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Most of us have circles of concern, where we care more about folks from our inner circles than our outer circles.
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Details Avoid Bias

Long ago I noted:

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Sincerity Adds To Drift

The 2008 book Ritual and Its Consequences: An Essay on the Limits of Sincerity is hard for me to understand, but I’ve been trying to figure it out, as the concepts it considers seem interesting and important:

a month ago 17 votes
Elite Confidence

Rob Henderson has a great essay summarizing the expert vs elite distinction I discussed in 6 prior posts (1 2 3 4 5 6):

2 months ago 19 votes
Surprisingly Blind

You might expect us to understand our romantic couple breakups very well.

2 months ago 16 votes
Abstraction Worsens Drift

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Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship

As is traditional here, I am taking advantage of the Fourth of July this week to write something about the United States, this time a brief discussion of the nature of civil-military relations in the United States. Civil-military relations (typically shortened to ‘civ-mil’ or sometimes CMR) is, simply put, the relationship between the broader civil … Continue reading Collections: The American Civil-Military Relationship →

5 hours ago 2 votes
The Founding Fathers and the Classics

How the Ancients influenced America

11 hours ago 2 votes
The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998

“I didn’t get TACO BELL tattooed on my knuckles for nothing!” – The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998     Directed by Penelope Spheeris in 1998, The Decline of Western Civilization III chronicles the punk lifestyle of teenagers  living in squats or on the streets in Los Angeles. Shot between July 1996 and August … Continue reading "The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998" The post The Decline of Western Civilisation III, 1998 appeared first on Flashbak.

10 hours ago 2 votes
Nomonhan, 1939

A four-month long war between Great Powers of which you have never heard

an hour ago 1 votes
Wisconsin Death Trip, 1973 – Small Town America In The Grip of Madness

For more than 60 years, Charles Van Schaick (1852-1946) worked as a photographer in the town of Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Opened in 1879, he took around 8,000 of glass plate negatives, of which approximately 5,700 are studio portraits. The Charles Van Schaick collection, now housed at the Wisconsin Historical Society in Madison, achieved … Continue reading "Wisconsin Death Trip, 1973 – Small Town America In The Grip of Madness" The post Wisconsin Death Trip, 1973 – Small Town America In The Grip of Madness appeared first on Flashbak.

2 days ago 2 votes