Warming Up
Saturday, June 28th, 2008 Posted in The People, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »Think of global warming as an uncontrolled fire that is growing. The scientists have sounded the alarm. Now we only need our engineers acting as our fire department consultants to deploy a technical response. We, the people, in ...
Benign Mass Movement Ready to Go
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Concepts, Cadre, Cadre Functions, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »Mass movement: The parallel acceptance of a concept by numerous persons as a basis for action. For example: (1) When we link tobacco with cancer we give up tobacco. (2) A military attack on a city and ...
Our Stories
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in The People, Biography | No Comments »First there are the whole lives of each of us from birth to death, minute by minute, some parts of which we record for ourselves in memory. We narrate to others snippets very much like the geneticist takes ...
The Ideology of American Prisoners of War
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Ideology | No Comments »A classical interaction setting of guards and prisoners. The formal rules and the place (barracks, walls, wire fence, moat and so on) are imposed by the prison administration. The sequence of action unfolds upon this base. If ...
All Ideologies Are Wrong Headed
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Iraq, Ideology | No Comments »Pareto was suspicious of stated motives. Too many people performing the same kind of action offer vastly different reasons. Freud felt that the motive for an action frequently is not easily accessible to the actor. The gap ...
My Kingdom for a Horse
Sunday, June 8th, 2008 Posted in Invention, Culture, Sports | No Comments »This notion of fate, the insignificant event tipping a larger outcome, involves man's relationship to the horse. Without this animal the man is in deep trouble. Yet at one time in our human story none of us had one. And ...
Early in the American Invasion of Iraq
Monday, June 2nd, 2008 Posted in Social Class, Iraq | No Comments »The time is the beginning of the Second Iraq War in 2003. The American invasion comes in three waves, one military, the other two not. (1) The shock. The American Army offensive goes in and overruns the Iraqi ...