Category: (MASS) PSYCHOLOGY
Fake News, Real News, Custom News: Facebook Information Bubble v. Flipboard
From Facebook to Flipboard. Nowadays, everyone has a custom news feed. We live in an information bubble, many in a fake news bubble. A fake news coccoon is dangerous ... Read More
Propaganda, Censorship and Other Suppression of Dissent
Book bans are censorship, gag rules are a form of suppression of dissent, and Fox News is a propaganda outlet for Trump. American freedom of speech isn't that great ... Read More
American Exceptionalism Is a Dangerously Naive Form of Nationalism
American exceptionalism is not a magic shield. In fact, the notion that a nation is a form of extreme nationalism. You aren't special or immune to fascism. Trump is proof ... Read More
Patriotism: NFL Players Kneeling for National Anthem Have American Values
What Is Patriotism? Do the NFL players kneeling during the National Anthem have American Values? Or are they disrespecting the troops? Are they patriots or traitors? ... Read More
To Livid Boy Scouts Parents: Trump’s Speech at the 2017 National Jamboree
Open letter to the angry Boy Scouts' parents, concerning Trump's speech at the 2017 National Jamboree: it's too easy for your children to "degrade themselves" -- they have an unquestioning respect for authority ... Read More
Trump and Fox News and Fake News and Sweden
Trump doesn't understand that when the President of the United States tweets Fox News fake news about Sweden (and on Presidents Day), all of Sweden lets us know it's fake news ... Read More
Lies, Disinformation and Conspiracy Theories on the Internet
Conspiracy theories and other craziness -- what to do about the disinformation and lies on the Internet that don't contribute to the betterment of mankind? ... Read More
I Pledge Allegiance — No, This Is Not the Same Post: What is Patriotism?
Two days after my last post, the daily prompt is "I Pledge Allegiance". Very funny. The question: "Are you patriotic, and what is patriotism to you" ... Read More
Hey, Real Americans Out There In Real America, What About the Real Issues?
(08-12-2015, Updated 07-15-2018) What's more important, Real Americans, staking out exactly where your Real America is or solving some of your real problems? One response to my open letter to police chief Mark Kessler by Steve Harmon includes the following line: "The Chief, God bless him, is simply trying to unpussify my America." I'm not sure he thought that through ... Read More