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The social psychologist John Bargh has an elegant demonstration of the ways fear can affect political ideology.

Ethan Zuckerman • Mistrust: Why Losing Faith in Institutions Provides the Tools to Transform Them

Conant wanted to create a nation with more social mobility and less class conflict. He presided during a time, roughly the middle third of the 20th century, when people had lavish faith in social-engineering projects and central planning—in using scientific means to, say, run the Soviet economy, or build new cities like Brasília, or construct a sys... See more

David Brooks • How the Ivy League Broke America

La doctrina del shock: El auge del capitalismo del desastre (Estado y Sociedad) (Spanish Edition)

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David Lang: Most scientists are under tremendous pressure to constantly publish. That realization caused me to view scientific expertise through the lens of incentives. I’m nervous to use that language, because it’s the same line that conspiracy theorists use to deny and obfuscate facts, but I do think it’s the fault line.

future.a16z.com • 21 Experts on the Future of Expertise - Future

The revolutions in biotech and infotech are currently being started by engineers, entrepreneurs, and scientists who are hardly aware of the political implications of their decisions, and who certainly don’t represent anyone. Can parliaments and political parties take matters into their own hands? At present it does not seem

Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

To be fair, I don’t think they can “clean up their community”, given that their preferred area of HBD research can only pretty much only have negative outcomes for society as a whole.

I mean “means of manufacturing and distributing poison gas in urban spaces” might be an area of research, but I’m going guess that anyone who spends their time deeply ... See more

TracingWoodgrains • Reliable Sources: How Wikipedia Admin David Gerard Launders His Grudges Into the Public Record

People have talked about zombie Reaganism, but in this scenario a new coalition would be finally popping into view. And it’s a totally different carving of the political spectrum than the Reagan era. Rather than nationalists and capitalists (the right) against internationalists and socialists (the left), it’s internationalists and capitalists (left

Balaji Srinivasan • The Network State: How To Start a New Country

Le plus grand danger pour l'État est la critique intellectuelle indépendante; il n'y a pas de meilleur moyen d'étouffer cette critique que de s'attaquer à toute voix isolée, à quiconque soulève de nouveaux doutes, comme violateur profane de la sagesse de ses ancêtres. Une autre force idéologique puissante consiste à dévaloriser l'individu et à exal

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