Jared Diamond has an interesting essay at the current issue of New Yorker, " Vengeance Is Ours ", that is worth considering. In the essay, Diamond not only describes the moral and political economy of cycles of personal and inter-tribal vengeance in one of the relatively stateless area of the...
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TokyoTom
on Wed, Apr 30 2008
Filed under: state, rent-seeking, war, cognition, vengeance, hostility, manipulation, justice, Jared Diamond
[I ran this originally as a "page" rather than as a "post", when I had simply put up Zappa`s lyrics. Since "posts" might be more visible to visitors I`ve decided to post this as well.] I ran across some interesting and topical Frank Zappa lyrics the other day, so I`m putting...
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TokyoTom
on Sun, Apr 20 2008
Filed under: rent-seeking, government, bush, cognition, politics, Zappa, MSM, Rove, clinton, obama
I ran across some interesting and topical Frank Zappa lyrics the other day, so I`m putting them up here. Does these resonate with anyone else? I have noted a few thoughts further below. I'm The Slime I am gross and perverted I'm obsessed 'n deranged I have existed for years But very little...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Apr 17 2008
Filed under: rent-seeking, government, bush, cognition, politics, Zappa, MSM, Rove, clinton, obama
Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...
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TokyoTom
on Thu, Apr 17 2008
Filed under: rent-seeking, tribalism, Enviro Derangement Syndrome, cognition, climate change