Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World, led a fascinating life that included a battle with blindness, farm labor, pacifism and psychedelics. The quote below, obtained from Quotationary by Leonard Roy Frank, provides insight as to how and why interest groups function.
Human beings have a strong tendency towards rationality and decency. (If they had not, [...]
Unlike ACORN, the Tea Parties are not likely to be crushed by external sources. They disproportionately serve the wealthy and well-educated who can come up with the resources and connections to withstand attacks. For example, Fox News was behind a “sting” that helped to bring ACORN down, though it was later discovered that they distorted [...]
ACORN and the National Tea Party Federation were/are both community organizers in their own separate ways. However, neither organized communities in the natural sense of that word. People who belong to each other due to their living situation forms a community, independently of class, beliefs, education, etc., etc. ACORN and NTPF each catered to a [...]
I recently stumbled upon some old news about ACORN, the now defunct organization whose main purpose was to register the disenfranchised to vote. The alleged purpose of the now popular Tea Parties is to protest centralized government. With the advantage of hindsight I was struck by the similarities between ACORN and the National Tea Party [...]
On the face of it, turning Tea Parties into a federation is a good thing from my perspective as a staunch advocate of federation. However, this movement towards “Federation” actually reinforces my earlier criticisms of the Tea Parties as special interest groups. It is really akin to putting lipstick on a pig.
For those who don’t [...]
The essence of misinformation is to claim the normal is abnormal and vice-versa. Normally, the main attribute of conservatism is stability. Normally, since the time of Hobbes (and probably before) conservatism aligns itself with established order. Normally, chaos and anarchy are the chief evils to society that the Conservative wishes to thwart. Normally, the Conservative [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Initial Misinformation Methods
Last week I began with a deconstruction of Mark Levin’s Liberty and Tyranny, going over the three basic types of information (dogma, omission, distortion) found in the first chapter. To recap, Levin takes a dogmatic approach to knowledge and politics, which historically retards progress and prevents learning from experience. A center point of Chapter One [...]
Continue reading about Liberty and Tyranny – Initial Misinformation Purpose
Even as I post this I am at work on a new book in which the order of these principles will be different. I’ll continue with the order I have started and then group the misinformation principles in their new order before moving on to the deconstruction of Liberty and Tyranny.
Misinformation Principle #7 is that [...]
The sixth misinformation principle is that misinformation requires more resources than information. Rumors can be started without much effort, but the most useful misinformation persuades people to ignore, deny or reinterpret what their own experiences would otherwise be telling them.
In Systems out of Balance I report on the almost comical activities of Monsanto in regards [...]
The recent series about how the founding fathers deplored political parties leads well into the next misinformation principle. We are misinformed through dogma or branding and nothing illustrates that better than party or think tank ideologies.
Humans are an incredibly diverse species. To put this in perspective, bees are among the most social organisms in the [...]
