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Have you seen “The Shelter”?
It’s a Twilight Zone episode that is philosophically interesting. I think of Rod Serling’s “The Shelter” as a profound meditation on Nietzschean v. Christian ethics, Darwinian survival of the fittest, zero-sum games, and living in a world where the civic culture … Continue reading
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Tagged bomb shelters, civility, civilization, dystopia, evolution, fear, immigration, Islam, nuclear terrorism, prejudice, terror, the twilight zone
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Sherry Marquez Bait: a Man from Catholic Brazil Decapitates His Mother
This today from a Latin American news service: Police in the northeastern state of Bahia are looking for a 22-year-old man accused of decapitating his mother and fleeing with her head, the news Web site G1 said Tuesday. I await … Continue reading
The Torture Debate, UFO Cults, and People Impervious to Changing Their Minds
Ryan Sager sees a connection: I have yet to see a single pundit or politician change his of her position on torture or “enhanced interrogation” based on anything that’s come out since the torture memos. Isn’t that odd? Well, not … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, faith, philosophy, prejudice, reason, science, skepticism, torture, torture debate, ufo cults, UFOs
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Together All Alone? Democratic Strategist, James Carville, on the Internet
Carville thinks that, with regard to politics, people generally use the Internet to reinforce prejudices, not to form an independent opinion. In other words, people tend to drop into the rut of following only the blogs and websites that they agree with, … Continue reading
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Tagged bias, internet, james carville, opinion, philosophy, Politics, prejudice, propaganda, psychology, social psychology
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