How To Read USA Today
More from the just-deceased Neil Smith — a classic dissection of how to properly read and understand the USA Today newspaper: Each edition of USA Today has four seperate sections aimed at the broadest...
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A Serious Challenge to the Milgram and Stanford Prison Experiments
“Authority allows two roles: the torturer and the tortured” – V for Vendetta, Alan Moore. Picture: PaulR (CC) A serious challenge to theories regarding human behaviour based upon the ground breaking...
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The Child and Its Enemies
By Emma Goldman, via the Anarchist Library: Is the child to be considered as an individuality, or as an object to be moulded according to the whims and fancies of those about it? This seems to me to be...
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These Boots Were Made For More Than Walkin’– The Sole of the Rebel
“Driving fast, drinking cheap beer and smashing windows isn’t rebellion. The best form of rebellion is individualism. Thinking for yourself.” Martin Roach, Dr Martens History We live within a system...
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Nine Out Of Ten Men Say They Fake An Interest In Sports
So does anyone actually like professional sports? Fascinating ritual sociology from the UK’s Daily Mail: Nine out of ten men lie about liking sports to impress friends or to get ahead at work, it was...
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Sheeple: Why You Should Feel Sorry For Them
Pic: Luxamart (CC) Brandon Smith writes at Alt-Market.com: To live a life of endless acceptance is to live a life of meaningless obscurity. When one arrives at his deathbed, does he want to reflect on...
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How Belief In Hell Directly Benefits The Elite
If there’s ever been any doubt in your mind that organized religion benefits the ruling class then a recent paper published by PLOS ONE, an open-access, peer reviewed online publication, should quash...
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The Kids Are Alright, It’s The School ‘Reformers’ Who Are Actively Hostile to...
PIC: Russavia (CC) Peter Greene writes: I was in a CCSS training, and the trainer stopped to make an observation about how Kids These Days lack discipline and order. She even illustrated it with a...
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Thoughts on James Randi and His Flat Earth Conference for Superstitious Dorks
James Randi I have a confession to make. Before I started writing for Disinfo about a year and a half ago, I wasn’t really familiar with James Randi. I’d heard his name come up a few times on the...
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3 Fundamentally Incorrect Assumptions About Consciousness that Define Modern...
Being a mystic in the supposedly modern era is odd, to say the least. Being a spirit medium is even stranger, especially when you have a difficult time accepting that you’re a spirit medium in the...
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Six Things The New ‘Prisoner’ Changed For The Worse
I managed to catch the first two hours of the Prisoner remake on AMC and am hoping the next four (it's a six-hour mini-series) really picks up and does something remarkable. Curious to know what all...
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Want to see how people will change to fit in? In 1962, groundbreaking social psychologist Solomon Asch teamed up with the television show Candid Camera to demonstrate how quickly a basic social norm...
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