vl

Long ago: PhD in EAHB, etc. Now: Old. Care about: Science & sanity. Money reform & language reform. Repair Earth. Governance without politicians.

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The philosopher Rorty warned us: Drop fruitless (& dangerous) word games. https://t.co/sbJ39lDvKy

That includes ideologies built of 'fine words' that justify who gets what. They drive us insane.

Fix the real problems. Our #1 problem: Repair Earth.

Techne. Not yakking.

[Common Dreams @commondreams]

"The far right is about to get its own well-heeled global think tank," writes John Feffer, "complete with the sort of political academy that was so dear to Bannon’s plan for world domination." https://t.co/FwzNDqJZbD

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I just published No Learning. Just Doing. https://t.co/JdRENhYFUQ

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I just published ‘Behavior’ is Not a Verb https://t.co/kHpkRsBdim

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I don't believe that economic equality is possible; indeed some measure of inequality is essential for the spirit of envy and keeping up with the Joneses that is, like greed, a valuable spur to economic activity.

Boris Johnson

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I just published Objectivity, Subjectivity, and the Way of the Dodo https://t.co/ZVaouoUZg1

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I just published The Seven Deadly Sins Revisited https://t.co/1lOE0Wvfh7

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Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

W.B.Yeats

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I just published We Need a New Story https://t.co/fj8gJXZ7S1

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Of all things that have to do with communicating ideas, what could be more fascinating than the question of whether such communication is actually possible?  

Friedrich Schlegel

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A truth that's told with bad intent
Beats all the lies you can invent.

- William Blake

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"THIS year is shaping up as the year we finally began to recognise the full measure of risk posed by global climate change." Tony McMichael 2007

Yes. In 2007. That long ago.

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I just published ‘Behavior’ in Psychology Means ‘A Stimulus-Response Affair’ https://t.co/lbHKEUr9Ya

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Our social system rests to a frightening degree on the pervasive myth of social darwinism, a pseudo-historical, pseudo-biological rationalization of the status quo (almost any status quo).

J. Church, 1976.

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The behavior of [some of] the ‘best and the brightest’ might make one wonder if education is not a sure path to lunacy.

J. Church

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If we as people do not respect and take care of the Earth, we can be sure that the Earth, in the role of Gaia, will take care of us and, if necessary, eliminate us.
James Lovelock.

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I just published A Basic Language for Scientific Psychology https://t.co/2tCUaqn8vt

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I just published A Letter About Phonics https://t.co/hEJifM3dR8

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“Each one now leads many lives, none of which, however, is a full life.”

Van Melsen

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@miffyjayne @JayJay91341991 @BethCharleston #ResignMorrison

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I just published "Armchairs, and Fads and Fashions. More on Psych Terms." https://t.co/nUNLcxmAjT

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"Be like the cork in the bucket.  The more life pushes you down, the more you bob up."
- Grandma Cooper