The Psychopaths who Should Have Crushed my Spirit

…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 […]

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, […]

Granfalloons and Cognotypes

Image by Jorgelrma […]

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 […]

Mind Categories as an Ancient Equilibrium Distribution

Babiak and Hare (2006) conducted psychology experiments in which the antics of what they called “hucksters” were shown to randomly-selected audiences, after which each audience member was interviewed about their impressions of the huckster. The audience members fell into approximately equal thirds in their responses, numbered herein according to the order of their mention in […]

Corporate Democracy

Extend the democratic process into the workplace. […]

Bubbles of Tyranny

Bubbles of Tyranny supplant any democracy lacking sufficient strength or reach. […]

Ubiquitous Democracy

How does Statement A differ in principle from Statement B? […]

No Democracy

Your experience of democracy is largely controlled by company policy. […]