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Tag: Rationality

  • Offensive Realism Disrobed

    Following the publication in 2001 of his book, The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, John Mearsheimer’s notion of Offensive Realism (OR) has become widely regarded (in academe and in state policy circles) as a no-nonsense, pragmatic and now preeminent ‘theory’ of how and why it is that the so-called great powers of the world behave […]

  • Plea in Defense of a Trade Unionist Facing Expulsion for Supporting Palestine

    For initiating a petition denouncing the French CGT Confederation’s stance on Palestine after October 7, Salah was defamed and expelled from the union. This troubling case, part of a global witch-hunt against supporters of Gaza, deserves some attention. Interventions and comments by Professor Bruno Drweski, who defended Salah L. during the proceedings for his permanent […]

  • The War on Food and the War on Humanity: Platforms of Control and the Unbreakable Spirit

    Max Weber (1864-1920) was a prominent German sociologist who developed influential theories on rationality and authority. He examined different types of rationality that underpinned systems of authority. He argued that modern Western societies were based on legal-rational authority and had moved away from systems that were based on traditional authority and charismatic authority. Traditional authority […]

  • Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Absolutist, Relativist and Cynical Thinking Styles

    Orientation The mismatch between the complexity of the world and the simplistic manner in which we think about it The social, economic and political world in which we live is extremely complex, but  most of the Yankee population does not have the thinking skills that can make intelligent decisions about this world and what to […]

  • The Science of Superstition Part II

    The Science of Superstition Part II

    Summary of Part I In Part I of this 2-part article, I began by listing the typical superstitious behavior college students engage in before taking a test. I identified the conditions of superstition, what superstition is and then added the range of its scope. My piece is about socially shared and personal superstitions rather than […]

  • The Science of Superstition

    The Science of Superstition

    Orientation Examples of Superstitious Behavior Stuart Vyse is a psychologist and the author of one of the books I’ll be referencing called Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. In that book he used his students as guinea pigs for his research on superstition. Before taking one of his exams Vyse found the following superstitions […]

  • Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Thirteen Commandments of Propaganda

    Orientation Definition of propaganda and the purpose of this article Are the chances better that you’d read this article if I called it The Ten Commandments of Propaganda? The author of the book The Ten Commandments of Propaganda thinks so because you have deep collective associations with the Ten Commandments because of the centuries of […]

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