Posted in cognitive psychology, economics, politics, psychology, social psychology on Aug 25th, 2008 No Comments »
A voter’s behavior at the polling place reduces to a decision. Hold that idea.
This is analogous to a shopper’s behavior. How much time does a shopper spend in deciding what tomato in a pile of tomatoes will provide the biggest payoff in return for their investment of “selection” time? Why is it that a given […]
Posted in Carl Jung, analytic psychology, folk psychology, politics, web media on Jul 19th, 2008 No Comments »
These are all scattered excerpts from Jung’s book “The Undiscovered Self: The Dilemma of the Individual In Modern Soceity.” Jung rarely talked about politics in his work. In fact I’m quite sure this was the only time he did, only in reference to his individualism (so for those of you looking for a book centered […]
Posted in critical culture, philosophy, politics on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
This ideological approach is needed to legitimate predominant relations of domination (obtaining primarily among a ruling elite of experts, professionals, politicians, etc., and a well-administered citizenry) as being neutral and natural. Not only does this framework require automatic dismissal of all other modes of political organization, but also discrediting ideas perceived to be their ideological […]
Posted in politics, spiral dynamics on Mar 17th, 2008 No Comments »
White House Chief of Staff, Joshua Bolten, and Tony Blair’s Office Request Information Regarding Spiral Dynamics from Dr. Don E. Beck of Adizes Graduate School
© Business Wire 2008
- Mr. Bolten requested details for President Bush regarding Dr. Beck’s recent high profile meetings in the Middle East. Tony Blair’s office, as the official Envoy of the […]
Posted in adult learning, cognitive psychology, critical thinking, experiential learning, politics, psychology on Mar 7th, 2008 No Comments »
Hillary Clinton: “Experience not only counts, it is all that counts.”
Mrs. Clinton’s rhetoric here makes no account of an interesting division among Democrats. Barack Obama enjoys a substantial edge in that better educated, more affluent Democrats support him over Mrs. Clinton. How to account for this edge among people who are much more likely to […]
Posted in linguistics, politics, psychology, social psychology on Mar 3rd, 2008 2 Comments »
It’s the political season and so I’m happy to indulge two obsessive interests, politics and the social psychology of the citizenry. Actually, I don’t need a political season to be gripped, it’s always the political season in my house.
Over at Colonel Pat Lang’s blog, Sic Semper Tyrannis 2008, one of the handful of blogs I […]
Posted in humor, politics on Dec 3rd, 2007 No Comments »
I rave to let off steam over at diggeracity. I will be capturing documentation and links both pointed and humorous about the astonishing candidacy of the very dangerous Rudylini.
Meanwhile:
It staggers the mind to imagine that anyone would support a candidate who, in effect, is Cheney on steroids. Guiliani is neocon and jacobin, egomaniac and narcissist, […]
Posted in irrationality, language, politics on Jun 22nd, 2007 No Comments »
Usually a politically oriented posting is posted to Diggeracity, where I rant and rave to blow off steam. However, I offer a clipping of Dana Perrino, Deputy White House Press Secretary, addressing questions and follow-ups about this week’s odd assertion from the office of the Vice President that, in effect, the VP is in a […]
Posted in politics on May 31st, 2007 No Comments »
Looking for Ronnie @Diggeracity.
Posted in politics on May 28th, 2007 No Comments »
James Howard Kuntsler: “I’m fond of saying that if America could harness the power it wastes blowing smoke up its own ass, we could magically escape our energy-and-climate-change predicament.”
Usually I’d place this on Diggeracity, but Kuntsler’s sentiment is so widely applicable to so much of smokin’ America, what the heck. (Kuntsler, Richard Grossinger, Lewis Lapham, […]
Posted in politics, psychoanalysis, psychology on Mar 28th, 2007 No Comments »
Now, some of them believe that by delaying funding for our troops, they can force me to accept restrictions on our commanders that I believe would make withdrawal and defeat more likely. That’s not going to happen. If Congress fails to pass a bill to fund our troops on the front lines, the American people […]
Posted in cognitive psychology, politics, psychology on Nov 9th, 2006 No Comments »
Politics have been offloaded to: Diggeracity. The following remains because it’s about social psychology.
Elections interest me mostly because they’re where the rubbery cognitive complexities hit the pavement. Voter behavior is intriguing. There are no competing social actions at the scale of elections. One way or the other everybody’s individual world view, meaning scheme, folk psychology, […]
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
DailyKos highlights positions taken by Burns & Allen (!) in the aftermath of the Florida Fiasco six years ago.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
Ohio’s voice rang loud and clear yesterday.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 8th, 2006 No Comments »
For three years straight we toured the nation
When we get through we needed a vacation
We wanted to party and get a little rest
So we packed our things and headed out west
We got our surfboards took the beachball out
Jumped in a limosuine ready to wipeout
Now were ready to go
Here we go here we go
One one two […]
Posted in politics on Nov 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Joy Benedict never got back to me. She may be a wretched journalist, but she’s quick enough to understand ‘damned if you do, damned if you don’t’.
My guess is that neither she or Stark County election dude Matthews did see an advanced screen of Hacking Democracy. There’s nothing, (read: zero, zilch, nada) in her piece […]
Posted in politics on Nov 7th, 2006 No Comments »
Kate, the cat, watches election returns. She doesn’t, as far as I know, care who wins as long as her caretakers don’t become despondant.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 6th, 2006 No Comments »
If the election tomorrow is about Iraq, it’s also about a nation of citizen armchair geopolitical strategists making up their minds. Yup, each of us indulges our hunch about the war and for some of us this sense will be decisive. Presumably a vote to sustain Republican majorities in the Congress endorses the continued effort […]
Posted in civic intelligence, current events, politics on Nov 5th, 2006 No Comments »
I’m wondering if Joy Benedict at WKYC prepared a piece about a film she didn’t see. If she did, this would make her a shill for Diebold on WKYC’s payroll.
Posted in current events, politics on Nov 4th, 2006 No Comments »
It will be politics in the run-up to what I guarantee you will be the messiest election yet (more later) in the post-election reform era. (By all means ask yourself why post-reform elections aren’t cleaner than pre-reform elections.)
On November 1st WKYC Channel 3, an NBC affiliate owned by Gannett, ran the following piece by Joy […]
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