religion

  • The Physics of The Con

    What people want is someone to blame… what they need is someone to guide them. The word “Con”, in the title Con Artist, stands for Confidence. How the physics of a Con works is that the Con Artist artificially builds… Continue reading

  • The Cybernetics of Release

    Emotional Labor is the work of building, maintaining, and releasing relationships. Relationships can be built, maintained, and released randomly, but we have evolved cultural processes to facilitate these things to minimize mistakes and misdirection, confusion and chaos, and pain and… Continue reading

  • Balancing The Group Mind

    According to this Freudian model of the psyche, the id is the set of uncoordinated instinctual trends; the super-ego plays the critical and moralizing role; and the ego is the organized, realistic part that mediates between the desires of the… Continue reading

  • Culture

    Culture: the totality of socially transmitted behavior patterns, arts, beliefs, institutions, and all other products of human work and thought. — From The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition. A society’s culture can either be a tool… Continue reading

  • Good Government

    The pursuit of sustainability is the only reason for a government to exist. Otherwise, if a government did not pursue sustainability, people would be better off on their own. Good government should never allow anything or anyone to become more… Continue reading

  • The Destructive Cycle of Creation

    Wealth creates immaturity.Economic success enables a civilization to become irresponsible. People don’t see it… that is the nature of wealth. The environment is harsh, unforgiving, and without master – it requires us to find a balance with and within it.… Continue reading