In my last blog series I asked whether the social turmoil that now surrounds us could simply be framed as Capitalism vs Socialism. In this post I would like to look at Capitalism vs Socialism from a slightly different perspective by using the lens of what cognitive scientists call cultural cognitive maps. Sure, we often […]

Welcome to Part 2 where we will look at Capitalism vs Socialism proper. For reference, here are the books I read to get me up to speed on what Dinesh D’Souza calls the “New Civil Cold War”: The Hidden History of the The American Dream by Thom Hartmann The Hidden History of Democracy by Thom Hartman […]

The culture wars can be framed using various dichotomies: Capitalism vs Socialism Strict Father vs Nurturant Parent Left Brain vs Right Brain Middle Brain vs Upper Brain Conservatives vs Liberals MAGA vs DEI Old Testament vs New Testament I’m sure there are other such dichotomies out there, but I think you get the picture. Regardless […]

Let us now turn to possible solutions. For this final installment, I’ll use a bullet point format. Let’s start with a couple of the solutions Galloway introduces in his TED Talk, which was talked about in the first part of this series. • Age-gate Social Media—As mentioned earlier, Galloway suggests that access to social media […]

In my last post I ended by talking about information scientists and cyberneticists of the 1940s, 50s, and into the 60s, and their wish to divorce information from body, to dissociate body from mind. Why on Earth would these scientists knowingly wish to bring on such divorce, such dissociation? In her book How We Became […]