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The Psychopaths who Should Have Crushed my Spirit

They Didn’t. I made it to retirement as but the shale and husk of the person I should have become and, 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 […]

Chronology of a Coup

U.S. Army trucks on campus following the Ole Miss riot of 1962, when President John F. Kennedy invoked the act.

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 […]

Proposed Constitutional Amendments

It Meets Sanjuro: The first and last scene of a very short movie

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, […]

Misha Votruba and Vaclav Dejcmar on Psychopathy

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.

On Nature (Heraclitus)

One of the Herculaneum scrolls scientists are hoping to read with x-ray technology.

Says Kahn: “Down to the time of Plutarch and Clement, if not later, the little book of Heraclitus was available in its original form to any reader who chose to seek it out.”

Diogenes says: “the book acquired such fame that […]

Granfalloons and Cognotypes

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Anomalies and their Followers as Drivers of Episodic Social Upsets

While episodic social upsets driven by psychopaths and their followers are both painfully obvious and abundant to the point of distraction in the historical record, it is enlightening to place these upsets into the context of Babiak & Hare‘s psychology experiments. In these experiments, as treated further in another post, the minds in a random […]

The Dorian Succession

Some clarification was needed in endnote 63 of the 3rd Edition of The Way of Ages in which geographical influences on cultural stability and longevity are discussed. While the Dorian culture both supplanted and enslaved the Mycenaean culture in the Peloponnese, the Mycenaeans were succeeded by three main cultures: The Dorian culture represented by the […]

Nexus 3019

Personally, I’m an AI skeptic. Humans by nature tend to personify things. Show them a wind-up toy and their first impression is “Look! A little person!”. The more human a robot looks, the more human we assume it to be, regardless of its internal sophistication or lack thereof. The appearance itself sets our imagination in […]

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