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the ruthlessness factor

Sadly, because of how power is acquired in our world, we have created a pathway to dominance in which "ruthlessness" trumps all other attributes.   Consider the events of the last 6 years from the...

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Top Ten Good News Stories of the Week (July 8-14, 2006)

Here's the Top Ten Good News Stories of the Week, published every Sunday 1) A Responsibility To Make Peace, A Letter From King Abdullah My father, the late King Hussein, often said peace is a gift that...

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Is there any alternative to war without end? (w/poll)

Americans are completely brainwashed (thanks to Bush/Chaney/Rumsfeld, neocons, and mainstream media) that we are locked in a total and permanent state of war with terror, and with Islamic extremists....

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Mything the Point of "Survivor"

In a Recent posting I went on a rant about the obscenity of Survivor's newest "offering"... and I use the term euphemistically.  A lot of people thought the title was offensive.  I agree. It was as...

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Monkey Morality: Five Criticisms of George Lakoff's Political Metaphors (Part...

In this series of five diaries, I've been critiquing George Lakoff's Nurturant Parent metaphor for the liberal worldview and using recent insights from evolutionary psychology to try to create a...

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Don't hate the game (theory): social science you can use

El Cabrero has recently become addicted to the HBO series "Deadwood," which, among other things is about how cooperation can develop in a basically lawless situation. This is also the subject of one of...

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Don't hate the game (theory): the Prisoner's Dilemma

This is the second post in a series about how one aspect of game theory can shed very practical light on many kinds of human  interactions. Here's the first. The series is inspired by the insights of...

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Don't hate the game (theory): the winning strategy

This is the third post in a series of five about how cooperation can develop in world motivated largely by self-interest. The applications from game theory can be very useful in getting things done in...

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Don't hate the game (theory): practical applications

This is the fourth post in a series of five about practical lessons from game theory as discussed by Robert Axelrod in  The Evolution of Cooperation. (Short version: there are lots in politics,...

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Don't hate the game (theory): conclusions

This is the final post on some useful aspects of game theory in trying to promote cooperation and achieve positive goals in public and private life.. Here are the first, second, third, and fourth.

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What do you expect from Germany and other European countries?

Many Germans and other Europeans believe that the United States will ask their allies to contribute more to Iraq and Afghanistan, as I have explained in German Reactions to the US Midterm Elections....

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A Spy in The House of Greed

Ernst Fehr of the Institute for Empirical Research in Economics conducted a game. The game was called "The Public Goods Game." It went like this: teams were formed, with each team having 4 individuals....

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Don't Sh*t Where You Eat

 Allow me, for a moment to put on a referee uniform, college football uni will be fine, I don’t like the new NFL uni’s, too metro for me, to offer some words of advise and guidance to both the radical...

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Celebrate Gleaning with the Boston Area Farm Gleaning Project

Wednesday, May 16 7 pm Regent Theatre, dance studio Arlington MAAn evening with refreshments, a talk on gleaning by Oakes Plimpton, and the Agnes Varda documentary The Gleaners and I (2000, France) to...

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Talking Quietly Among Ourselves.

'Evening Folks.I have a few personal thoughts to share.We are here to get Democrats elected to public office. That is the only way to start the healing process and minimize the scarring resulting from...

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My Duty to Punish Democratic Defectors.

Although this site is generally dedicated to promoting the Democratic Party, common sense tells us that support for Democrats cannot be unconditional.  It will almost be universally agreed upon that...

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Social Rickets.

Interesting exchange on another diary, in a discussion of sharing.I wrote this:A subtle and powerful point...observe: On the morning of 9/11, a friend called us immediately after the first plane...

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Letter from a "leftie" to a "rightie": Dear Mr. Berns

There has been a diary named "I Guess I'm not Pro-Choice: Sextuplets" on the rec list for some time now that, due to other tasks and commitments, I put off reading until early this morning.  I actually...

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The Failure of Competition

"Never Compete. Every competition damages your reputation. Our rivals seize occasion to obscure us so as to outshine us. Few wage honorable war. Rivalry discloses faults that courtesy would hide. Many...

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The Frames are coming! The Frames are coming! Are we ready?

Sometimes we are weakest when things seem to be going well.  I am not the first one here to express my nervousness about what we face until November.  Being both an academic and a long tome political...

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