So, lots of people are talking about authoritarians being a threat to democracy because of their attraction to dictatorial agents. However, I am more sanguine about what we are dealing with–lazycrats.
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Category Archives: Hannah’s views
Virtual or simulated.
One of stories of the day is poor Donald’s assertion that the “virus affects virtually nobody.” Where did he get that formulation? Technically speaking, no body can be affected by virtual reality or simulation. The internet is not affected by the virus. Was somebody providing a technical explanation that he simply misunderstood? Is the word as used an adjective or an adverb?
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Who’s orchestrating the subversion of SCOTUS?
Well, if there were a bona fide organization, it would be registered somewhere and known.
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died
I am struck by how many people find it necessary to announce how her demise makes them feel. It is as if the significance of any event is defined by a personal response. Is this evidence of people being self-centered (man is the measure of all things) or of an inability to perceive the world dispassionately?
Rumination prompted by Barr
This has been a great learning experience. The current administration signals the end of the importance of political parties/factions, the commercialization of hiring public servants, and the illusion that “public servant” is some sort of euphemism.
Dear Rachel Maddow
Sorry, Ms. Maddow, you are wrong. Under the Constitution, minor children are considered property and have no rights. When their parents are adjudged to have abandoned them and neglected to provide proper care, the children are removed by social workers and placed in foster care situations and made available for adoption, if anybody else wants them.
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The Genesis of U.S. Aggression
The abusive treatment of imported and native peoples to make them work for no-talent migrants who could not sustain themselves was the original sinful import into the Americas. Then, although the formal enslavement of certain populations was rejected, doing it under the guise of equality was a mistake.
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Burr letter
After Aaron Burr killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel he came to St. Simons to avoid prosecution as dueling had been made illegal. While here he visited John Couper on Cannon’s Point and survived a hurricane. This is his letter to his daughter, it includes fascinating tidbits about life back then.
Mind blown
So, I’m reading this article on Dominance Behavioral Syatem and it tells me
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3383914/
that
status describes the ability to gain the respect and social attention of other individuals
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