Most people know nothing about risk management because it sounds like a high-up corporate function, but for all countries, organizations, and individuals it serves an important role. All of us manage and mitigate risk, and make our decisions based on that calculation. It takes many forms. For example, the FBI lists the most dangerous groups […]
We can forgive our ancestors for seeing a demon-haunted world mainly because most people are demonic in their behavior. That is, they take great delight in wrecking anything good while insisting that what they are doing is actually good; they relish lies and hate sanity. You can see this in the vast wave of denial […]
Amerikan cities frequently elect extremely progressive municipal governments. These are people who believe in rigorous equality and maximum individual freedom to indulge whatever lifestyle a person may choose. As such, these municipalities are often governed by the general principal that all people are equal, regardless of their obvious differences in intelligence, drive, family background, et […]
Псалъэ гуауэкIэ фымыуэ, Фи гум ивмыгъэкI гущIэгъу. ПцIы фыупсу фыщымыуэ, Псалъэ пэжыр фщIы ныбжьэгъу. Do not fire words that hurt and scar From thy heart compassion cast not afar Do not trip thy soul and pronounce lies Make thy words, my friend, true and wise – Leonid Dudey “True White” In American public discourse, the […]
The Statue of Liberty poem means the exact opposite of what immigrant welfare advocates think In 1885, two years after the poem was published, Congress passed the Contract Labor Law of 1885, which forbade advertising or transporting immigrants to come here for cheap labor. Section 5 of that act explicitly exempted higher-skilled professionals from this […]
Myanmar forces Rohingya to accept cards that preclude citizenship: group Politics involves sleight-of-hand. While the mark watches the right hand, the left hand switches the cards or hides the coin or whatever it must do to make “magic” work. Then the crowd oohs and aahs and applauds, since a crowd has no real agency except […]
Organization and organizations form the basis of all human activity. To get anything done, you have to have a plan, methods, goals, and hierarchy. Disorganized activity produces bad results. Repeated activities beget institutions known as organizations which preserve knowledge and skill. This creates a new problem, which is that the organization itself becomes a target […]
You would never guess it from media sources, but a lot is going well. We can all make a positive difference as opposed to a negative one. Here’s one where the good guys are totally winning. A team of researchers from the University of Maryland, the State University of New York and NASA’s Goddard Space […]
Bangladesh may ‘force’ 100,000 Rohingya to resettle on uninhabited island Fractured by diversity for decades, Bangladesh looks toward ending diversity the old fashioned way, namely by relocating the non-majority population to its own space. This shows us the first step in how societies deal with the repeated failure of diversity, which is to create Chinatowns. […]
Humans have a built-in flaw: we struggle for order in our minds, and we project our need for order onto the world. We like nice fat grids made in square lines with equal divisions and nice even numbers, not the mess of curves, miscellany, and partial shapes of nature. This is why the ancients emphasized […]
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