The Tattoo Conspiracy
The media is now promoting new medical tattoos that have graphene in them and can transmit information remotely using radio frequencies. Baruch Goldstein, who runs one such startup, calls these tattoos “cutaneous...
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Holograms
In his book “Crystalizing Public Opinion,” Edward Bernays said back in 1926 that a new form of government has emerged for the first time in thousands of years, a...
The Psychology of Totalitarianism
What is the difference between a dictatorship and a totalitarian state? Answer: A dictator only controls one institution (namely, government). In a totalitarian state, by contrast, the ruler lays...
Generalizations
When someone creates a new axiom, what he did was notice a pattern– one that was derived from past data, describes present activity and can thus be used to...
Full Spectrum Habit-Formation
Governments are systems, and systems repeat. (If it doesn’t repeat, it isn’t a system.) Our Constitution, for instance, is a paper algorithm, setting up certain repetitions. Every four years...
Robes
Penny Kelly wrote a fascinating book some decades ago, which predicted events that seem to be happening today. Entitled “Robes,” the book offers a roadmap of occurrences that stretch...
Weights and Measures
One of the first things the Founding Fathers did was to establish a division of weights and measures in the Constitution. By maintaining standards in this sense, merchants couldn’t...
The Fractal Nature of Society
Self-similarity is the concept of a pattern repeating both in the microcosm and the macrocosm. ‘As above, so below,’ said the ancients. Fractal patterns abide by this rule. How...
Social Contagion
Ever since teenaged hysteria kicked off the Salem Witch Trials in the 1600s, a new mania appears every so often. Every decade or so, the media promotes a new...
The Managerial Revolution
150 years ago, Karl Marx prophesied the clash between two segments of society: labor versus capital. He saw the economy as binary in structure. As events would unfold, it...
Savages
Modern society has deprived young people of religion, thereby stripping a coherent story-arc from their lives. Most plays have a set pattern: a beginning, a middle and an end....
The Age of Mercantilism
In the Age of Mercantilism, empires fought over naval trade lanes and colonies. This historical trend was curtailed by the unipolar world of the United States after the end...
Values
We usually don’t think about what purpose laws have. In fact, they are means to an end. That end is “values”. Every society has different values. One society may...
NATO
NATO is much in the news lately, due to the war in Ukraine. As Sweden and Finland signal that they’re about to join the organization, tensions in Europe are...
Being and Becoming
Among the pre-Socratic Greek philosophers, two heavyweights stand out: Heraclitus and Parmenides. These two were antagonists. One believed that “all was flux” and evolution, while the other believed in...
Shrinkflation and the Empire
Why does everything suddenly cost more money? Why are your gas and groceries more expensive? It might be due to Triffin’s Dilemma’. ‘Triffin’s Dilemma’ is a reference to economist...
The Alien and Sedition Act
In 1798, the Federalist Party passed ‘The Alien and Sedition Act’. The pretext of the act was to go after ‘French spies’ in America. Instead, it was used by...
YouTube Pranksters Sued by University
A University in California just sued two YouTube pranksters for causing “panic” in their classrooms. But the deeper point is: Haven’t the universities themselves been behind the causing of...
E.U. in Danger of Collapse?
Garland Nixon is reporting chatter from White House insiders that internal reports indicate that the European Union might collapse within months. What are some of the geopolitical factors that...
Multi-Polar World
As the Saudis refuse to take Biden’s phone calls, the European Union signals that it wants to break away from U.S. hegemony and create its own power bloc, and...