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In the article “The demon-deity Maga: geographical variations and chronological transformation in ancient Egyptian demonology,” John Rogers noted that, in these archaeological texts, the reciter uses grammar to “embody” the enemy so as to control it:...
by novapsyche
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on Fri Sep 15, 2023 at 12:44 PM PDT
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You may wonder, after reading this diary, why I am returning to this well. What follows below is a response that I’d written for a DKos member who’d asked very specific, in-depth questions about my last diary, which was meant to be a pivot diary so I...
by novapsyche
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on Sun Jul 16, 2023 at 12:44 PM PDT
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Bertram Gross worked on employment and economic issues for the Senate and the President during the FDR and Truman years and went on to a career as a professor of political science and public affairs. In 1980, before Reagan was elected, he wrote...
by gmoke
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on Wed Jan 11, 2023 at 07:57 PM PST
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That capitalism spreads and indoctrinates its crop of managers from the middle class (bourgeoisie) to run its businesses or own them means that these subclasses, but especially the latter, are trained and rewarded to think in strictly sociopathic ways....
by novapsyche
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on Mon Aug 22, 2022 at 07:17 AM PDT
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The Supreme Court continued its scorched-earth policy this week, handing down extreme reinterpretations of the Constitution and settled law. It is apparent that SCOTUS, as an institution, has decided to become an apparatus of certain ruling powers and...
by novapsyche
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on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 08:46 AM PDT
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When the brain is diseased, in certain states, it degenerates. The inner portion, as opposed to the cortex, sees nearly all of its neurons sheathed in a fatty substance called myelin. It’s this myelin that allows the fast conductance of electrical...
by novapsyche
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on Tue Jun 28, 2022 at 07:00 AM PDT
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For nearly the last three years, I have been doing all I can to understand, to really grok this movement that has grown around Donald Trump. Beginning with The True Believer by Eric Hoffer and They Thought They Were Free by Milton Mayer, I realized...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Jun 23, 2022 at 10:54 AM PDT
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from The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen Mineola, NY: Dover, 1994 [originally published 1899] (ISBN 0-486-28062-4) (page 49) So, those offices which are by right the proper employment of the leisure class are noble; such as government,...
by gmoke
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on Mon Jun 20, 2022 at 04:02 PM PDT
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Just as with the pincer attack conservatives have launched against both race directly (instead of sotto voce) and liberalism at the same time—now they do the same with female personhood, via attacks on abortion (criminalizing sexuality after the fact)...
by novapsyche
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on Sat Apr 16, 2022 at 08:46 AM PDT
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The topic of cults is arising with more frequency, along with brainwashing, referring to one suite of techniques those institutions may use to attract and retain members. Much of the country has reacted with shock, horror or dismay at the text messages...
by novapsyche
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on Fri Apr 08, 2022 at 01:00 PM PDT
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I’m going to put forth informed conjecture about what I think may be happening within a particular subpopulation of COVID-19 sufferers. By no means do I mean to say that all persons affected by Covid will be so affected, or even all those who have...
by novapsyche
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on Mon Apr 04, 2022 at 05:00 PM PDT
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This week, both Slate and The Atlantic came out with articles featuring analysis performed by Robert Pape and his research team at the University of Chicago. (Both articles reference the same research.) The data, collected and scrutinized last year,...
by novapsyche
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on Thu Jan 06, 2022 at 07:22 PM PST
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Friday, November 19, 2021 1:00 PM in EST SPEAKER: Ravi Shroff, NYU ABSTRACT: To assess racial disparities in police interactions with the public, we compiled and analyzed a dataset detailing nearly 100 million municipal and state patrol traffic stops...
by gmoke
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on Tue Nov 16, 2021 at 09:26 PM PST
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Watching the ivermectin craze has been like opening a random page in a Choose Your Own Adventure book, reading with interest an apparent abortive ending and then trying to trace Memento-style the path backwards to the origin of the present disaster....
by novapsyche
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on Wed Sep 01, 2021 at 06:30 AM PDT
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Opinion by Hal Brown I don’t know how many Trump cultists watch late night comedy. The Guardian asks the question “why can't rightwing comics break into US late-night TV?.” A right-wing website covering entertainment comes to an entirely...
by HalBrown
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on Sat Mar 27, 2021 at 06:31 AM PDT
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Esteban Ortiz-Ospina at Our World in Data has taken a look at the results of a more granular version of a common sociological tool, the time-use survey. Such surveys ask respondents� to list all the ...
by Meteor Blades
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on Sun Dec 27, 2020 at 04:30 PM PST
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Today’s not-so-long read, courtesy of The Atlantic. Also unwelcome: the conclusion that civil unrest might soon be upon us, and might reach the point of shattering the country. In 2012, Turchin published an analysis of political violence in the United...
by grape crush
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on Thu Nov 12, 2020 at 11:14 AM PST
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Making Macroeconomics a Much More Exact Science Today macroeconomics is treated inexactly within the humanities, because at a first look it appears to be a very complex and easily confused matter. But this does not give it fair justice, because we...
by Macrocompassion
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on Fri Jul 24, 2020 at 01:32 AM PDT
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Ever since the industrial revolution, the ideal of our culture, has been the Now. Machines and mortals alike are ordered, and in many cases driven, to produce results instantly; a new machine, or variation upon an extant machine, is judged by faster...
by rahuputra1
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on Fri Jul 17, 2020 at 12:39 PM PDT
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A Surge In Girlpower: The Power, by Naomi Alderman
Nothing special has happened today; no one can say she was more provoked than usual. It is only that every day one grows a little, every day ...
by AdmiralNaismith
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on Thu Jul 02, 2020 at 11:00 AM PDT
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