“Woke” is an important epithet these days. I’m glad that MAGA has popularized it. Woke means that your mind has reached a level of consciousness such that you have become aware of the misfortune of others. You feel empathy towards those whom you see as mistreated, exploited, oppressed and abused by society. Elon Musk likes…
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America is the Land of Opportunism
You probably think of America as the land of opportunity, that opportunity is a good thing. Here’s the definition from Merriam-Webster of opportunism: : the art, policy, or practice of taking advantage of opportunities or circumstances often with little regard for principles or consequences I focus on “with little regard for principles or consequences.” Hopefully,…
Why Don’t Left-Wing Groups Collaborate?
I’ve been in and out of left-of-center groups for decades. From my beginning I’ve observed how many groups there are and how much they disagree with each other, leading to a weak front against opposition. Call it divide and be conquered. I started looking into one of the most active and visible “movements”, namely Indivisible….
Donald Trump is Today’s Walter Cronkite
I was listening to Sean Carroll’s Mindscape podcast, episode 301, interviewing Tina Eliassi-Rad. It is an interesting discussion of AI and data, and its relevance to human knowledge and behavior. Eliassi-Rad commented that Walter Cronkite was the most trusted authority, that anything he said would be believed. Eliassi-Rad asserted that we don’t have anyone like…
It’s the Stupidity, Stupid!
“One small step for America, one giant leap for Idiocracy.” Yes, that’s a reference to the Mike Judge movie. #Republicans and the #MasterPlanners (see @levernews.com) have taken us most of the way to Idiocracy. When Private Equity and the Churches complete their takeover of the health care industrial complex, then we will make it the…