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Thursday, December 31, 2020

The Last Year In Books ... Actually Read - 2020





The Last Year In #Books ... Actually Read 2020 - #Problems Understood Better But Not Solved - #Politics #Evolution #Religion #Accountability #Vision #Psychology #BeingMammal #BeingHuman #Science

Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Why I Blog, COVID and Life after 1,000,000 ...

 

Most of what we think we know we really don't. We accept a narrative that someone else has provided us. Sometimes we're educated and intelligent about it but mostly we aren't. How many people really know what messenger RNA is. How previous vaccine technology is so different from what was used to create this vaccine. How many people know that it was probably 100 years of scientific research to get to this point to be able to do this. That's what I'm thinking about. Think critically always.


Why I #Blog, #COVID and #Life after #1,000,000 ...

Thursday, December 10, 2020

Georgia Election - Says It All About TRUMP: A Conspiracy of Silence

 A Conspiracy of Silence ... from Hidden Brain

"We all self-censor at times. We keep quiet at dinner with our in-laws, or nod passively in a work meeting. But what happens when we take this deception a step further, and pretend we believe the opposite of what we really feel? This week on Hidden Brain, economist and political scientist Timur Kuran explains how our personal, professional and political lives are shaped by the fear of what other people think."



The list is growing?  In another episode, "Moral Combat" it is noted that for people who have "moral convictions" they do not worry about the "means" by what they think is right gets done, just so it gets done.  Very worrisome.  I would prefer to think these politicians are just being cowards and/or opportunists.

A moral conviction is just something that you believe in very strongly.  If these politicians really think Trump really won the election let's hope SCOTUS does not think that way.


#Georgia Election - Says It All About #TRUMP: A Conspiracy of Silence - #GeorgiaElection - A #President as Bully - #Republican Heroes or #GOP Cowards ?  #SCOTUS

Friday, September 4, 2020

ReadingLists/PodCasts/Video: C-SPAN - The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy - 7/20/2020

 Katherine Gehl, co-author of The Politics Industry: How Political Innovation Can Break Partisan Gridlock and Save Our Democracy





... SO, AS YOU JUST NOTED, OUR BOOK IS CALLED "THE POLITICS INDUSTRY," AND WE LOOK AT POLITICS, NOT GOVERNMENT, BUT POLITICS, THE COMPETITION BETWEEN POLITICIANS, AND ALL OF THE SURROUNDING ACTORS, AS AN INDUSTRY, NOT BECAUSE IT'S THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN LOOK AT IT, BUT BECAUSE IT'S SUPER HELPFUL TO LOOK AT IT THIS WAY, WHICH IS TO SAY WE, AS AMERICANS, ARE VERY USED TO BEING CONSUMERS. WE'RE USED TO BEING CUSTOMERS. BUSINESS PEOPLE ARE USED TO THINKING ABOUT HOW TO GROW THEIR COMPANIES AND GET MORE REVENUE AND MORE GROWTH FOR THEIR COMPANIES, ETC. SO, WHEN WE LOOK AT POLITICS AS AN INDUSTRY, IT HELPS US, EITHER AS CUSTOMERS OR AS BUSINESS LEADERS, TO BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND WHY IT'S SO DYSFUNCTIONAL. I'LL JUST GIVE A HINT AT IT. WHAT WE LOOK AT THE INTEREST, THE PUBLIC INTEREST, THE CITIZEN, IS NOT THE MOST IMPORTANT CUSTOMER. AND POLITICS IS NOT BROKEN. IT'S ACTUALLY WORKING EXACTLY HOW IT'S DESIGNED TO WORK. BUT IN THE POLITICS INDUSTRY, WHEN WE LOOK UNDERNEATH THE HOOD, THE POLITICS INDUSTRY HAS NOT BEEN DESIGNED TO PUT THE PUBLIC INTEREST AND SELLING PROBLEMS FOR CITIZENS. IT'S BEEN DESIGNED TO PUT THE INTERESTS IN THE POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX, WHICH IS WHAT WE CALL THESE POLITICIANS AND THE LOBBYISTS AND THE CAMPAIGN CONSULTANTS IN THE MEDIA, EVERYBODY INVOLVED IN THE BUSINESS OF POLITICS, WE CALL IT THE POLITICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX. THE HISTORY HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO PUT THEM FIRST. AND WHAT WE SEE IS, THAT'S WORKING. IT'S WORKING SUPER WELL. WE DON'T EVEN NEED THE AVERAGE VIEWER OF THIS TO LOOK AT STATISTICS. THEY CAN JUST LOOK AT IT FOR A MOMENT. YEA, YOU KNOW, TOTALLY MAKES SENSE. WE CAN SEE ALL THE TIME WASHINGTON, D.C. IS THRIVING. THERE'S MORE COMMERCIALS. IT SEEMS EVERYBODY HAS MORE POWERFUL AND MORE MONEY AND MORE, MORE, MORE. BUT, II, THE CUSTOMER, THE VOTER, ARE SUPER DISSATISFIED. HOW IS THAT RIGHT? AND SO, BY AGAIN, LOOKING AT IT AS AN INDUSTRY, WE EXPLAIN WHAT'S GONE WRONG. BUT THE PURPOSE FOR THAT EXPLANATION IS SOLELY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE IN THAT DYSFUNCTIONAL DESIGN COULD WE INTERVENE TO CHANGE THE DYNAMICS SO THAT THE PUBLIC INTEREST BECOMES THE MOST IMPORTANT CUSTOMER? AND THAT'S WHAT WE ASK OURSELVES. WE ANALYZE, WE DIAGNOSE, AND WE ESSENTIALLY PRESCRIBED BECAUSE WE CAN NOW IDENTIFY THE MOST POWERFUL CHANGES WE COULD MAKE. ...



#PoliticsIndustry #PublicInterest #DuOpoly Saving Our #Democracy #Gehl #Porter #HarvardBusinessSchool #InstituteForPoliticalInnovation - Bring about #BiPartisanship