Category Archives: Politics

LQCs: Stories of Religion and History and Why We Tell Them

Posted on Friday 15 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly
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LQCs: Fox and CNN, War Against Teachers and Gays, Whether Information Will Out

Posted on Thursday 14 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A few political links today.

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LQCs: Child Informants and Cycles of Progress and Tyranny

Posted on Sunday 10 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

NYT, front page article today, posted yesterday 9 Apr 2022: Spurred by Putin, Russians Turn on One Another Over the War, subtitled, “Citizens are denouncing one another, illustrating how the war is feeding paranoia and polarization in Russian society.”

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Projection and Disgust

Posted on Saturday 9 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

More on the theme of, why now? Some of the reasons are eternal; that certain themes seem to be more apparent currently may just be random variation in the news of the day. (I saw a comment somewhere about the … Continue reading →

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Globalization, Wokeness, and Trek

Posted on Friday 8 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

New York Times, David Brooks, 8 April 2022: Globalization Is Over. The Global Culture Wars Have Begun.

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LQCs: Regression

Posted on Thursday 7 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

One has to wonder, why now? New York Times, front page 7 April 2022: The Growing Religious Fervor in the American Right: ‘This Is a Jesus Movement’, subtitled, “Rituals of Christian worship have become embedded in conservative rallies, as praise … Continue reading →

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LQCs: Orientation and Gender; Life at Beginning and End

Posted on Wednesday 6 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

When you are certain of your position on some controversial issue, it’s worth considering the counterpoint to that issue, and how you would justify your position on that, to see if your positions are logically consistent.

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LQCs: False Flag Fact Checking

Posted on Tuesday 5 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

Slate, Andrew Moshirnia, 31 March 2022: Russia’s Diabolical New Approach to Spreading Misinformation.

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LQCs: Hyperbole, Ridiculous Lies, and Anti-Liberalists

Posted on Monday 4 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

A few items from recent days.

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LQCs: Doomism

Posted on Saturday 2 April 2022 by Mark R. Kelly

OnlySky, Adam Lee, 4 March 2022: Against doomism, subtitled, “Don’t confuse ‘more dramatic’ for ‘more likely’”

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