And this is kind of the model that you have. If you want to become the general secretary of NATO, you have to show your loyalty to the empire effectively. This is why it’s interesting now that Jens Stoltenberg is stepping down. You have now the former prime ...
This aspect of extending state power did not develop much sophistication until the nineteenth century when the German Otto von Bismarck “established compulsory accident, sickness, and old-age insurance for workers.”5 That is, he took the first steps toward a permanent and bureaucratic “safety ...
“If our need for status is fundamental, this discomfort we feel about admitting it may seem surprising. But we tend to believe the brain’s heroic story, not the subconscious realpolitik of the game. To admit to being motivated by improving our rank risks making others think less of us, ...
I’ve tried to stick to real science and I think the future I describe is pretty plausible. This page attempts to explain why I made the choices I did in devising the Incatena. I don’t expect everyone to agree, especially as some of these ideas are big stinky wet blankets for a...
While it may have gone unmentioned, the Spanish flu left a lasting imprint in the decades to come. “The combination of the flu and the war made Americans afraid of what was out there in the wider world, so there was a growing notion of becoming an isolationist country and keeping out ...
lacking any true loyalty to the underlying spirit of the Enlightenment. For example, most of the Straussian neocons evidently despise (as both Strauss and Plato did) the "common man" they profess to admire. (Or else they would have putaccountability— the Enlightenment's greatest tool — at...
If you pick a couple thousand head of cabbages a day to send overseas – when did it become okay to not have one for yourself for dinner in the USA? I guess in the case of my Grandma, I don’t know the exact numbers, but she certainly had a daily quota of ...
A war we did not wish to fight but were thrust into. It also serves as justification for the two atomic bombs dropped on Japan by saying, “Japan started the war and got what they deserved.” The first claim about America creating a myth of innocence, i.e. about not wanting to enter...
Many of us in the forensic trenches have glimpsed it: a seemingly normal guy who’s become so wrapped up in the online smorgasbord of sexual fantasy offerings that he spends all of his time frenetically downloading massive amounts of ever-more-deviant porn, as if trying to quench an ins...