Like it or not, this is your marketplace. Spoiler Alert: This post is intentionally satirical. The reason is the difficulty in accurately describing something as bizarre as human “logic.” If I took the edge off, it would come across as academic. But these ideas cannot be found in academia. They’re typically in fringe media and […]
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Spoiler alert: I do not believe in putting politicians on pedestals. If you think national figures are heroes, you should skip this article.) History (predictably) repeats. In 1915, the UK, alongside its allies, launched the Gallipoli Campaign against the Ottoman Empire to prevent a potential alliance between Germany and Russia, thereby opening a new front […]
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(But the owners don’t realize it.) There is nothing we hate more than watching startups fail right out of the gate. In 25 years of watching these “gate crashers” all but a tiny few we knew were going to crash. Why didn’t we stop them? There is no stopping a person who believes he’s got […]
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It’s not hard to see… unless you’re intentionally blind. This is why Artificial Intelligence is so dangerous. “Trotter and Le Bon concluded that the group mind does not think in the strict sense of the word. In place of thoughts, it has impulses, habits, and emotions. In making up its mind, it’s first impulse is […]
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Unipolar is the new meme. But when the example of the leader is not at hand, the herd must think for itself. It does this by means of clichés, pat words or images which stand for a whole group of ideas or experiences. Ed Bernays. (1) “A language is something infinitely greater than grammar and […]
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