We must never forget the ugly abuses of slavery or its legacy effects on African Americans to this day. However, it is vitally important that all people, regardless of their race or color, realize that slavery was never about race or color. The people of West Africa just happened to be the most profitably exploitable […]
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Biden left office warning that a small number of super-wealthy individuals have taken control of the country. Echoing Eisenhower’s warning of the Military Industrial Complex, Biden described how these oligarchs used the Tech Industrial Complex (they own) to manipulate the opinions, beliefs, and behaviors of enough of the American population to elect their proxy. Brexit,
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The future of everything depends on us (we the people) learning. Yet both political parties use state-of-the-art persuasion science to design and bombard us with ads engineered to manipulate our voting behaviors not facilitate our learning. Both parties depend on and predatorily exploit the emotional manipulability of our population. In the name of representing us, both
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This was a journal note from 2003: I am increasingly drawn to the analogy (or, possibly, correspondence) between the realm of affects and the realm of physics. Particularly, “Affects are modulations in the density of biophysical locations and that the ‘spaces’ surrounding the effects of affect are warped (shaped) in a way analogous to Einsteinian
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