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explainerrhea Glut of “explainer” content consisting of superficial research without real expertise and stock footage. Same usefulness as gossip. No depth. Creates the illusion of knowledge. No subtly or details. Johnny Harris and John Oliver are examples. VPN salesman.

explainerrhea: Glut of “explainer” content consisting of superficial research without real expertise and stock footage. Same usefulness as gossip. No depth. Creates the illusion of knowledge. No subtly or details. Johnny Harris and John Oliver are examples. May be well-intentioned, but lack expertise, thus spreading amateur information.

Ubuntu

Military Industrial Complex

Fairytale Industrial Complex

Attention Industrial Complex

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Themes

Parsimony

Hyper-individualism: delusion of self-empowerment, lack of empathy, over-simplistic understanding of the world, obsession with financial success, wealth hoarding, illusion of equal opportunity,

?Moloch, Meditations on Moloch

truly: celebrating difference, maintaining a sense of wonder, confronting the extreme.

Role Models worth learning from

孫運璿 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Yun-suan Engineer credited with transforming Taiwan from agricultural economy to export powerhouse.

5 Kinds of International Lies

Prof John Mearsheimer, Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics

1. Inter-state lies: Leader of a country lies to the leader or people of another country. (ie. Cold War, U.S. bluffing they would use nuclear weapons against the Soviet Union)
2. Fear-mongering: Leader lies to their own people. (ie. U.S. lying about Vietnam, Iraq, Libya, etc)
3. Strategic Coverups: (ie. Kennedy lying about the deal cut with Kruschev)
4. Nationalist Myths: all states mythmaking
5. Liberal Lies:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offensive_realism

Memorable Comedy

• Monty Python
• Serenity
• Parks & Rec
• South Park
• I am the very model of a modern major general!
• comedy songs

Corrigibility

Capability of being corrected, reformed, or improved.

Full Story

When I first learned about the Vietnam War in the high school I attended in Chicago, we were taught about the Gulf of Tonkin Incident, a lie used by the US Government to go beyond bombing with planes to invading with troops. We learned about the fighting, the anti-war movement in the US, the role the media played in humanizing the soldiers fighting in a pointless battle. But what always bothered me, was that our class NEVER, not once, heard from the people of Vietnam. Not once

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