that social dynamics tend in the direction of tyranny wherever democracy is absent, weak or falls short in its reach.
The battle for democracy is for all or nothing — a zero sum game with only one winner: democracy or tyranny. In physical terms, we could think of democracy as the stable state of a society and tyranny as its ground state. They are not the same in this case. Maintaining stability requires constant effort but yields prosperity in return, whereas tyranny also requires constant effort to maintain because it benefits only those in control and angers everyone else.
Documentary fimmakers Misha Votruba and Vaclav Dejcmar present a seminal movie on how psychopaths operate in today’s world. Featuring interviews with world-renowned psychopathologists Robert Hare and Paul Babiak, it’s a must see for anyone who thinks a college education taught you everything you need to know about working in Corporate America.
lesson learned (n): A law that prevents the recurrence of past social upsets. Most laws are passed in response to particular situations. Root cause analysis exposes the underlying dynamics that lead to particular situations. Based on these underlying dynamics, we can design fixes that prevent particular situations from arising. The Constitution of the United States…
YouTuber @JanetWeiss5166 asked me on 15 October 2025 “Can you help the following facts go viral?” I added bullet points and rendered in italics the part I edited and my addendum. In March 2024 the Supreme Court ruled against the state of Colorado seeking to keep insurrectionist Trump’s name off the state ballot, citing the…
…but didn’t. Oops! I made it to retirement as but the shale and husk of the person I should have become but, as long planned, will now begin to chronicle every last one of the psychopaths and malignant narcissists who chose to tread on me during my long and turbulent career in technology, be it…
Comment on Sarah Paine geopolitics lecture posted on or before 2026-07-08 @ 18:30: Whoever tries to conquer the Eurasian continent needs a very large population of cooperating peoples to occupy, police, administer and control it. Germany is almost entirely landlocked, has far too few people and even after 81 years since the last time they…
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The Seven Samurai in Corporate America
In times of growth, peril or uncertainty, those who can, do and those who benefit shower them with accolades. In times of decline, retrenchment or stagnation, those who can’t, bully and trample underfoot those who can while those who benefit turn a blind eye. Democracy was invented to eliminate this harmonic from the cycles of history. Its implementation must be accordingly pervasive, strong and unrelenting in order to effectively manifest its intended results.
The Seven Samurai in Corporate America
In times of growth, peril or uncertainty, those who can, do and those who benefit shower them with accolades. In times of decline, retrenchment or stagnation, those who can’t, bully and trample underfoot those who can while those who benefit turn a blind eye. Democracy was invented to eliminate this harmonic from the cycles of history. Its implementation must be accordingly pervasive, strong and unrelenting in order to effectively manifest its intended results.