DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Recent Comments at Dangerous Intersection. Terri on The New Partisan ACLU You’re generous in your assessment as to why they hid the truth. I believe it wa Bill Heath on The New Partisan ACLU And another one bites the dust. I'm quickly running out of admirable institution Bill Heath on “Striving for Excellence” is now a bad thing . . . This brings to mind Denyce Graves, the foremost KRYSTAL BALL AND SAAGAR ENJETI ARE LEAVING THE HILL The Hill's Rising, featuring Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, has been an impressive change of pace from most legacy media organizations. They are leaving The Hill, to strike out on their own. Why? Start listing to the tales of corporate interference with content that Krystal and Saagar tell to Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper on Useful Idiots, beginning at min 46: I invite you to join me in CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation COLEMAN HUGHES ISSUES AN OPEN LETTER AND A STERN CHALLENGE In his analysis of Ibram Kendo's best-selling book, How to be an Anti-Racist, Coleman Hughes points to: 1) unsubstantiated claims, 2) misstated claims and 3) vague terms and 4) absurd claims from Kendi's earlier writings, such as Kendi's earlier belief that "white people are Aliens." Here is a excerpt from Hughes' discussion: Kendi says what they probably believe but are too afraid to say CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITH I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Recent Comments at Dangerous Intersection. Terri on The New Partisan ACLU You’re generous in your assessment as to why they hid the truth. I believe it wa Bill Heath on The New Partisan ACLU And another one bites the dust. I'm quickly running out of admirable institution Bill Heath on “Striving for Excellence” is now a bad thing . . . This brings to mind Denyce Graves, the foremost KRYSTAL BALL AND SAAGAR ENJETI ARE LEAVING THE HILL The Hill's Rising, featuring Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, has been an impressive change of pace from most legacy media organizations. They are leaving The Hill, to strike out on their own. Why? Start listing to the tales of corporate interference with content that Krystal and Saagar tell to Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper on Useful Idiots, beginning at min 46: I invite you to join me in CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation COLEMAN HUGHES ISSUES AN OPEN LETTER AND A STERN CHALLENGE In his analysis of Ibram Kendo's best-selling book, How to be an Anti-Racist, Coleman Hughes points to: 1) unsubstantiated claims, 2) misstated claims and 3) vague terms and 4) absurd claims from Kendi's earlier writings, such as Kendi's earlier belief that "white people are Aliens." Here is a excerpt from Hughes' discussion: Kendi says what they probably believe but are too afraid to say CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITH I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Recent Comments at Dangerous Intersection. Terri on The New Partisan ACLU You’re generous in your assessment as to why they hid the truth. I believe it wa Bill Heath on The New Partisan ACLU And another one bites the dust. I'm quickly running out of admirable institution Bill Heath on “Striving for Excellence” is now a bad thing . . . This brings to mind Denyce Graves, the foremost ADVERSE SIDE EFFECTS FROM COVID VACCINES Full disclosure: I have been doubly vaccinated with the Modern Vaccine. I have trusted ubiquitous assertions by government and health care providers, that the vaccines are safe. I knew that the vaccines were extraordinary quick to market. I wondered about their safety, but I considered the COVID virus itself to be a much greater risk. I am extremely concerned about the existence of COVID and PROGRESSIVES AND PROGRESSOPHOBIA Steven Pinker coined the term Progressophobia as "hostility to the idea of progress and a fondness for narratives of decline, decadence, degeneration, and doom. As I say in the chapter, “Intellectuals hate progress. Intellectuals who call themselves progressive really hate progress." Bill Maher delivers the evidence. CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in LENORE SKENAZY DISCUSSES FEARFUL CHILDHOODS For a child, is the world mostly a big playroom or mostly something to fear? Writer (and parent) Lenore Skenazy tells us how dramatically things have changed: Kids are being treated like babies for even longer stretches. When Jonathan Haidt, co-author of The Coddling of the American Mind, gives lectures, he often asks audience members born before 1982 to shout out what age they were first KRYSTAL AND SAAGAR'S "BREAKING POINTS" ROCKETS TO THE Only a week after splitting from The Hill's podcast, "Rising," Krystal and Saagar are celebrating. Their Independent Podcast, "Breaking Points," is already the #1 political podcast on Spotify and the #3 overall podcast. If you are tired of corporate-filtered news, give them a try. If you want open-ended conversation by inquisitive minds, this is a place for you. If you are distressed by KRYSTAL BALL AND SAAGAR ENJETI ARE LEAVING THE HILL The Hill's Rising, featuring Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, has been an impressive change of pace from most legacy media organizations. They are leaving The Hill, to strike out on their own. Why? Start listing to the tales of corporate interference with content that Krystal and Saagar tell to Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper on Useful Idiots, beginning at min 46: I invite you to join me in HERE'S WHAT IS PASSING FOR SCHOLARSHIP THESE DAYS AT THE The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association proudly asserts the following on its About Page: One of the world's most respected publications in psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) offers insightful and broad-based original articles, ground-breaking research, thoughtful plenary addresses, in-depth panel reports, perceptive commentaries, WHETHER TO HIRE IVY LEAGUE GRADUATES This article relies on some generalizations, so we need to be careful. Chemistry majors are probably much different than graduates in the social sciences. And every student should be judges on his or her own merits, not on the Zeitgeist of their school. That said, I'm now wondering whether corporations are changing their views on the plusses and minuses of hiring ivy league graduates. Here's TWENTY-FIVE U.S. BILLIONAIRE TAX-EVADERS FACE PROPUBLICA'S This will put me in a sour mood tonight, as I work on my taxes. The 25 richest people in the U.S. paid an effective tax rate of only 3.4% from 2014-2018. Krystal and Saager discuss this "phenomenal" reporting by Propublica (based on a "immense" secret trove of never-before-seen IRS records). They mention that the highest U.S. tax rate is officially 37%, for those making more than 628,000. My HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT LOCKHEED MARTIN The Woke Industrial Complex at Lockheed Martin. Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sent white male executives to a three-day diversity-training program aimed at deconstructing their “white male culture” and encouraging them to atone for their “white male privilege.”. CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and BRETT WEINSTEIN AND HEATHER HEYING URGE FURTHER SCIENTIFIC I thought the lab hypothesis was debunked based on many articles I've seen over the months, but here are two people I respect (based upon their Darkhorse Podcast), Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying, suggesting that the lab hypothesis needs to be rigorously investigated because they've noticed more than a few red flags. They further argue that until now, the lab hypothesis has been COLEMAN HUGHES ISSUES AN OPEN LETTER AND A STERN CHALLENGE In his analysis of Ibram Kendo's best-selling book, How to be an Anti-Racist, Coleman Hughes points to: 1) unsubstantiated claims, 2) misstated claims and 3) vague terms and 4) absurd claims from Kendi's earlier writings, such as Kendi's earlier belief that "white people are Aliens." Here is a excerpt from Hughes' discussion: Kendi says what they probably believe but are too afraid to say DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Recent Comments at Dangerous Intersection. Terri on The New Partisan ACLU You’re generous in your assessment as to why they hid the truth. I believe it wa Bill Heath on The New Partisan ACLU And another one bites the dust. I'm quickly running out of admirable institution Bill Heath on “Striving for Excellence” is now a bad thing . . . This brings to mind Denyce Graves, the foremost HERE'S WHAT IS PASSING FOR SCHOLARSHIP THESE DAYS AT THE The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association proudly asserts the following on its About Page: One of the world's most respected publications in psychoanalysis, the Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association (JAPA) offers insightful and broad-based original articles, ground-breaking research, thoughtful plenary addresses, in-depth panel reports, perceptive commentaries, CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people THE WOKE INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX AT LOCKHEED MARTIN The Woke Industrial Complex at Lockheed Martin. Last year, Lockheed Martin Corporation, the nation’s largest defense contractor, sent white male executives to a three-day diversity-training program aimed at deconstructing their “white male culture” and encouraging them to atone for their “white male privilege.”. THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. CASE STUDY OF HOW FACTS KEEP GETTING IN THE WAY OF A GOOD Remember how Trump tear-gassed protestors in order clear them out to take a photo-op in front of a church in Lafayette Park? Virtually every left-leaning media outlet reported this as an absolute certainty. The only problem is that this narrative is false. Glenn Greenwald takes us, step by step, through the June 1, 2020 false narrative, up to the new story, where old-fashioned tools called THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and KRYSTAL BALL AND SAAGAR ENJETI ARE LEAVING THE HILL The Hill's Rising, featuring Krystal Ball and Saagar Enjeti, has been an impressive change of pace from most legacy media organizations. They are leaving The Hill, to strike out on their own. Why? Start listing to the tales of corporate interference with content that Krystal and Saagar tell to Matt Taibbi and Katie Halper on Useful Idiots, beginning at min 46: I invite you to join me in MATT TAIBBI: THE HORSESHOE THEORY IS NOW A REAL THING This is what I am seeing too. It is based on our Americhean (American + Manichean) zeitgeist. Matt Taibbi calls it the "horseshoe theory." He has unlocked his entire article, which I highly recommend, mostly for people who (mostly) will refuse to read it, but who need to read this. The title is "Congratulations, Elitists: Liberals and Conservatives Do Have Common Interests Now." Here is an JOHN STUART MILL, SIMPLIFIED FOR CHILDREN AND IDEOLOGUES Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. ANOTHER COURAGEOUS TEACHER RESIGNS FROM A K-12 SCHOOL Teacher Dana Stangel-Plowe has resigned from Dwight-Englewood School as a matter of principle. It's becoming a recurring sad story. A dedicated teacher shouldn't have to give up her job of seven years (or potentially, career) to protect students from being steeped in poisonous ideology. Here is an excerpt from Stangel-Plowe's resignation note: During a recent faculty meeting, teachers were WEST COAST STATE LAWS RE TRANSGENDER ISSUES SURPRISE At City Journal, Abigail Shrier has written an article titled: "When the State Comes for Your Kids: Social workers, youth shelters, and the threat to parents’ rights." . She describes the journeys of several families, which are harrowing, given the state laws. What are those state laws? Shrier describes the laws of the state of Washington: Here, for instance, are the powers granted to a 13 AARON MATE RESPONDS TO TYTS HATCHET JOB BY CITING BASIC It's amazing what passes for journalism these days. Aaron Mate's frustration is also my frustration. Why is it that the "bad" guys like Aaron (and Glenn Greenwald and Matt Taibbi) needs to keep giving Journalism 101 lectures to those who refuse to take the bottom-up (facts first) approach to presenting the "news." Here is an excerpt from Aaron's recent article, "McCarthyite meltdown shows PUBLIC SCHOOL TEACHER GIVES FORCEFUL ENLIGHTENMENT Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITH I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her ABOUT "VULVA OWNERS" AND OUR NOMENCLATURE WARS More and more people cannot bear to say words like "men" and "women" anymore. Talk about "objectifying" sexuality . . . Consider this recent article from Healthline: Here's an excerpt: ‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question — Here’s What You Should Ask Instead. . . . Some do like sex and some don’t. Just like some penis owners like sex and some don’t. This question, in DAVID KOCH'S 1980 INSANE LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM When he ran for VP of the United States, David Koch wanted to outlaw mandatory seatbelts, and a whole lot more insanity. This is free market fundamentalism at its absolute destructive worst. Here are some more positions he took (this list is from the Office of Bernie Sanders): Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge the repeal ABOLISH APOSTROPHES? Arguments can even be made to eliminate apostrophes in possessives (we’ve actually done that in pronoun possessives (his, her, their, its). The apostrophe, as used in contractions, was originally implemented to warn us that something is missing. If it’s already apparent what’s missing, though, the apostrophe (at least in many

cases) seems

DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITH I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her ABOUT "VULVA OWNERS" AND OUR NOMENCLATURE WARS More and more people cannot bear to say words like "men" and "women" anymore. Talk about "objectifying" sexuality . . . Consider this recent article from Healthline: Here's an excerpt: ‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question — Here’s What You Should Ask Instead. . . . Some do like sex and some don’t. Just like some penis owners like sex and some don’t. This question, in DAVID KOCH'S 1980 INSANE LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM When he ran for VP of the United States, David Koch wanted to outlaw mandatory seatbelts, and a whole lot more insanity. This is free market fundamentalism at its absolute destructive worst. Here are some more positions he took (this list is from the Office of Bernie Sanders): Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge the repeal ABOLISH APOSTROPHES? Arguments can even be made to eliminate apostrophes in possessives (we’ve actually done that in pronoun possessives (his, her, their, its). The apostrophe, as used in contractions, was originally implemented to warn us that something is missing. If it’s already apparent what’s missing, though, the apostrophe (at least in many

cases) seems

CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE LAST 150 YEARS Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people JOHN STUART MILL, SIMPLIFIED FOR CHILDREN AND IDEOLOGUES Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. THE NEW PARTISAN ACLU This change of de facto mission has been obvious for years. The ACLU is now unapologetically partisan, which is in sharp conflict with its stated principles. This NYT new coverage of this change is better late than never. "It was supposed to be the celebration of a grand career, as the American Civil Liberties Union presented a prestigious award to the longtime lawyer David Goldberger. "STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE" IS NOW A BAD THING Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. POINTING AND PUPPIES We call our current dog "Biscotti." He is extraordinarily handsome, but not not as social as dogs I lived with earlier in my life. One thing he does extraordinarily well is how well he follows the invisible path suggested by our fingers when we point. It's almost magical to see. Now, along comes this article, which suggests a co-evolution between dogs and humans, identifying the ability to BRETT WEINSTEIN AND HEATHER HEYING URGE FURTHER SCIENTIFIC I thought the lab hypothesis was debunked based on many articles I've seen over the months, but here are two people I respect (based upon their Darkhorse Podcast), Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying, suggesting that the lab hypothesis needs to be rigorously investigated because they've noticed more than a few red flags. They further argue that until now, the lab hypothesis has been MATT TAIBBI: THE HORSESHOE THEORY IS NOW A REAL THING This is what I am seeing too. It is based on our Americhean (American + Manichean) zeitgeist. Matt Taibbi calls it the "horseshoe theory." He has unlocked his entire article, which I highly recommend, mostly for people who (mostly) will refuse to read it, but who need to read this. The title is "Congratulations, Elitists: Liberals and Conservatives Do Have Common Interests Now." Here is an THE SINNING AND SAD ATONEMENT BY THE EDITOR OF AN AMA Andrew Sullivan describes the situation and the pathetic spineless nebulous apology by the Editor of journal of the American Medical Association. I invite you to visit (and support) Sullivan's excellent substack website, "The Weekly Dish," for the full article and a steady stream of excellent writing by Andrew Sullivan. Here's an excerpt regarding the AMA Editor. This is who we are becoming: I DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITHCHLOE VALDARY THEORY OF ENCHANTMENTCHLOE VALDARY TWITTERCHLOE VALDARY BIOCHLOE VALDARY PODCASTCHLOE VALDARY WHITE FRAGILITYTHEORY OF

ENCHANTMENT

I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her ABOUT "VULVA OWNERS" AND OUR NOMENCLATURE WARS More and more people cannot bear to say words like "men" and "women" anymore. Talk about "objectifying" sexuality . . . Consider this recent article from Healthline: Here's an excerpt: ‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question — Here’s What You Should Ask Instead. . . . Some do like sex and some don’t. Just like some penis owners like sex and some don’t. This question, in DAVID KOCH'S 1980 INSANE LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM When he ran for VP of the United States, David Koch wanted to outlaw mandatory seatbelts, and a whole lot more insanity. This is free market fundamentalism at its absolute destructive worst. Here are some more positions he took (this list is from the Office of Bernie Sanders): Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge the repeal ABOLISH APOSTROPHES? Arguments can even be made to eliminate apostrophes in possessives (we’ve actually done that in pronoun possessives (his, her, their, its). The apostrophe, as used in contractions, was originally implemented to warn us that something is missing. If it’s already apparent what’s missing, though, the apostrophe (at least in many

cases) seems

DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE The Eight Stages of Critical Race Theory Courtesy of Woke Temple. At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don’t be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITHCHLOE VALDARY THEORY OF ENCHANTMENTCHLOE VALDARY TWITTERCHLOE VALDARY BIOCHLOE VALDARY PODCASTCHLOE VALDARY WHITE FRAGILITYTHEORY OF

ENCHANTMENT

I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her ABOUT "VULVA OWNERS" AND OUR NOMENCLATURE WARS More and more people cannot bear to say words like "men" and "women" anymore. Talk about "objectifying" sexuality . . . Consider this recent article from Healthline: Here's an excerpt: ‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question — Here’s What You Should Ask Instead. . . . Some do like sex and some don’t. Just like some penis owners like sex and some don’t. This question, in DAVID KOCH'S 1980 INSANE LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM When he ran for VP of the United States, David Koch wanted to outlaw mandatory seatbelts, and a whole lot more insanity. This is free market fundamentalism at its absolute destructive worst. Here are some more positions he took (this list is from the Office of Bernie Sanders): Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge the repeal ABOLISH APOSTROPHES? Arguments can even be made to eliminate apostrophes in possessives (we’ve actually done that in pronoun possessives (his, her, their, its). The apostrophe, as used in contractions, was originally implemented to warn us that something is missing. If it’s already apparent what’s missing, though, the apostrophe (at least in many

cases) seems

CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with.. . . Begging the question is closely related to circular reasoning, and in THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE LAST 150 YEARS Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people JOHN STUART MILL, SIMPLIFIED FOR CHILDREN AND IDEOLOGUES Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. "STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE" IS NOW A BAD THING Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. THE NEW PARTISAN ACLU This change of de facto mission has been obvious for years. The ACLU is now unapologetically partisan, which is in sharp conflict with its stated principles. This NYT new coverage of this change is better late than never. "It was supposed to be the celebration of a grand career, as the American Civil Liberties Union presented a prestigious award to the longtime lawyer David Goldberger. POINTING AND PUPPIES We call our current dog "Biscotti." He is extraordinarily handsome, but not not as social as dogs I lived with earlier in my life. One thing he does extraordinarily well is how well he follows the invisible path suggested by our fingers when we point. It's almost magical to see. Now, along comes this article, which suggests a co-evolution between dogs and humans, identifying the ability to BRETT WEINSTEIN AND HEATHER HEYING URGE FURTHER SCIENTIFIC I thought the lab hypothesis was debunked based on many articles I've seen over the months, but here are two people I respect (based upon their Darkhorse Podcast), Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying, suggesting that the lab hypothesis needs to be rigorously investigated because they've noticed more than a few red flags. They further argue that until now, the lab hypothesis has been MATT TAIBBI: THE HORSESHOE THEORY IS NOW A REAL THING This is what I am seeing too. It is based on our Americhean (American + Manichean) zeitgeist. Matt Taibbi calls it the "horseshoe theory." He has unlocked his entire article, which I highly recommend, mostly for people who (mostly) will refuse to read it, but who need to read this. The title is "Congratulations, Elitists: Liberals and Conservatives Do Have Common Interests Now." Here is an THE SINNING AND SAD ATONEMENT BY THE EDITOR OF AN AMA Andrew Sullivan describes the situation and the pathetic spineless nebulous apology by the Editor of journal of the American Medical Association. I invite you to visit (and support) Sullivan's excellent substack website, "The Weekly Dish," for the full article and a steady stream of excellent writing by Andrew Sullivan. Here's an excerpt regarding the AMA Editor. This is who we are becoming: I DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don't be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and perniciousness of the Woke movement. As I've researched the Woke movement over the past few months, I've come CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITHCHLOE VALDARY THEORY OF ENCHANTMENTCHLOE VALDARY TWITTERCHLOE VALDARY BIOCHLOE VALDARY PODCASTCHLOE VALDARY WHITE FRAGILITYTHEORY OF

ENCHANTMENT

I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her ABOUT "VULVA OWNERS" AND OUR NOMENCLATURE WARS More and more people cannot bear to say words like "men" and "women" anymore. Talk about "objectifying" sexuality . . . Consider this recent article from Healthline: Here's an excerpt: ‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question — Here’s What You Should Ask Instead. . . . Some do like sex and some don’t. Just like some penis owners like sex and some don’t. This question, in DAVID KOCH'S 1980 INSANE LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM When he ran for VP of the United States, David Koch wanted to outlaw mandatory seatbelts, and a whole lot more insanity. This is free market fundamentalism at its absolute destructive worst. Here are some more positions he took (this list is from the Office of Bernie Sanders): Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge the repeal ABOLISH APOSTROPHES? As I worked to write a long email on my iPhone, I found myself skipping some apostrophes because the reader certainly would understand what I was trying to communicate. This made me wonder why we users of English don't organize and officially eliminate apostrophes in many contractions. How about writing "dont" instead of "don't"? How about "cant" instead of "can't" (no one will confuse it

with

DANGEROUS INTERSECTION Lee Fang is an excellent reporter with a stellar track record.. Here is the video he posted one year ago that resulted in Fang's co-worker at The Intercept and New York Times politics reporter Astead Herndonand (and many others) calling him a racist. Fang was left twisting in the wind. HOW THE POLITICAL LEFT REJECTED FOUCAULD Insight-filled article by Ross Douthat of the NYT: "How Michel Foucault Lost the Left and Won the Right." When institutional sense-making power shift, tactics shift. Douthat persuasively identifies this shift. An excerpt: The impulse to establish legitimacy and order informs a lot of action on the left these days. The idea that the left is relativistic belongs to an era when progressives were THE WOKE ENDGAME: EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE I didn't want to be spending so much time writing about Wokeness, but it has become clear to me that this is an ideology that reverses many of the hard-earned gains we have made through the Civil Rights Movement and that Wokeness ideology leads to endless societal dysfunction. Because human flourishing important to me, I have no choice but to speak out, at a time where many of my friends and RECOGNIZING AND ESCAPING FROM KAFKA TRAPS Until now, I didn't realize there was a name a peculiar type of argument, but from now on I will recognize it as a "Kafka Trap": In The Trial, Kafka presents a totalitarian world where a man is arrested by unspecified authorities and accused of an unspecified crime. Kafka traps occurs when people are accused of something but their denials are interpreted as absolute proof that the accusation WALT DISNEY CORPORATION IS NOW FULL WOKE: SEGREGATES ITS It's 2021, the year that neo-racism and neo-segregation came into full bloom. It doesn't matter that "anti-racism" is "well intended." It is now having the same poisonous effects at Disney that it is having every else that this "training" is being forced upon students and employees. Heightened racial conflict is what a company should expect it whenever it segregates groups of its employees by THE EIGHT STAGES OF CRITICAL RACE THEORY COURTESY OF WOKE At Twitter, the Woke Temple is is known for ridiculing Wokeness through the use of cartoonish graphics, but don't be fooled. Despite the cartoonishness, the lessons of the Woke Temple are well-researched and accurate. They repeatedly get at the heart of the misguidedness and perniciousness of the Woke movement. As I've researched the Woke movement over the past few months, I've come CHLOE VALDARY DISCUSSES CRITICAL RACE THEORY TRAINING WITHCHLOE VALDARY THEORY OF ENCHANTMENTCHLOE VALDARY TWITTERCHLOE VALDARY BIOCHLOE VALDARY PODCASTCHLOE VALDARY WHITE FRAGILITYTHEORY OF

ENCHANTMENT

I’ve followed Chloe Valdary on Twitter for many months. She is nuanced and kind-hearted, the diametric opposite of most advocates of critical race theory. In her hour-long discussion with journalist Christopher Rufo, Valdary compared and contrasted the typical training in critical race theory to the training Valdary developed, which she calls “Theory of Enchantment.” She describes her ABOUT "VULVA OWNERS" AND OUR NOMENCLATURE WARS More and more people cannot bear to say words like "men" and "women" anymore. Talk about "objectifying" sexuality . . . Consider this recent article from Healthline: Here's an excerpt: ‘Do Vulva Owners Like Sex?’ Is the Wrong Question — Here’s What You Should Ask Instead. . . . Some do like sex and some don’t. Just like some penis owners like sex and some don’t. This question, in DAVID KOCH'S 1980 INSANE LIBERTARIAN PLATFORM When he ran for VP of the United States, David Koch wanted to outlaw mandatory seatbelts, and a whole lot more insanity. This is free market fundamentalism at its absolute destructive worst. Here are some more positions he took (this list is from the Office of Bernie Sanders): Here are just a few excerpts of the Libertarian Party platform that David Koch ran on in 1980: “We urge the repeal ABOLISH APOSTROPHES? As I worked to write a long email on my iPhone, I found myself skipping some apostrophes because the reader certainly would understand what I was trying to communicate. This made me wonder why we users of English don't organize and officially eliminate apostrophes in many contractions. How about writing "dont" instead of "don't"? How about "cant" instead of "can't" (no one will confuse it

with

CIRCULAR THINKING 101: IBRAM KENDI'S DEFINITION OF RACISM Ibram X. Kendi is exulted as an intellectual leader by most people who peddle in Critical Race Theory. The movement is purportedly concerned with "racism." What is racism? Click the image of John McWhorter's Tweet below to watch a one-minute video: Here is Kendi's definition of "racism" in writing: "A collection of racist policies that lead to racial inequity that are substantiated by racist JOHN STUART MILL, SIMPLIFIED FOR CHILDREN AND IDEOLOGUES Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE IN THE LAST 150 YEARS Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. JOHN MCWHORTER DISCUSSES ANTI-RACISM WITH BILL MAHER Linguistics Professor John McWhorter sat down with Bill Maher on a recent episode of Real Time to discuss "anti-racism." McWhorter describes himself as someone who is hearing things that don't make sense and his quest is to try to obsessively make sense of things like "anti-racism." The interview was as intense as it was fast-moving. Several take-aways: A) "Anti-racism" condescends to people THE NEW PARTISAN ACLU This change of de facto mission has been obvious for years. The ACLU is now unapologetically partisan, which is in sharp conflict with its stated principles. This NYT new coverage of this change is better late than never. "It was supposed to be the celebration of a grand career, as the American Civil Liberties Union presented a prestigious award to the longtime lawyer David Goldberger. "STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE" IS NOW A BAD THING Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on consumer law litigation and appellate practice. Has often writes about cognitive science. He also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. BRETT WEINSTEIN AND HEATHER HEYING URGE FURTHER SCIENTIFIC I thought the lab hypothesis was debunked based on many articles I've seen over the months, but here are two people I respect (based upon their Darkhorse Podcast), Brett Weinstein and Heather Heying, suggesting that the lab hypothesis needs to be rigorously investigated because they've noticed more than a few red flags. They further argue that until now, the lab hypothesis has been POINTING AND PUPPIES We call our current dog "Biscotti." He is extraordinarily handsome, but not not as social as dogs I lived with earlier in my life. One thing he does extraordinarily well is how well he follows the invisible path suggested by our fingers when we point. It's almost magical to see. Now, along comes this article, which suggests a co-evolution between dogs and humans, identifying the ability to MATT TAIBBI: THE HORSESHOE THEORY IS NOW A REAL THING This is what I am seeing too. It is based on our Americhean (American + Manichean) zeitgeist. Matt Taibbi calls it the "horseshoe theory." He has unlocked his entire article, which I highly recommend, mostly for people who (mostly) will refuse to read it, but who need to read this. The title is "Congratulations, Elitists: Liberals and Conservatives Do Have Common Interests Now." Here is an RELIGION TO THE LEFT OF ME, RELIGION TO THE RIGHT New religions are springing up in America, both on the left and the right. Click these Tweets and weep. You'll learn some surprising things. For instance, "Our Constitution is based on the Bible, Period!" BTW, this is also what Michael Flynn is up to these days: And here is the religion to the left of me: As you can hear, above, you will learn things like this from properly indoctrinated

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* Post comments:__0 Comments I majored in philosophy many years ago and I found this field of study, in equal parts, exciting and frustrating. Far too often, it seemed like an exercise in semantics. I found most articles in traditional philosophical journals to be tedious, pedantic, hair-splitting and boring. That said, some of the most hotly debated controversies in philosophy are alive and well. For instance, the philosophy of science is a field rife with simple-looking terms that turn out to be extremely fraught. One of those terms is "explanation." What is an "explanation?" During a cognitive science seminar at Washington University, I once asked Philosopher Andy Clark how to distinguish "descriptions" from "explanations." Clark wryly replied: "An explanation is a description that makes you feel good." Why is the proper definition of explanation so important?  Because many of our current (non-philosophical) debates stalemate over whether the other side has adequately "explained" something. So how can we determine whether someone has properly "explained" something? Philosopher of science Bas Van Fraassen wrote that an explanation is an answer—an informative description evaluated pursuant to the context established by a particular question—a request for a specific kind of information.  That makes intuitive sense to me, but the devil is in the details. Because we often attempt to explain things in terms of causation, the topic of "explanation" has a large overlap with "causation." Many philosophical luminaries have grappled with "causation," including David Hume ("constant conjunction"), Karl Popper and Nicholas Tinbergen (who offers four types of causation).

Upstarts

Mark Johnson and George Lakoff have pain-stakingly analyzed causation in terms of conceptual metaphors and their entailments

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concluding that causation is: > a radial category of extraordinary complexity. In that complex > radial category, there is no set of necessary and sufficient > conditions that covers all the cases of causation. Therefore, > causation as we conceptualize it is not a unified phenomenon. It > does not simply designate an objectively existing category of > phenomena, defined by necessary and sufficient conditions and > operating with a single logic in the mind-independent world. In short, Johnson and Lakoff indicate that "causation" is not one simple thing. Far from it. Lakoff further elaborates: > The science and the social sciences all use causal theories, but the > metaphors for causation can vary widely and thus so can the kinds of > causal inferences you can draw. Again, there is nothing wrong with > this. You just have to realize that causation is not just one thing. > There are many kinds of modes of causation, each with different > logical inferences, that physical, social, and cognitive scientists > attribute to reality using different metaphors for causation. Again, > it is important to know which metaphor for causation you are using. > Science cannot be done without metaphors of all sorts, starting with > a choice of metaphors for causation. Most interestingly, if you look > at the history of philosophy, you will find a considerable number of > "theories of causation." When we looked closely at the philosophical > theories of causation over the centuries, they all turned out to be > one or another of our commonplace metaphors for causation. What > philosophers have done is to pick their favorite metaphor for > causation and put it forth as an eternal truth. Why am I writing about these topics? Again, getting a grasp on the meaning and function of "explanations" has repercussions far beyond philosophy and far beyond science. It is relevant every time any person makes a claim. This includes political and moral claims. Getting clear on the meaning and function of "explanations" relate to most of the words that come out of your mouth whenever you are trying

to be "serious."

The above ideas have been my starting points for exploring this topic of the functions of explanations. For years, I have been working on a much longer analysis of these critically important ideas. To be continued . . .

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What is an Explanation? Why is it Important to Explore this Topic? WHAT IS A CULT? DESCRIPTIONS FROM CULT EDUCATION INSTITUTE * Post author:__Erich Vieth * Post published:__November 22, 2020 * Post category:__Addictions

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* Post comments:__0 Comments There's a lot of accusations that Americans on both the political right and left are now members of "Cults." What exactly is a cult? After doing a bit of research, I found these helpful descriptions / definitions / traits of Cult Leaders and their followers from the Cult Education Institute . The following material is from the CEI webpage titled "Warning Signs": TEN WARNING SIGNS OF A POTENTIALLY UNSAFE GROUP/LEADER. * Absolute authoritarianism without meaningful accountability. * No tolerance for questions or critical inquiry. * No meaningful financial disclosure regarding budget, expenses such as an independently audited financial statement. * Unreasonable fear about the outside world, such as impending catastrophe, evil conspiracies and persecutions. * There is no legitimate reason to leave, former followers are always wrong in leaving, negative or even evil. * Former members often relate the same stories of abuse and reflect a similar pattern of grievances. * There are records, books, news articles, or television programs that document the abuses of the group/leader. * Followers feel they can never be "good enough". * The group/leader is always right. * The group/leader is the exclusive means of knowing "truth" or receiving validation, no other process of discovery is really acceptable or credible. TEN WARNING SIGNS REGARDING PEOPLE INVOLVED IN/WITH A POTENTIALLY UNSAFE GROUP/LEADER. * Extreme obsessiveness regarding the group/leader resulting in the exclusion of almost every practical consideration. * Individual identity, the group, the leader and/or God as distinct and separate categories of existence become increasingly blurred. Instead, in the follower's mind these identities become substantially and increasingly fused--as that person's involvement with the group/leader continues and deepens. * Whenever the group/leader is criticized or questioned it is characterized as "persecution". * Uncharacteristically stilted and seemingly programmed conversation and mannerisms, cloning of the group/leader in personal behavior. * Dependency upon the group/leader for problem solving, solutions, and definitions without meaningful reflective thought. A seeming inability to think independently or analyze situations without group/leader involvement. * Hyperactivity centered on the group/leader agenda, which seems to supercede any personal goals or individual interests. * A dramatic loss of spontaneity and sense of humor. * Increasing isolation from family and old friends unless they demonstrate an interest in the group/leader. * Anything the group/leader does can be justified no matter how

harsh or harmful.

* Former followers are at best-considered negative or worse evil and under bad influences. They can not be trusted and personal contact is

avoided.

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What is a Cult? Descriptions from Cult Education Institute MIKE TYSON ON SOCIAL MEDIA DISCORD * Post author:__Erich Vieth * Post published:__November 20, 2020 * Post category:__Communication

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* Post comments:__0 Comments "SOCIAL MEDIA MADE YOU ALL WAY TOO COMFORTABLE WITH DISRESPECTING PEOPLE AND NOT GETTING PUNCHED IN THE FACE FOR IT."

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Mike Tyson on Social Media Discord MATT TAIBBI’S AMBITIOUS SUBSTACK ADVENTURE * Post author:__Erich Vieth * Post published:__November 20, 2020 * Post category:__Journalism

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* Post comments:__0 Comments I subscribe to Matt Taibbi's new Substack column and I'm a proud supporter of his excellent investigative and opinion articles. Today he announced that his Substack presence will be far more expansive than these columns. I invite you to take a look at what he proposes and to join me in supporting excellent journalism. Here's an excerpt from today's announcement: > When I first switched over to Substack, I had a vague thought of > expanding. Ideas included hiring younger reporters to contribute > investigative features, adding a video or multimedia component, and > finally, using Substack to create a magazine-like structure in which > the longer articles would be buttressed by weekly or monthly > columns, cartoons, Q&A sections, and other (hopefully) funny or > interesting items.

>

> Beginning this week, I’ll be introducing most of these elements > through a new newsletter called TK Weekly (which will probably be > more like a bi-weekly, but call that part of the joke). Subscribers > will receive this regular editor’s note in addition to the essays > and reported pieces already being published on this site.

>

> I’m not at the stage of hiring full-time reporters yet, but I’ve > begun bringing in outside help on a few projects here and there, > with the aim of eventually making this a space for writers, > researchers, cartoonists, etc., to contribute material that might > not have a home in mainstream outlets.

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