The Social Pathologist

The Diseases of Modern Life as seen through the Secular Confessional

Friday, November 04, 2011

Intuition.

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Much conservative thought, particularly religious, is of the opinion that the great turning point in the West, the turning point which has l...
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Thursday, October 20, 2011

Cognitive Psychology and Democracy.

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I've spent the last week surveying the field  of cognitive psychology.  And whilst I had very little faith in Democracy prior, my readin...
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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Potpourri

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A few things people may be interested in. Tasks that do and don't correlate with IQ. And one that probably didn't get much publi...
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Monday, October 10, 2011

Intelligence is not Rationality.

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Unlike most of the HBD crowd, I don't hold IQ in nearly the esteem that they do. Medicine attracts a lot of highly gifted people, people...
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Stenosophic Liberalism.

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In my previous post, commentator KJJ made the following comment: Have you considered Jonathan Haidt's examination of the moral reasonin...
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Friday, October 07, 2011

Some thoughts on Stenosophism.

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For those who are interested, I just thought that I would try to clarify by what I mean by Stenosophism. Stenosophism needs to be thought...
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Sunday, October 02, 2011

Vox Homer

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Thought is also always rooted in values and motivations. We ordinarily think not for the sake of thinking but to achieve certain goals base...
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Monday, September 26, 2011

Stenosophism: Short term smart, long term stupid.

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One of the findings in Dorner's book is that human beings seem to have a hard time recognising temporal relationships. Causal relationsh...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Logic of Failure.

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Let me first begin by saying that this is a very good book, not for its writing style but for the scientific data it presents with regard to...
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Monday, September 12, 2011

Unintended Economic Consequences.

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From the book Before the Deluge: A portrait of Berlin in the 1920's. The survivors smile now at the madness of 1923[ Ed: Wiemar Hyperi...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: Epilogue.

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Whittaker Chambers died in 1961, never completing his epilogue to Witness. After his death, his wife and his friend Duncan Norton-Taylor, ...
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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: The Cancer Eating the West.

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(Some explanatory notes. Chambers considered Socialism, Leftism of any kind and Communism to be essentially the same ideologies, differing...
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Friday, August 26, 2011

Whittaker Chambers: The failure of Conservatism.

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( Germany's children are starving, 1924. Kathe Kollwitz) In the years when Communism was advancing successfully against the West there...
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011

Whittaker Chambers. Conservatism in the Age of Machines.

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September 1954 Dear Willi: History tells me that the rock-core of the Conservative Position, or any fragment of it, can be held realist...
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