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- 11:32, 20 September 2019 RC's Iron Laws (hist) [619 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "In 2010, a blog called Colorado Libertarian posted these Iron Laws. They are credited to one RC Dean, a commenter at reason.com. Colorado Libertarian suggests the original I...")
- 13:12, 26 May 2017 Lexicon (hist) [1,505 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "<center><h3>The Most Violent Lexicon</h3></center> Abdication of Conscience <br/> Amateur <br/> American (Social Identity) <br/> Appeal to the Weaker Princi...")
- 12:14, 16 May 2017 Liberty (hist) [66 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "# The happy condition of having one's will in accord with the law.")
- 11:13, 16 May 2017 Weaning (hist) [104 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "# The moment when a student proceeds to self-teach. # The overriding, urgent goal of all real education.")
- 18:55, 15 May 2017 Assume for Contradiction (hist) [192 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A logician's term of art meaning "hold my beer, I intend to demolish this assumption". # The most beautiful three words in the English language.")
- 15:48, 25 March 2017 The Most Violent Element (hist) [1,176 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "#In the old days, there was a bumper sticker that read THE MOST VIOLENT ELEMENT IN SOCIETY IS IGNORANCE.<br />Ignorance is a human universal. So the most violent element in s...")
- 13:56, 25 March 2017 Abdication of Conscience (hist) [221 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "# The most implacably cruel state of mind. # The most tempting of privileges, to certain kinds of people. # The most-demanded proof of membership in the Elite. Abdication of...")
- 13:29, 4 March 2017 Integrity (hist) [958 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Integrity is a happy condition of mind where one's values, beliefs, and experiences are consonant (not dissonant). Perfect integrity is not possible for humans, but it is pos...")
- 20:50, 28 February 2017 Appeal to the Weaker Principle (hist) [191 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "# A nebulous concept, something like a subset of the Straw Man yet somehow more common than the Straw Man. The appeal to the weaker principle is a privilege granted based on...")
- 19:52, 28 February 2017 Fascism (hist) [1,621 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "# Any popular political movement that begins with street violence. # A system where government and business collude at the highest levels, essentially rendering business into...")
- 21:15, 17 February 2017 Economic Fallacy (hist) [623 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The unquestioned assumption, in broad terms, that: #Human happiness is congruent with money, or #The more money you have, the happier you are, or #People get sad and desponden...")
- 16:44, 8 February 2017 Ignorance (hist) [255 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Anthropologists may be glassy-eyed maniacs, but at least they've discovered the main thing: humans are ignorant. All humans. All. Including you. Including you, most defini...")
- 16:36, 8 February 2017 Incontinence (hist) [681 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Humans in both history and prehistory have had to struggle for existence. This struggle, the Human Struggle, continues to this day. We are lucky and fortunate, as humans, to...")
- 15:03, 8 February 2017 Biological Foundation of Culture (hist) [399 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with " Elites assume there is no limit to the changes they can inflict on human nature. In this, they are correct. There are no limits to the overall change which is possible....")
- 14:37, 3 February 2017 Bigotry (hist) [1,189 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Bigotry, in essence, is the judgement of the individual on the basis of circumstances outside that individual's control. My own personal test for bigotry goes as follows: wou...")
- 14:02, 3 February 2017 Cognitive Castration (hist) [2,712 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ""Cognitive Castration" names both the process and the effect of much of school. The Process: The subject is invited to offer personal opinions in a free intellectual environ...")
- 16:06, 12 June 2016 Democrat (Social Identity) (hist) [1,769 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "That social identity in American politics which is opposed American (Social Identity) . Democrats don't necessarily agree on what to value. What they all have in common...")
- 15:54, 12 June 2016 American (Social Identity) (hist) [1,066 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the two social identities of consequence in American electoral politics. The opposing social identity is most conveniently labelled Democrat (Social Identity) ....")
- 16:27, 31 May 2016 Amateur (hist) [533 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "From the Latin "amator", meaning "lover". An amateur is someone who does his work for the love of it, not for recompense. Often used as a derogative term by people who are m...")
- 09:45, 31 May 2016 Iron Law of Certainty (hist) [331 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Truth is elusive. To remain anywhere near it requires constant pursuit. One who is certain of his opinions does not pursue truth; he is self-satisfied. The more certain you...")
- 13:36, 30 May 2016 Values (hist) [4,072 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Most people have them: moral propositions which they value. Values do not stand by themselves or originate in themselves. They are valued because they produce emotional resp...")
- 11:01, 30 May 2016 Sociology (hist) [1,724 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Sociology is a soft science with a conflict of interest built in at the foundation. Sociologists tend to bristle when you say their science is a soft one. It's true, they do...")
- 10:30, 30 May 2016 Schooling vs. Education (hist) [823 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the most pervasive fallacies in American culture is the idea that schooling equals education. Social scientists and news media routinely conflate the two. What school...")
- 10:13, 30 May 2016 Stupidity (hist) [1,011 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Stupidity is the inability or disinclination to learn. A stupid person is unable to change behavior, including internal "behaviors" such as thought, belief, and emotional res...")
- 12:21, 29 May 2016 The Law of the Cathedral and the Revolution (hist) [701 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Our schools are a cathedral of sorts, where our dominant social and cultural assumptions originate. Our mainstream media and our political establishment tend very strongly to...")
- 18:48, 28 May 2016 Learning (hist) [614 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Learning is any change in behavior which results from an outside stimulus. For this to be a general definition, "behavior" must be generalized to include not only outward beh...")
- 18:38, 28 May 2016 BlackLivesMatter (hist) [605 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "A highly successful social movement to empower the criminal black underclass and reduce the protection afforded by police in black communities. The predictable result has bee...")
- 18:12, 28 May 2016 Eric Garner (hist) [2,658 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Eric Garner was a black man who suffered mortal trauma at the hands of New York City police. He seems to have been a decent, respectable person, with an entrepreneurial bent....")
- 17:39, 28 May 2016 Rule of Racial Homicide (hist) [3,652 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "The Rule of Racial Homicide holds that homicidal violence mostly occurs within racial groups, not between them. Note that it is a Rule, not a Law. There are historical excep...")
- 13:30, 28 May 2016 Magic Words (hist) [457 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Like "abracadabra" and "hocus-pocus", magic words have little or no intrinsic meaning. They are used to send social signals or trigger emotional responses. EXAMPLES: "Racis...")
- 12:03, 28 May 2016 Argument From Social Identity (hist) [1,362 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Let's say you want to argue with someone over the merits of a proposition. But it turns out, you can't get your interlocutor to consider the merits of the proposition. Inste...")
- 06:51, 25 May 2016 Education (hist) [469 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with ""Educate" literally means "to lead out". For something to be education, it should increase the student's capability for experience and behavior. Much of schooling is the opp...")
- 09:12, 23 May 2016 Cognitive Dissonance (hist) [1,675 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Cognitive Dissonance is an uncomfortable sensation, akin to shame. It arises when one discovers an incongruity among belief, experience, and / or values.")
- 09:02, 23 May 2016 Eyes Glaze Over (EGO) (hist) [1,127 bytes] Admin (Talk | contribs) (Created page with "Everyone has had the experience of reading while distracted, preoccupied or fatigued. The eyes continue to scan the page, the words flow along, but they convey no meaning to...")
- 11:11, 14 May 2016 Main Page (hist) [31 bytes] MediaWiki default (Talk)
