Category: Cognitive Psychology

How do primal world views help us understand the rash of shootings of people who made simple mistakes?

The Rash of Shootings for Making Simple Mistakes and Primal World Views


Reading time: 5 minutes
It seems like every time you turn around someone is getting shot for doing something dumb like getting lost or using they’re for there or sumpthin. What’s going on in our world that this is the case? Have we lost our collective minds?

What are the cognitive shortcuts that people use that cause us so many problems?

Humans are the Problem


Reading time: 6 minutes
The very things that we evolved to help us become the most dominant species on the planet are the very things that are killing us now. Find out why we can’t have nice things and maybe never will. How are we worseing our problems?

How close is the US to facing an armed insurgency? Damn close.

Civil War: Know the Warning Signs


Reading time: 6 minutes
How close is the US to facing an armed insurgency? Damn close. We’re already on the cusp of stage 3. We’re living in an anocracy. We have sharply divided identity politics dominated by white grievance. We are closer than most of us think.

Why was the death of Gilbert Gottfried good for us?

Gilbert Gottfried Dies and Burnout


Reading time: 4 minutes
Gilbert Gottfried would’ve wanted it this way. He wanted us to laugh. Laughter is the best medicine, and what ails us now is prolonged chronic stress. We need all the laughs we can get to help relieve it. It’s all explained right here and links to some of Gottfried’s best work.

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