Insights
How Politics Became Pro Wrestling – Part 1
The first of a three-part series on Eric Weinstein’s ideas about growth, stagnation, and political fakery. https://youtu.be/SZpBvfBxLxc
Chinese Influence Operations: A Machiavellian Moment
Report by Dr. Paul CHARON and Dr. Jean-Baptiste JEANGÈNE VILMER
Walden-Labs: Solutions for Self-Reliance
Collection of articles written by John Robb
The Moral Case Against Projecting Pathological Certainty
By Joe Norman. “Simply, in cases where there is vast scientific uncertainty and there exists the potential for severe harm to people and/or the environment, it is deeply immoral to project an image of science-backed certainty when adopting an advisory role to the public at large.”
Eric Weinstein: Russell Conjugation
“most words and phrases are actually defined not by a single dictionary description, but rather two distinct attributes: I) The factual content of the word or phrase.II) The emotional content of the construction.”
Jordan Hall: On Thinking and Simulated Thinking
“To think in an environment infected with simulated thinking is almost to invite a witch hunt.” By Jordan Hall
How Covert Agents Infiltrate the Internet to Manipulate, Deceive, and Destroy Reputations
(2014) By Glenn Greenwald “(1) to inject all sorts of false material onto the internet in order to destroy the reputation of its targets; and (2) to use social sciences and other techniques to manipulate online discourse and activism to generate outcomes it considers desirable.”
Gulag Archipelago and The Wisdom of Solzhenitsyn
“We have to condemn publicly the very idea that some people have the right to repress others. In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousandfold in the future.” By Academy of […]