Robert Greene: Strategy, Power, and Seduction
August 29, 2012
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As one of the most powerful liars in the world, Matt Drudge takes perverse pleasure in twisting facts to fit his right-wing denialist agenda. He’s got this down to a fine art, cherry-picking and sometimes re-writing actual headlines.
My least-favorite trope, which Stern plows like a familiar rut, is the “literal-mythological” dichotomy. That believers and atheists who take myths literally are both equally guilty of strawmanning.
Opposition to gay marriage is what gave George W. Bush a second term. And the second Bush term is what plunged us into the “Great Recession.”
Financial deregulation began under the Reagan administration and continued with Bill Clinton’s repeal of Glass-Steagall, and the destruction of even more laws under George W. Bush.
Bigots respond to being called out in two ways. They double down on the bigotry, and they personally attack the messenger.
Civilized ethics can be boiled down to two broad questions: Do you think in terms of short-term or long-term self-interest How large is your “in-group,” or circle of concern?
Imagine what life would be like today, if we’d defeated militarism, unsustainable capitalism, and dictatorship in the 20th century?
With Eternal Life Insurance, no one seems to worry about the “company” delivering on its promise. Even the mafia was never this slick.
I recently heard a new term I hadn’t heard before: Glurge. But I’ve certainly experienced it. Now you can, too…
“Why are people such assholes?” Someone asked me the other day. I replied, “Because that’s what we do.” (And that’s why we need governance.)
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