Category: Control
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Nootropics or Smart Drugs
Important caveat for those thinking smart drugs can make a person more intelligent: Like any performance enhancer, there has to be a core level of intelligence or athleticism to be augmented. Welcome to the world of nootropics, or smart drugs. Nootropics (derived from Greek words that mean to bend the…
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Sufficiency Economy
Everyone has been affected by the #economiccrisis and some of us know folks who are still reeling from how banks played dice with our futures. If you have an hour, you might want to learn a little about how Buddhist’s in Thailand responded to their 1997 Asian market collapse. This…
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Academia as mechanical productivity
like the Whatever Etc page if you use Facebook. It is amazing how the machinery of academia has been turned on by someone and just left running… Like a Charlie… Posted by Whatever Etc. on Friday, January 22, 2016
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Public memory, propaganda, and ethics
My colleague is trying to get his students thinking about ethics by putting forward an issue of public morals and conscience. I agree with him that this monument to the Confederate Soldiers of Denton, Texas, should be removed. I was a bit more over the top in what I thought…
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Memories without rememberers
Film by Alba Mora and Anna Sanmartí about the disappearing shamanic rituals of the Lanjia Sora Tribe after the arrival of the Christian missionaries in eastern India.
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The Lives and Ideas of Robert Anton Wilson
Happy birthday RAW! If you have about 90 minutes to spare, you would learn a great deal from watching this little documentary.
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The richest 62
There are 62 super-billionaires at the top of the top of the 1% who are wealthier than half of all other people combined. Leading figures from Pope Francis to Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the International Monetary Fund, have called for action to reverse the trend in inequality, but Oxfam said…
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Bitter Lake – Adam Curtis
Politicians used to have the confidence to tell us stories that made sense of the chaos of world events. But now there are no big stories and politicians react randomly to every new crisis – leaving us bewildered and disorientated.
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Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
In this excerpt, the teenage Rosa Luxemburg teaches her family about Marx’s Das Kapital, explaining material and social relations and the problem of money. Source: Rosa Luxemburg Explains Capitalism Using Spoons
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@tavissmiley critiques #CorporateMedia coverage of #RacialArsonist #DonaldTrump
The broadcaster Tavis Smiley made headlines this week for an appearance on ABC’s “This Week” when he called out Donald Trump for being an “unrepentant, irascible religious and racial arsonist.” Trump responded by calling Smiley a “hater and racist.” Smiley responds to Trump while also criticizing the corporate media for…
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Pantisocracy
[Samuel Taylor] Coleridge and [Robert] Southey believed that contemporary society and politics were responsible for cultures of servitude and oppression. Having abandoned these corrupting influences along with personal property for a fresh start in the wilderness, the Pantisocrats hoped that men might be governed by the “dictates of rational benevolence.”…
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The background of North Korea
The basic history is this: In 1910, Japan colonized Korea, treating Koreans not so much as foreigners but as a wayward subset of the Japanese race now reunited. Imperial Japan’s official worldview was race-based, far-right ultranationalism, obsessed with racial purity and superiority. It was a lot like Europe’s early-1900s fascist…
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#YallQaeda and the Limits of Liberal Laughs | Al Jazeera America
#YallQaeda jokes barter in redneck stereotyping and ignore the more pernicious underpinnings of the patriot movement. “How fucking weird is it that armed militia group in the early stages of what might become a standoff is being laughed at by the world?” tweeted renowned human rights lawyer and activist Stanley…
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Saartjie Baartman and colonial capitalist obsession
Baartman’s story is a tragic tale of colonialism, and one of the more egregious examples of the West’s exploitation of black women’s bodies. Her body had value because it was considered exotic, like any other animal housed in a cage at the zoo. Baartman was likely the first African woman many Londoners had ever…
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Man-in-Pause: My Mid-Century Change of Life
I got up yesterday–o3 January 2016–realizing the I was fed up with Facebook. I want to keep blogging, but what is the real use of sustaining Facebook? Sure, I’ll still let things from here cross post over there. But here’s what smacks of 21st century idiocy: giving my energy to…
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