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Welcome to the Behavioral Sink

In my book "Mere Animals" I give a LOT of grief to the Japanese and their lack of personal connection to their society and to other people in their society.  But Japan is hardly the only nation suffering from this killer sickness. Just today I found this delightful little video on the Internet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03VmgQV9WuI It turns out that the same type of psychological malaise is affecting billions of people all across the globe, all of whom have one thing in common; to a varying degree their traditional societies have been replaced by a mixed society that includes parts of the American nuclear society.  I call this the "American nuclear society" because it's really based on the psychological, social, and postmodernist beliefs that have all cropped up since 1900. What's becoming clear is that all of these popular or ideological sets of ideas that we've created are both the symptom and cause of the "behavioral sink" in wh

NO Shortcut for Public Consensus

I was shocked to read about the recent terrorist attack on the Muslim gatherings in Christchurch.  This is not acceptable, and the shooter was wrong. I certainly understand the frustration many of us feel towards our fellow citizens as they intentionally go about ignoring the casualties we have sustained in attacks by Islamists and lying about the nature of the Muslim terrorists carrying out the attacks. But there is NO SHORTCUT to public consensus on the subject. Revenge killing makes you a murderer, just like the terrorists and their supporters. Our job is to persuade before it's too late, NOT take the law into our own hands, unless we are responding to a LOCAL event perpetrated on us and our government won't protect us. That's not where we are at this point, and this attack was completely unjustified. Circumstances will make converts without our assistance, and while some believe that this will happen at a point at which it will be too late, I want you

Get it while it's Free!

MY book Mere Animals will be free for three days starting tomorrow. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07M75X2L8/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i2