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Category Archives: Psychology
Defending Julian Assange; Defending the Truth
By Robert J. Burrowes On 11 April 2019, WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange was dragged from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London by UK police and arrested for breaching a bail condition. See ‘Arrest update – SW1’. Upon arrival at a London … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, civil liberties, corporate news, culture, Deep State, elites, Empire, freedom of speech, Geopolitics, History, imperialism, internet freedom, media, Media Literacy, news, Philosophy, police state, propaganda, Psy-ops, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, surveillance state, war
Tagged 9/11, ACLU, alternative media, American Civil Liberties Union, Chelsea Manning, Collateral Murder, corporate media, Ecuador, ecuadorian embassy, empire, Facebook, False Flag, free speech, geopolitics, Global Elite, imperialism, iraq, Julian Assange, Lenin Moreno, MSM, Nonviolence, Peace, Philosophy, police state, press freedom, psychology, surveillance state, war, WikiLeaks
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The ‘Hidden Mechanisms’ That Help Those Born Rich to Excel in Elite Jobs
When two sociologists interviewed highly paid architects, TV producers, actors, and accountants, they encountered work cultures that favor the already affluent. By Joe Pinsker Source: The Atlantic Over the past five years, the sociologists Daniel Laurison and Sam Friedman have … Continue reading
Posted in culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Labor, Psychology, Racism, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Class, culture, economic inequality, Economics, Education, financial cushion, homophily, income gap, Jobs, Meritocracy, psychology, society, Sociology, sponsorship, Wage Disparity, Work
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A belief in meritocracy is not only false: it’s bad for you
By Clifton Mark Source: Aeon ‘We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else …’ Barack Obama, inaugural address, 2013 ‘We must … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, Economics, elites, Inequality, Labor, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Work
Tagged Bill Gates, Discrimination, Economics, Failure, Gratitude, Labor, Luck, Meritocracy, Neuroscience, Privilege, psychology, Robert Frank, Selfishness, Skill, Success, Work
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Why Activists Fail
By Robert J. Burrowes Despite enormous ongoing effort over more than a thousand years, during and since the formation and shaping of the modern world, and as the number of issues being contested has steadily increased, activists of many types … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, anti-war, Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, culture, elites, Empire, Geopolitics, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged activism, Biosphere, Consumerism, Ecology, Gandhi, geopolitics, Giants: The Global Power Elite, Global Elite, Nonviolent Action, peter phillips, Philosophy, psychology, Sociology, Strategy, Violence, war
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Inventing the Future: The Collective Joy of Mark Fisher’s ‘k-punk’
By Michael Grasso Source: We Are the Mutants k-punk By Mark Fisher Foreword by Simon Reynolds, Edited by Darren Ambrose Repeater Books, 2018 A little over two years ago, theorist and cultural critic Mark Fisher took his own life at … Continue reading
Posted in Art, consciousness, culture, Economics, Film, History, media, Media Literacy, Music Video, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Engineering, society, Sociology
Tagged antinatalism, Cultural Theory, culture, Darren Ambrose, hauntology, K-Punk, media, music, Neoliberalism, Nihilism, Philosophy, Precariat, pulp modernism, Simon Reynolds
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Elite Banking at Your Expense: How Secretive Tax Havens are Used to Steal Your Money
By Robert J. Burrowes Tax havens are locations around the world where wealthy individuals, criminals and terrorists, as well as governments and government agencies (such as the CIA), banks, corporations, hedge funds, international organizations (such as the Vatican) and crime … Continue reading
Posted in CIA, Conspiracy, Corporate Crime, Economics, elites, History, Inequality, Neocons, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime
Tagged Bribery, central banks, CIA, contract kickbacks, Corruption, Economics, elites, failure to disclose conflicts of interest, fraudulent invoicing, illicit political donations, insider trading, London, Manhattan, Market Rigging, Money Laundering, Neocons, Offshore Banks, Oligarchy, Philosophy, Plutocrats, psychology, Sociology, State Crime, Tax Evasion, Tax Havens, The Vatican, trade mispricing, weapons trading, World War II
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Art and Dreaming: Realizing our Power to Co-Create Reality
By Ruth Gordon Source: Reality Sandwich “True creativity doesn’t just make things; it feeds what feeds life. In modern culture where people are no longer initiated, the spirit goes unfed. To be seen, the uninitiated create insane things, some destructive … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Art, consciousness, culture, Environment, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Art, Community, Consciousness, Creativity, culture, environment, evil, Paul Levy, Philosophy, psychology, Purpose, Reality, Shamanism, society, spirituality, Wetiko
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What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD?
By Kensy Cooperrider Source: aeon For centuries, Inuit hunters navigated the Arctic by consulting wind, snow and sky. Now they use GPS. Speakers of the aboriginal language Gurindji, in northern Australia, used to command 28 variants of each cardinal direction. … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, culture, education, imperialism, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, society, Sociology
Tagged Anthropology, cognitive diversity, Conciousness, culture, Humanity, psychology, science, society, Sociology, Space, Time
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