Indigena Revisited

I hope I didn’t give anyone too much of “Great Expectations” last week, when I suggested for you to tune again this week for more enlightenment. Enlightenment is not something that happens at the drop of a hat … it crystallizes slowly. And just as trustworthy information is fertile ground for growth in enlightenment, so… Continue reading Indigena Revisited

Routing Around Irrational Media

I am working towards making the model of “Rational Media vs. Irrational Media” more simple, and easier to understand. [1] In order to do that, I feel it is imperative to come to an understanding of the extreme state of mesmerization a very large majority of populations worldwide are in. Masses of men and women… Continue reading Routing Around Irrational Media

Irrational Media’s Business Model is Propaganda

I am amazed that I apparently need to say this. I feel it ought to be as plain as saying “day-time is when it is not night-time”. I was chatting yesterday with a friend and I asked him what he thought of my approach — namely of the way I do not pay attention to… Continue reading Irrational Media’s Business Model is Propaganda

Fourth Meditation on Social Media: Natural Evolution is Better than any ASS Model Insofar as it Doesn’t Collapse

Nature is nice. Even when dinosaurs go extinct, it nonetheless makes humans who are able to write stories about them. There are long traditions of comparing theories of natural evolution with those of so-called fundamental laws of economics. A while back, for example, I wrote an entire post about ideas spread by Pareto (see “More… Continue reading Fourth Meditation on Social Media: Natural Evolution is Better than any ASS Model Insofar as it Doesn’t Collapse

Second Meditation on Social Media [GMTA:] Great Minds Think Alike :)

I dedicate this post to a woman named Laura, a quite obviously knowledgeable person I “discovered” a few weeks ago (I guess she is what is “also known as” a “virtual” acquaintance — occupying a space somewhere in between “cyberspace” and “in real life”). She disclosed to me that I sound sort of “bot-y” to… Continue reading Second Meditation on Social Media [GMTA:] Great Minds Think Alike 🙂

Whatever happened to intellectual property rights?

This question was recently raised by an excellent thinker and writer I follow (stalk?) on the Internet. Unfortunately, the vast majority of people who use the Internet are by and large unaware that they have sold pretty much all their data (see e.g. “All Your Data Are More Free to Us” or in case that… Continue reading Whatever happened to intellectual property rights?

Waking Up to Basic Literacy Skills

A little over a week ago, I was yet again reminded of how poor the literacy skills of most people — even in some of the most “technologically advanced” countries on Earth — are. Indeed, this is perhaps best depicted in the movie “Idiocracy”, which I have often quoted on this blog already. [1] My… Continue reading Waking Up to Basic Literacy Skills

“Black Out with My Rack Out”

Is “Spring Break” a rational or an irrational event? In any case, it almost seems to be a calculated irrational media event — and the quote in the title seems like a clever invitation to “click here”. [1] One thing that I believe Milton Friedman may have overlooked in his “Free to Choose” analysis, is… Continue reading “Black Out with My Rack Out”

One is Better than None

This week I met a woman from Ukraine (Tanya) who totally blew me away with how she reacted when I tried to explain to her why I prefer rational media to irrational media. I didn’t actually refer to them with these terms, because that might have been more confusing (since most “mainstream” portrayals are almost… Continue reading One is Better than None

I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob

My persistent followers (stalkers?) may have noticed by now (hopefully?) that I publish many blogs (I don’t actually count them, and sometimes I even forget that I maintain so many of them). Luckily, WordPress has a neato feature — I guess it’s an RSS feed tied to everything a WP user publishes — the feed… Continue reading I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob

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