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DAMIAN THOMPSON ~ COUNTERKNOWLEDGE ~ 2008

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~ C:MPTLLF ~ Counterknowledge: Misinformation Packaged To Look Like Fact

~ I-TIT-ORF-FOOTFOSANBTSBEP ~ Ideas – That In Their – Original Raw Form – Flourished Only On The Fringes Of Society Are Now Being Taken Seriously By Educated People

~ T-T-F-C-IFA-POCT ~ The – Twenty-First Century – Is Facing A – Pandemic Of Credulous Thinking

~ TSDNETE-BEDNPUWAETCBTE ~ The Supernatural Does Not Enter The Equation – Because It Does Not Provide Us With Any Explanations That Can Be Tested Empirically

~ PWSA-M/C/-O-D-ATGE-OFT-DTEOF ~ People Who Share A – Muddled / Careless – Or – Deceitful – Attitude Towards Gathering Evidence – Often Find Themselves – Drawn To Each Other’s Fantasies

~ IS-OFDN-‘P’P-AT-TRI-PTSD ~ In Science – Observable Facts Do Not – “Prove” – A Theory – They Render It – Probable To Some Degree

~ TDBAFAATTIOOP ~ The Difference Between A False And A True Theory Is One Of Probability

~ WDNNA-AE-TKDAFB;ITANFMACESP-TIIF ~ We Do Not Need An – Alternative Explanation – To Knock Down A False Belief; If There Are No Facts Making A Claim Even Slightly Probable – Then It Is False

~ SOTMRTOT-SAS-C-BI-FW ~ Some Of The Most Rigorous Thinkers Of The – Sixteenth And Seventeenth – Centuries – Believed In – Flying Witches

~ YDNNTB-99.9999-%-C-TACIF-TLIA- C ~ You Do Not Need To Be – 99.9999 – Percent – Certain – That A Claim Is False – To Label It As – Counterknowledge

~ A-TA-D-TAS-A-WPDB-TROTM ~ Anecdotes – Treated As – Data – This Approach Suited – And – Was Partly Dictated By – The Requirements Of The Media

~ OOTMW-NTS-SAU-TIT-T-FC-ITEOM-P-S-A-P-H-BRO-MR ~ One Of The Most Worrying – Not To Say – Stupid And Unnecessary – Trends In The – Twenty-First Century – Is The Embrace Of Modern – Pseudo-Science– And – Pseudo-History – By Representatives Of – Major Religions

~ DR ~ Desperate Remedies

~ TCI ~ The Counterknowledge Industry

~PMS ~ Permatanned Motivational Speakers

~ DOC/IPOEM/GIODHOOEL/BAOLO-ATFFUT-CWWA-IAWTOGNHT ~ Disintegration Of Communities / Inescapable Presence Of Electronic Media / Growing Influence Of Distant Happenings On Our Everyday Lives / Bewildering Array Of Lifestyle Options – All These Factors Force Us To – Choose Who We Are – In A Way That Our Grandparents Never Had To

~ PM-MR-SD-A-LT-B-TDLIW-SPATOT ~ PostModernists – May Regard – Scientific Discourse – As – Linguistic Tricks – But – They Don’t Like It When ­– Someone Plays A Trick On Them

~ B-IWBWT-BEOAH ~ But – It Would Be Wrong To – Blame Everything On Aging Hippies

~ OPAET-RT-TN-GAS-THT-CTNI ~ Once People Are Encouraged To – Redefine Themselves – They Need – Goods And Services – To Help Them – Construct Their New Identities

~ TTTI-MOP-HUA-PR-IIAFFY-IAF-A-YC-WHYUWP-WSYV-HL ~ Thanks To The Internet – Millions Of People – Have Unconsciously Absorbed – Postmodern Relativism – If It’s A Fact For You – It’s A Fact – And – Your Computer – Will Hook You Up With People – Who Share Your Views – However Ludicrous

~ WMHTA-T-G/L/PC-G-O-IO-WHTTBO-TM-TEUTD-FFF-IWBTFI-TSOR-BFM ~ We Must Hold To Account – The – Greedy / Lazy / Politically Correct – Guardians – Of – Intellectual Orthodoxy – Who Have Turned Their Backs On – The Methodology – That Enable Us To Distinguish – Fact From Fantasy – It Will Be Their Fault If – The Sleep Of Reason – Brings Forth Monsters

DAVID AARONOVITCH ~ THE TIES THAT BIND ~ VOODOO HISTORIES ~ 2010

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~ HS ~ HISTORICAL PRECEDENT

~CWHTCPTCIE-AITWSLIIAEHOSCCBC ~ Conspiracists Work Hard To Convince People That Conspiracy Is Everywhere – An Individual Theory Will Seem Less Improbable If An Entire History Of Similar Cases Can Be Cited

~ S&S ~ SKEPTICS AND SHEEPLE

~ A-CT-ILTB-PP-ITIUCTLBAATBASPEATP-BC-BITCMYPOA-GHEG-WCSPTOV-B-TPTB ~ A – Conspiracy Theory – Is Likely To Be – Politically Populist – In That It Usually Claims To Lay Bare An Action Taken By A Small Power Elite Against The People – By Contrast – Belief In The Conspiracy Makes You Part Of A – Genuinely Heroic Elite Group – Who Can See Past The Official Version – By – The Powers That Be

~ JAQ ~ JUST ASKING QUESTIONS

~ TTIJA-CDQ-BOADT-SOT-A-TRISLTMU-H/H-M ~ The Theorist Is Just Asking – Certain Disturbing Questions – Because Of A Desire To – Seek Out Truth – And – The Reader Is Supposedly Left To Make Up – His / Her – Mind

~ EW ~ EXPERT WITNESSES

~ CDUTEO-C-A-‘E’-TVTT-AY-ACFO-MCT-I-TEOTSOE ~ Conspiracists Draw Upon The Endorsement Of – Celebrities – And – “Experts” – To Validate Their Theories – And Yet – A Constant Feature Of – Modern Conspiracy Theories – Is – The Exaggeration Of The Status Of Experts

~ IN-TBIOATQOTE-AAOTFITTACTQEOSATSAWSOELSTTA ~ If Necessary – Theorist Become Interestingly Opaque About The Qualifications Of Their Experts – Another Aspect Of This Fudging Is The Tendency Among Conspiracists To Quote Each Other So A To Suggest A Wide Spread Of Expertise Lending Support To The Argument

~ AC ~ ACADEMIC CREDIBILITY

~ TCWHTGT-WE-TVOS-TAHBDA-DBF-ATEOTTIA-DM-O-D-AO-UI-B-LOAA-AT-OTTI-SBQ-F-N-CS-TAITOTB-MAS ~ The Conspiracists Work Hard To Give Their – Written Evidence – The Veneer Of Scholarship – The Approach Has Been Described As – Death By Footnote – Accompanying The Exposition Of The Theory Is A – Dense Mass – Of – Detailed – And Often – Undifferentiated Information – But – Laid Out As An – Academic Text – Often The Theory Is – Supported By Quotations – From – Non-Conspiracist Sources – That Almost Invariably Turn Out To Be – Misleading And Selective

~ CIT ~ CONVENIENT INCONVENIENT TRUTHS

~ CAAW-TAHA-DF-WA-NAI-T-CBAWTTI ~ Conspiracists Are Always Winners – Their Arguments Have A – Determined Flexibility – Whereby Any – New And Inconvenient – Truth – Can Be Accommodated Within The Theory Itself

~ EAO-PITT-MBAT-DD-OWT-IP-DTTAOTS ~ Embarrassing And Obvious – Problems In The Theory – May Be Ascribed To – Deliberate Disinformation – Originating With The – Imagined Plotters – Designed To Throw Activists Off The Scent

~ US ~ UNDER SURVEILLANCE

~ CAITSTTIISTTA-EIT-‘S’-O-C-SE ~ Conspiracists Are Inclined To Suggest That Those Involved In Spreading The Theory Are – Even In The – “Safest” – Of – Countries – Somehow Endangered

DAVID AARONOVITCH ~ VOODOO HISTORIES ~ 2010

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~ FC ~ Fashionable Conspiracism

~ ABDOACTMB:TAO-DA-TS-TIMLTB-AOU ~ A Better Definition Of A Conspiracy Theory Might Be: The Attribution Of – Deliberate Agency – To Something – That Is More Likely To Be – Accidental Or Unintended

~ OR:OTBE-OHIMPTA-I-IIFNONA ~ Occam’s Razor: Other Things Being Equal – One Hypothesis Is More Plausible Than Another – If – It Involves Fewer Numbers Of New Assumptions

~ CIBMCI ~ Conspiracist Ideas Beget More Conspiracist Ideas

~ TUOR ~ The – Untidiness Of Reality

~ HFL ~ History For Losers

~ DBF ~ Death By Footnote

~ BICT-I-HII-IDOVOH-A-TO-TP-A-IWE-LT-DD ~ Belief In Conspiracy Theories – Is – Harmful In Itself – It Distorts Our View Of History – And – Therefore Of – The Present – And – If Widespread Enough – Leads To – Disastrous Decisions

~ TI-HC-SA-W-SAP-A-U ~ The Internet – Has Created – Shadow Armies – Whose – Size And Power – Are – Unknowable

SEBASTIAN BAILEY + OCTAVIUS BLACK ~ GUIDELINES FOR BOOSTING YOUR CREATIVITY ~ MINDGYM ~ 2014

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~ HAO ~ HAVE AN OBJECTIVE

~ ASOP-O-APTS-GITOOCUWSTINOOBAW ~ A Sense Of Purpose – Or – A Problem To Solve – Greatly Increases The Odds Of – Coming Up With Something – That Is Not Only – Original – But Also – Worthwhile

~ EATLTGI ~ ESTABLISH A TIME LIMIT TO GENERATE IDEAS

~ TMPMPP-B-SPOHYPB ~ Too Much Pressure Makes People Panic – But – Some Pressure Often Helps You Perform Better

~ GFQ ~ GO FOR QUANTITY

~ MIB-PB-YNKWYAGT-DSG-A-PB-B-GFV-YFYT-TWR ~ More Is Better – Partly Because – You Never Know When You Are Going To – Discover Something Great – And – Partly Because – By – Going For Volume – You Force Yourself To – Think Without Restrictions

~ D-J/E-YI-AYB ~ DON’T – JUDGE / EVALUATE – YOUR IDEAS – AS YOU BRAINSTORM

~TITHRTST-AIAGIBATMYHTYDKWTML ~ This Is The Hardest Rule To Stick To – All Ideas Are Good Ideas Because At The Moment You Have Them You Don’t Know Where They Might Lead

~ WD-O-R-YI ~ WRITE DOWN – OR – RECORD – YOUR IDEAS

~ IYD-YMEUSAYTTTRT-P-AITWWNMB-T-S-B-F-AAI-L ~ If You Don’t – You Might End Up Spending All Your Time Trying To Remember Them – Plus – An Idea That Won’t Work Now May Be – The – Spring-Board – For An Amazing Idea – Later

~ LHA ~ LOVE HALF ANSWERS

~ Y-MOG-MCF-LAETTYL(BWQSW)-G ~ Your – Moment Of Genius – May Come From – Letting An Earlier Thought That You Liked (But Weren’t Quite Sure Why) – Gestate

ADAM SMITH ~ AN INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS ~ 1776

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~ TTWHT-GVIU-HF-LONVIE-A-OTC-TWHTGVIE-HFLONVIU ~ The Things Which Have The – Greatest Value In Use – Have Frequently – Little Or No Value In Exchange – And– On The Contrary – Those Which Have The Greatest Value In Exchange – Have Frequently Little Or No Value In Use

~ NIMUTW-B-IWPSA-SATCBHIEFI ~ Nothing Is More Useful Than Water – But – It Will Purchase Scarce Anything – Scarce Any Thing Can Be Had In Exchange For It

~ AFO-A-NFOP-S-IEAOTW-THB-TVMOTMOM ~ All For Ourselves – And – Nothing For Other People – Seems – In Every Age Of The World – To Have Been – The Vile Maxim Of The Masters Of Mankind

~ NSCSB-F-A-H-OW-TFGPOTMA-P-A-M ~ No Society Can Surely Be – Flourishing – And – Happy – Of Which – The Far Greater Part Of The Members Are – Poor – And – Miserable

~ I-GE-T-PWLI-TC-AI-TP-RFTSOA-F-MOT-SAI-F-TW-B-E-ATE-TAORITN-TEOTOFAA ~ In – Great Empires – The – People Who Live In – The Capital – And In – The Provinces – Remote From The Scene Of Action – Feel – Many Of Them – Scarce Any Inconveniency – From – The War – But – Enjoy – At Their Ease – The Amusement Of Reading In The Newspapers – The Exploits Of Their Own Fleets And Armies

~ O-M-A-M-M-CMO-TBEO-HW-I-RTP-A-T-LTSOTG-BA-HAA-TSNC-TBEOHP-TASWRT-TPEOTOG-TCOOTOOP ~ Our – Merchants – And – Master-Manufacturers – Complain Much Of – The Bad Effects Of – High Wages – In – Raising The Price – And – Thereby – Lessening The Sale Of Their Goods – Both At – Home And Abroad – They Say Nothing Concerning – The Bad Effects Of High Profits – They Are Silent With Regard To – The Pernicious Effects Of Their Own Gains – They Complain Only Of Those Of Other People

~ TSOES-OT-CTTSOTG-ANAP-IPTTRA ~ The Subjects Of Every State – Ought To – Contribute Toward The Support Of The Government – As Nearly As Possible – In Proportion To Their Respective Abilities

ADAM SMITH ~ THEORY OF MORAL SENTIMENTS ~ 1759

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~ V-I-TGS-A-V-TGD-O-HS ~ Virtue – Is – The Great Support – And – Vice – The Great Disturber – Of – Human Society

~ S-H-CSAT-WAAATRT-HAI-OA ~ Society– However – Cannot Subsist Among Those – Who Are At All Times Ready To – Hurt And Injure – One Another

~ BT-R-IU-TSO-T-GROM-A-OAT-MJ-WWFBMOT;IIA-AAU-TSTTFPO-RAW-CBDFR ~ But Though – Reason – Is Undoubtedly – The Source Of – The – General Rules Of Morality – And – Of All The – Moral Judgments – Which We Form By Means Of Them; It Is Altogether – Absurd And Unintelligible – To Suppose That The First Perceptions Of – Right And Wrong – Can Be Derived From Reason

~ TI-H-AS-WSTTAATDB-VAV-AOWTTIUTA-WP-S-IAER-E-T-GF-T-REPAWV ~ There Is – However – Another System – Which Seems To Take Away Altogether The Distinction Between – Vice And Virtue – And Of Which The Tendency Is Upon That Account– Wholly Pernicious – System – In Almost Every Respect – Erroneous – The – Great Fallacy – To – Represent Every Passion As Wholly Vicious

~ TDT-A-A-ATW-TR-A-TP-I-TG-A-MU-CO-TCOOMS ~ This Disposition To – Admire – And– Almost To Worship – The Rich – And – The Powerful – Is– The Great – And – Most Universal – Cause Of – The Corruption Of Our Moral Sentiments

ROGER BACON ~ NOVUM ORGANUM ~ 1620

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~ T-HU-WIHOAAO-DATET-SAA-WI-A-TTBA-GN-A-WO-I-TBFO-TOS-YTIE-NOD-IOTBT-GAP-P-TAOIFCMRI ~ The – Human Understanding – When It Has Once Adopted An Opinion – Draws All Things Else To – Support And Agree – With It – And – Though There Be A – Greater Number – And – Weight Of – Instances – To Be Found On – The Other Side – Yet These It Either – Neglects Or Despises – In Order That By This – Great And Pernicious – Predetermination– The Authority Of Its Former Conclusions May Remain Inviolate

~ STDOR-IF-T-SF-CE-HBM-O-A-OA:ST-F-A-U-A;ST-WIWCTB;ST-T-POTM;WOA-COI-BA-FSOUK-FNBRTP ~ Since The Days Of Revelation – In Fact – The – Same Four – Corrupting Errors – Have Been Made – Over – And – Over Again: Submission To – Faulty – And – Unworthy – Authority; Submission To – What It Was Customary To Believe; Submission To – The – Prejudices Of The Mob; Worst Of All – Concealment Of Ignorance – By A – False Show Of Unheld Knowledge– For No Better Reason Than Pride

FRANCIS WHEEN ~ IDIOT PROOF ~ 2004

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~ TCFTR-WCT-T-S-S-S ~ Tax Cuts For The Rich – Were Central To – The – Supply-Side-Superstition

~C-H-TSQWTLTGCUAEM ~ Curiously – However – They Seemed Quite Willing To Let The Government Clear Up Any Ensuing Mess

~ TC-PE-W-RF-C-AB-TBMB-TT ~ The Consequences – Predictably Enough – Were – Rampant Fraud – Collapse – A Bill – To Be Met By – The Taxpayer

~ AW-JB-AAT-MFN-O-T-1980-A-EFD-IOFOA ~ As With – Junk Bonds – Almost All The – Macho Financial Neologisms – Of – The 1980s – Are – Euphemisms For Debt – In One Form Or Another

~ OSO-NB ~ Old Snake Oil – New Bottles

~ T-MA-O-N-B-P ~ The – Magic Allure – Of – Numbered-Bullet-Points

~ G-A-SE-WP-AC-D-A-RNS ~ Gurus – Are – Safe Enough – While Peddling – Ancient Cliches – Disguised – As – Revolutionary New Strategies

~ ITEOTWAWKI ~ It’s The End Of The World As We Know It

~ T-NO-HL-FTMTA-O-I-MDP-A-FAI-AEL-HPTBA-FIS ~ The – New Orthodoxy – Has Lamentably – Failed To Match The Achievements – Of – Its – Much Despised Predecessor – And – For All Its – Apparently Elegant Logic – Has Proved To Be A – Fundamentally Irrational System

HAROLD JOHNS ~ THE POWER OF STORY ~ 2022

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~ WAAS-WATSWAT-A-WATSWTO-TCOCWNTCOS ~ We Are All Story – We Are The Stores We Are Told – And – We Are The Stories We Tell Ourselves – To Change Our Circumstances We Need To Change Our Story

~ TWIOBISBS-ETYTIFBS ~ The Wiring In Our Brains Is Shaped By Story – Every Thought You Think Is Framed By Story

~ SCHASCK ~ Stories Can Heal And Stories Can Kill

~ ASAI-ASHP ~ All Stories Are Important – All Stories Have Power

~ EIAPS-IPAOMT-IWDTOSILWTES-WANLT ~ Economics Is A Powerful Story – It Permeates All Of Modern Thought – If We Don’t Tell Our Story In Line With The Economics story – We Are Not Listened To

BRIAN WATSON ~ HEADED INTO THE ABYSS ~ 2019

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~ C-I-NGTSTLO-2100-PNE-20170-NALIAFTYWTE-MOUAT-TTW-AGTBPO-CAD ~ Civilization – Is – Not Going To See The Light Of – 2100 – Perhaps Not Even – 2070 – Not At Least In Any Form That You’d Want To Experience – Most Of Us Alive Today – Throughout The World – Are Going To Be Part Of – Collapse And Dissolution

~ WMCCAFD-TA-AA-POCMTWCITAMOOD-B-WWNDS ~ We Might Change Course Away From Disaster – There Are – After All – Plenty Of Constructive Measures That We Could Implement To Address Most Of Our Difficulties – But – We Will Not Do So

~ ASOMAT-TS-G-A-TAU ~ All Sorts Of Madnesses Abound Today – Throughout Societies – Globally – And – They Afflict Us

~ TW-H-C-A-H-I ~ Today’s World – Hyper-Connected – And – Hyper-Interdependent

~ MVTUTTAS-TT-O-T-ITB-FTOT-B-TANS-I-TA-C/O/I/H/D/S/L/I/E/R/U ~ Many Voices Tell Us That Things Are Simple – That This – Or – That – Is To Blame – For This Or That – But – Things Are Not Simple – Instead – They Are – Complicated / Overlapping / Interrelated / Historical / Dynamic / Simultaneous / Logical / Illogical / Emotional / Resolvable / Unresolvable

~ O-I-A-E-S-A-TCFTC-WBAMFIHTFU ~ Our – Imagination – And – Emotional – Selves – And – The Contest For Their Control – Will Be A Major Factor In How The Future Unfolds

~ OCADEEO-UP-A-BUBP-WA-S-F-D-A-BI ~ Ordinary Citizens Are Dividing Against Each Other – Using Politics – And – Being Used By Politics – We Are – Splintering – Fragmenting – Deteriorating – And – Becoming Impotent

~ FTLT-WDAA-NMCTP-TWNEFP ~ For The Longest Time – We Didn’t Assign Any – Negative Monetary Costs To Pollution – There Was No Explicit Financial Penalty

~ T-GE-I-MAS ~ The – Gig Economy – Is – Mostly A Scam

~ TEIDW-I-WE-ITF-B-NAD-A-TPWO ~ The Economy Is Doing Well – If – We Essentially – Ignore The Future – Both – Near And Distant – And – The Path We’re On

~T-I-AAF-A-NN ~ Technology – Is – Always A Force – And – Never Neutral

~ EJTR-HJ-A-IHE-JTWMNDCB-DBM-WSBVT-AI ~ Even Jobs That Require – Human Judgement – And – Interpreting Human Emotion – Jobs That We Might Not Dream Could Be – Done By Machines – Will Soon Become Vulnerable To – Artificial Intelligence

~ C-C-A-P-W-SNNWTMW-AFTCTMT-RAP ~ Currently – Corporate – And – Political – Winners – See No Need Whatsoever To Mess With – A Formula That Continues To Make Them – Rich And Powerful

~ D-G-W’-II-U-AU-A-AOI-IIUTMUI-I/I/S-S/S/D/A/C-W-AP ~ Data – Gets – “Weaponized” – It Is – Used – Against Us – And – Against Our Interests – It Is Used To Make Us Into – Impulsive / Impressionable / Status-Seeking / Silly / Distracted / Acquisitive / Consuming – Web-Addicted People

~ D-IUT-M/C/D-B-OM-A-OB ~ Data – Is Used To – Modify / Change / Direct – Both – Our Moods – And – Our Behavior

~EANETL-C-KT-T-DS-HB-H/B/HFR/C ~ Enterprises Are Not Eager To Let – Customers – Know That – Their – Digital Systems – Have Been – Hacked / Breached / Held For Ransom / Compromised

~ N-D-C-CTTW-T-H ~ Now – Digital – Computerized – Connected To The Web – Therefore – Hackable

~ MAM-WBR-AC-‘L’-HTDTJ ~ More And More – Will Be Replaced – As Computers – “Learn” – How To Do Their Jobs

~ WAP ~ Without Anyone’s Permission

~ WI-DAU-T-ITEO-TI-A-IRI-E/M/H/W ~ What Is – Different And Unprecedented – Today – Is The Existence Of – The Internet – And – Its Role In – Enlarging / Magnifying / Hardening / Weaponizing

~ WAB-L-T.D-M-E/R-A-MEDBMTSRLOOA ~ We Are Becoming – Less – Tolerant / Discerning – More – Emotional / Reactive – And – More Easily Distracted By Matters That Should Receive Less Of Our Attention

~ PTTEOTI-IWFMDF-P-W-BOA-V-T-FEO-T-STP-A-T-BITN ~ Prior To The Existence Of The Internet – It Was Far More Difficult For – People – With – Bizarre Or Antisocial – Views – To – Find Each Other – To – Sell Their Propaganda – And – To – Be In The News

~ TROTIIC-E/S/TDAAA/TGU/TL/TT-P-W-FALVORAF-A-NTEOS-O-D-O-OVT-TO-TEC-O-T-TIOO-WAACOU-TA ~ The Role Of The Internet In Connecting – Extremists / Sociopaths / The Dangerously Angry And Alienated / The Grossly Uneducated / The Lost / The Traumatized – People – Who – For A Large Variety Of Reasons And Forces – Are – Near The Edge Of Sanity – Or – Desperate – Or – Otherwise Vulnerable To – Their Own – Throbbing Emotional Condition – Or – To – The Influence Of Others – Who Are Also – Consciously Or Unconsciously – Thrashing About

~ HWU-HCT-TOT-A-TEOE ~ Heavy Web Users – Have Come To – Think Of Themselves – As – The Equal Of Experts

~ T-I-O-SMAC-C-VAP-O-YP-MT-A-MIHFTTD-A-HS-A-WC-O-A-BP-T-C/A/C/M-A-E-TLDOO-MS-YP-ABE-TTOTLA-‘B’ ~ The – Interwovenness – Of – Social Media And Commercialization – Changes – Values And Perspectives – Of – Young People – Manipulates Them – And – Makes It Much Harder For Them To Develop – A – Healthily Skeptical – And – Wise Critique – Of – And – Balanced Posture – Toward – Commercialization / Advertising / Consumption / Materialism – And – Even – The Larger Design Of Our – Market System – Young People – Are Being Encouraged – To Think Of Themselves Literally As –”Brands”

~ AJIT-GE-T/I/WB/UU ~ A Job In The – Gig Economy – Temporary / Insecure / Without Benefits / Ultimately Unsustainable

~ OC-F-P-F-A-CAU-A-F-CAE-A-BR ~ Our Capacities – For – Patience – For – Accepting – Complexity And Uncertainty – And – For – Cooperation And Empathy – Are – Being Reduced

~ WL-QT-IOL-WAL-T-CAA-F-DAC-RAI ~ With Less – Quiet Time – In Our Lives – We Are Losing – The – Capacity And Affinity – For – Deep And Critical – Reflection And Introspection

~ WW-I-TP-TB-S-W-F/F/S-I ~ WebWorld – Is – Training People – To Be – Satisfied – With – Fast / Fragmented / Superficial

~ WHE-‘C’-A-ASNOC-AT-AAOC ~ We Have Elevated – “Convenience” – And – A Simple-Minded Notion Of Convenience – At That – Above All Other Considerations

~ ITLTP-F-40Y-STR-STCW-A-F-S/P/A/I-TIWYG ~ If You Lie To People – For – 40 Years – Screw Them Royally – Steal The Country’s Wealth – And – Feed – Suspicion / Paranoia / Anxiety / Ignorance – This Is What You Get

~ MO-HWHTO-T-E/T/D-R-TAT-MC-BTSOOW ~ Media Outlets – Have Worked Hard To Obscure – The – Economic / Technological / Deregulatory – Realities – That Are The – Main Culprits – Behind The Struggles Of Ordinary Workers

~ OI-OC-O-APS-CF-SWEO-WWBATA-T-M-IAT-P-WH ~ Only If – Ordinary Citizens – Of – All Political Stripes – Can Find – Solidarity With Each Other – Will We Be Able To Address – The – Most – Important And Threatening – Problems – We Have

~ WLBN-A-WS-IAC-WCCD ~ We Live By Narratives – And – We Seek – Integration And Coherence – We Can Connect Dots

~ WW-SU-AF-CAD-F-II-HW-A-S-B-T-ASS-T-CATAOS ~ WebWorld – Seduces Us – Away From – Confusing And Difficult – Fare – It Is – Hard Work – And – Sometimes – Boring – To – Adequately Study Something – To – Consider All The Aspects Of Something

~ T-EQOE-AA-IT-I ~ The – Essential Quality Of Ecosystems – Above All – Is Their – Interconnectedness

~ RS-A-S-CDS-MM-HOR ~ Rising Seas – And – Salt-Contaminated Drinking Supplies – Massive Migrations – Hordes Of Refugees

~ F-OE-TS-A-OE-ES-HNR-TT-MPR-OT-P/B/C-W ~ Fundamentally – Our Entire – Technological System – And – Our Entire – Economic System – Have No Relationship – To The – Most Primary Realities – Of The – Physical / Biological / Chemical – World

~ TF-WHMR-F-PTB-EM-D/F/E-~ The Future – Will Hold Many Reasons – For – People To Become – Even More – Depressed / Fearful / Emotional

~ IA-FAD-W-FAE-WCTDTRTP-E-WBT-P-S-B ~ In A – Frightening And Deteriorating World – Fear And Emotions – Will Come To Dominate The Responses That People – Everywhere – Will Bring To – Planetary-Scale-Breakdowns

~ WIMC-I-TTIOATPOTP-WQONRWU-HM-PAW-WG-A-TDTWWU-I-BAC-OT-B ~ What Is Most Critical – Is – The Total Impact Of All The People On The Planet – What Quantity Of Natural Resources We Use – How Much – Pollution And Waste– We Generate – And – The Degree To Which We Upset – Important – Balances And Cycles – Of The – Biosphere

~ V-NB-I-B-B-G/A/D ~ Victimized – Not By – Immigrants – But – By – Globalization / Automation / Deregulation

~ HNOP-W-B-FTF-SC-A-ED ~ Huge Numbers Of People – Will – Be – Forced To Flee – Societal Collapse – And – Ecological Devastation

~ OESNTBMS ~ Our Economic System Needs To Be Made Sustainable

~ TI-A-M-NOWTGF-A-NOWTH ~ This Is – A – Message – No One Wants To Give – And – No One Wants To Hear