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What is the Fundamental Difference that Separates People Politically?

Phil Mayes Apr 29, 2024 Tagged with Democracy, Emotions, Fear
What is the Fundamental Difference that Separates People Politically?

Political positions are emotional as well as rational, and depend on the degree of trust in…

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How To Balance Individualism And Community In Society

Phil Mayes Apr 20, 2024 Tagged with Individuality
How To Balance Individualism And Community In Society

People are neither completely social like ants, nor completely independent like most spiders. We have characteristics…

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Life Begins at Conception and Roe v. Wade was Correct

Phil Mayes Jun 24, 2022 Tagged with Supreme Court
Life Begins at Conception and Roe v. Wade was Correct

If I invite you to dinner and for dessert, serve you raw eggs on a bed …

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Is Autocracy coming?

Phil Mayes Dec 11, 2021
Is Autocracy coming?

Chauncey Devega prophecies loudly and often about the risk of authoritarianism in the US: https://www.salon.com/2021/12/10/democracy-doom-loop/ https://www.salon.com/2021/11/15/american-democracy-is-on-the-treadmill-of-doom-how-do-we-get-off/ …

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How the Populist Movements Compare to the Hippies

Phil Mayes Sep 6, 2019 Tagged with Populism
How the Populist Movements Compare to the Hippies

.The right-wing populist movements here and in the UK are driven by anger. They justify disruption …

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Why Do We Believe What We Believe?

Phil Mayes May 21, 2019 Tagged with Beliefs
Why Do We Believe What We Believe?

Why do we believe what we believe, and how is it possible that we differ so…

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What We Have Here is a Failure to Communicate

Phil Mayes Apr 16, 2019 Tagged with confirmation bias, Fear

I offer this Reddit discussion about the FOX News article Honduran man charged with raping, killing jogger …

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The Four Forces Driving Political Conflict

Phil Mayes Aug 31, 2018 Tagged with Democracy, Fear, Haidt
The Four Forces Driving Political Conflict

Years ago, I thought I was going to die. The streets were dark and slick with …

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Why There is a Crisis of Fake News

Phil Mayes Apr 23, 2018 Tagged with Internet

Call it the law of unintended consequences. The internet is a disruptive technology comparable to the …

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Welcome to the New World of Perpetual War

Phil Mayes Feb 7, 2018 Tagged with War

It’s a New World of Perpetual War: US has been at war in Afghanistan for 17+ …

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