Assault on Truth and Reality

Posted on February 10, 2019 by greg

More than 30 years ago, academics started to discredit “truth” as one of the ‘grand narratives,’ or a metanarrative which clever people could no longer bring themselves to believe in. Instead of “the truth”, which was to be rejected as … Continue reading →

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Seeking Happiness Seems to be Part of System Justification

Posted on February 1, 2019 by greg

An economic system that rewards psychopathic personality traits has changed our ethics and our personalities – neoliberalism favors certain personality traits and penalizes others. Our society constantly proclaims that anyone can make it if they just try hard enough, all … Continue reading →

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