Chad Aaron Hall

Popular graffiti (yes it even existed in the 1700s) in Massachusetts reflected some of the anti-Federalist sentiment: “Damn John Jay! Damn everyone who won’t damn John Jay! Damn everyone who won’t stay up all night damning John Jay!”

Previous research has found that the initial intuitive evaluation of high-quality art over low-quality art is attenuated in non-ASD groups when experimental manipulation encourages deliberation (Dijkstra et al., 2012). In the present study, reduced discrimination of high- and low-quality art by the autism group is consistent with the Dual Process... See more

This also fits with what I know of depression. When I've been depressed in the past, I didn't feel sad, hopeless or worthless, the way some people describe, I just didn't enjoy anything or care about anything. (I now know the term for that is "anhedonia".)

Most economic debates are about income , not wealth. When we talk about income taxes, or welfare benefits, or labor’s share of national income, we’re talking about the amount of goods and services that get created every year, and how those goods and services get allocated among the various people in a society. But in the 2010s, we saw a lot of... See more

And Donald Trump told them they are right. His prepared comments for a rally last August in West Bend, Wisconsin, north-west of Milwaukee, said this:

I am fighting for you. When we talk about the insider, who are we talking about? It’s the comfortable politicians looking out for their own interests. It’s the lobbyists who know how to insert that

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In other words, the total amount of wealth the world could actually spend all at once is a lot less than the $454 trillion it has on paper. Selling off many of the world’s assets at once would crash the price of those assets, and a lot of that $454 trillion would just vanish into thin air.

The more we share and comment on clips of people throwing soup over paintings, or graffitiing on memorials, or vandalizing mosques, or blocking roads, or spraying orange paint at airports, or pitching tents on university campuses, the more we’ll see such events recur in real life.