At the end of my last post I mentioned that I would create an appendix consisting of a set of notes I took during one of my several reads through the book Changing Visions. I didn’t date my notes but I imagine they are from the 2000s somewhere. Here are those notes in edited form […]

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 […]