Psychologically autonomous individuals don't identify with ideology or systems of any kind. It's weird that this still has to be pointed out in the 21st century. But perhaps not surprising when investment in technology has dwarfed investment in social capital for half a century.

Rebuilding American government capacity begins with firing the consultants and the lobbyists

We are going to completely marginalize the Conservative movement and its ignorance of modern knowledge and science. We are going to finish the American Revolution by building a structure that realizes the Idea of America as a pluralistic democracy where everyone is guaranteed equal opportunity!

This is a classic case of tragedy leading to PTSD leading to another tragedy. Tragedies that will be exploited by xenophobic bigots. PTSD is highly treatable but we live in a country that is ruled by ignorant people.

Yes, and this is Evolutionary Economics 101. Necessary goods require price controls and rationing to achieve group functional outcomes. Milton Friedman and Friedrich Hayek were political philosophers. Not scientists.

Steve Witkoff, not an elected official or civil servant, is advising foreign powers on how to manipulate the cognitively impaired President of the United States.

The Trump Administration's Ukraine peace plan is the culmination of 25 years of Russian intelligence targeted manipulation of American and European Conservatives. Conservatives are now a threat to American and European security; they are almost universally indoctrinated by Russian propaganda.

Evolution selects for groups that adapt. Evolution selects against conservatives, reactionaries and radicals.

Right! Special Operations Forces will remain critical to American defense. Yes, I wrote defense. Not war. The issue is, as with all other agencies and branches of government in our 18th century institutional structure, lack of independent administrative state oversight and enforcement.

Snowballs In my Nordic culture we call tough talking wannabe heroes Snowballs because when the heat comes down they either melt or roll everyone up in tragedy

About that cost of living piece—insofar as the single biggest cost item is childcare for a dual-income family at 32k annually (which may be too high but still), its a reminder of how things might have been different had Nixon not vetoed a national childcare bill in 1971 that passed the Senate 63-17.

Exactly right! By removing the most law-abiding people in America, we mathematically and in all practical terms, raise the probability of being victims of crime.

It's really not very difficult to stop celebrating things that you learned to be abusive.

This is so important right now. AI is not intelligent. AI are immensely powerful and fast word processors that quite literally reflect the ignorance (yes, we are all ignorant) of the user. A fool will get AI foolishness. A domain expert will get AI expertise. A student cannot learn from AI

The reason that many people hang out with antisocial people in modern Westernized society is because they are conditioned to categorize human beings along totally subjective political lines that make no sense in the information/network age.

Lots of self identified "Liberals" are Patriarchal Conservatives that view women as disembodied sex objects

there are a lot of people i’d could work in concert with who i wouldn’t want to share a sleeping bag — or a tent, or even a big tent — with. we need more tents.

Why it's imperative to defeat Republicans in 2028 and shift our resources from supporting destabilizing nations like Israel, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Pakistan, to supporting Ukraine and the European Union in their fight with Russia. Peace is a reflection of justice, and peace fosters free trade.

Ken Burn's 'The American Revolution,' does a good job of showing the original conflict at the heart of the American experiment; egalitarianism versus patriarchy. What we need is institutional evolution. The hierarchical structure of our Constitution is in direct conflict with the network age.

The kind of pervasive fear that exists in America, fear that is seen everywhere in endless status seeking, posturing and bullying, is a product of the hierarchical structure of our institutions. It's a choice. Not a human universal.

As a child in an indigenous egalitarian culture I noticed something about males from patriarchal cultures; they were fearful but overconfident bullies obsessed with guns, big cars, clothes, bling, power and money. The belief that chauvinism is a human universal is itself a product of patriarchy.

There's nothing new about Social Democracy

If you've taught graduate students in a music program in the US or Canada, you know that there is a huge difference in what an MM, an MA, and a PhD offer. That's not a value judgment, it's an assessment based on experience.

Swedish Deputy PM: Sweden needs to pick its friends wisely, and we are choosing Canada… So when we come to America, we come to Canada now.

I grew up in Scandinavia in the 1960s. Everyone was educated about the nature of mind manipulation by political and religious propaganda and mass marketing. Why is the science of mind manipulation not taught to American children?

This appears to have been taken in a way I didn't intend. For the record I'm not opposed to marital sex (except in one specific case). Just making the point that Nuzzi's relationship was not that unusual and her real offence was the greatest sin of all; becoming embarrassing.

It's time for America to leave dysfunctional British institutions behind and reform our Constitution and legal system on the basis of modern knowledge and science. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Functional Democracies abolished juries decades ago because the concept is in conflict with modern knowledge and science, and thus doesn't serve justice. They are also disruptive to the lives of those that justice is supposed to serve.

Demand for financial asset yield (rent) is effectively infinite relative to any potential private market supply.

1. Deflationary pressures arise in hierarchical structures (US/UK/France/China) because they lack mechanisms to adaptively balance labor and capital, causing growth rate of inequality to outpace GDP.

i believe we could get the president to endorse deflation

Only two regions achieved near-universal literacy before the industrial age: Scandinavia and the American colonies. Both did so because literacy was not monopolized by an aristocratic hierarchy but embedded in horizontal, community-driven networks. America began as a network society

Conservatism and Patriarchal institutions are collapsing under their own weight; no undermining or pushing needed. The hierarchical structure of the ideology has been in conflict with modern knowledge and science since 1859. Trumpism is a pathetic last gasp of a maladaptive ideology.

The Western academy is a maladaptive Patriarchial structure. A hierarchical structure that produces hierarchies of departments that compete for attention and resources. The Western academy produces weird people and fruitless debates. It's time for fundamental restructuring of learning.

Again; a nation of people that allows a group to prevent institutional adaptation to massive environmental, technological, economic and cultural evolution will eventually collapse. Adapt or go extinct.

We could easily minimize bullying, abuse, violence and corruption in American society, but patriarchal and libertarian Conservatives prevent functional institutional evolution. Culture is a product of the prevailing institutional structure, not philosophy. 1/

The part of being a woman in academia where you have to constantly gut-check whether your mentor really thinks your work is good or if he’s just waiting to try something* is EXHAUSTING. * sometimes it’s both and that’s worse

Functional Democracies have independent Justice systems staffed by a representative body of citizen domain experts. We have a Justice system embedded with the Executive Branch....yet our education system is so primitive that few College educated Americans have any awareness of the dysfunction.

The failure of the Canadian plan is predetermined because it only addresses the linear/local demand for shelter (via a small tax break) without addressing the exponential/global demand for the financial asset. The latter completely dominates private market housing costs. Economics need a reboot

My critique of Libertarianism and Conservativism isn't polemical or political. It's instrumental. These ideological constructs stand in the way of conscious evolution. Specifically, institutional adaptation and evolution.

Sports dude anthropomorphizing a national media institution. The BBC, nor any institution or corporation, are persons. They are however structures. Structures are designed in different ways. British structures, including the BBC, are hierarchical and thus in conflict with the network age.

Seems like a sure fire government opportunity to recreate the most successful press freedom environment in history; Sweden.

The Nordic Model has thoughts about duration mismatches

And Centrist say that Bernie Sanders has not achieved anything?

God Bless America and our veterans. Our problem has always been weak ass, incompetent men like Pete Hegseth and Trump, not ordinary Americans of both sexes that have been and are the best at their job. newrepublic.com/post/203028/...

Authoritarian parenting is a patriarchal behavior that produces antisocial adults that use verbal, financial and physical bullying to dominate and control others. What they need is professional psychological help. We must remove them from positions of authority in order to build functional democracy

Joyce Carol Oates represents the adaptive networked intellect—the post-patriarchal alternative to intellectual bullying disguised as debate. Musk, Buckley, Vidal, and Hitchens as evolutionary relics of hierarchical intellect.

Good observation. Conservatives have desperately worked to destroy the administrative state since 1859 precisely because in functional Democracies like Sweden, the domain experts of the administrative state are professional representatives of all the people. 1/

The solution to Republican ignorance is Universal Healthcare

A growing number of incompetent men are floating to the top of maladaptive hierarchical structures slamming into the network age. Structural stagnation has given way to structural volatility. Next is collapse.