Prologue The MacGuffin is a literary device that moves the plot and characters forward until the story's culmination. The ring in Tolkien's Lord Of The Rings is an obvious example. Alfred Hitchcock originally coined the term, which appears essential for great storytelling. Yet, the MacGuffin may...
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That is a qualified no. Emotionally immature people, unable to reason, are tribal. This is the source of the divisiveness humanity sometimes encounters within civilization. Religion does not make emotionally immature people. Instead, they are born that way. Religion, in fact, exists to move people to...
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Dysrational Movements Are The Adult Face Of Emotional Immaturity The anti-rational (i.e., dysrational) movements Marxism, Nazism, and "wokeism" are dysrationalAn irrational person is not thinking rationally, but they can. A dysrational person is pathologically unable to think rationally. movements. Each shares a common and fundamental cause for...
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There are two kinds of capitalism. One sharpens the mind; the other dulls it (in truth, just keeps it dull). We are immersed in the latter one now: Evidence for the latter capitalistic approach is DEI. I have learned through "learningframework.com" (my avocation) that FREE WILL...
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On QUORA: How do I know the truth? Truth is established when a hypothesis meets both the necessary and sufficient conditions. Note especially that the proposed hypotheses must be disprovable. The necessary condition is met when a hypothesis explains the observed situation. The sufficient condition is met when all but one hypothesis, including unknown hypotheses, have...
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It's a tell. Here's a corollary to the above statement: The dysrational/irrational love democracy (mob/majority rule), while the rational love individualism (i.e., liberalism). The Constitutional Republic protects individualism. This is what Abraham Lincoln meant by the following: "[…] that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this...
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What is the World Economic Forum? A very dangerous (global) clown car. However, it is NOT FUNNY. I’ll let a couple of the WEF luminaries should speak for themselves: Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return...
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What lies beyond postmodernism? Reason, and only that. Welcome it. Our current civilization depends upon it. A concise history of human thinking: Click here to see a bigger image. The Roman empire ended in approximately 476 CE, and the Roman Catholic Church Era began. The Catholic Church controlled and dictated...
Read MoreNo. FIRST (crucially): AI is a decision-making solution. Humans must make societal decisions themselves, as individuals, respecting their personal wants and experiences, and accepting completely the negative or positive consequences of their decision. Otherwise, in time, and now unable to make their own decisions, they will...
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See the full-size image here. The Rise and Decline of Western Civilization Is Western democracy a failure because it is just a façade to a corrupt oligarchy that primarily serves the interests of the very wealthy? No. Western civilization is struggling. This happened because of a collapse in humanity’s belief in...
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