Action-as-Propaganda
Action-as-propaganda can reinforce an oddly reassuring feeling of certainty, helping to bend reality into line with a distorted and propagandistic image of the world. It also distorts our perceptions of this reality so that the gap between public perception and official propaganda is further diminished.
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Ponerology: The Science of Evil: Psychopathic Bosses Get Promoted
In a Reuters article Bad bosses get promoted, not punished?: we learn that "In the study to be presented at a conference on management this weekend, almost two-thirds of the 240 participants in an online survey said the local workplace tyrant was either never censured or was promoted for domineering ways."
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The Science of Evil: Good Times, Bad Times 1: The Hysteroidal Cycle
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Opinion: Surveillance doesn’t prevent criminal activity | watched, behave, tend : Clovis News Journal
People who are closely watched by authorities tend to avoid anything that might create attention, even if they are doing nothing wrong. They tend to watch what they say. It’s quite nervewracking, actually, to be watched by someone with the authority to arrest or roust you.
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Chellis Glendinning: Every Move You Make
“Inverted totalitarianism,” as he calls it in his recent Democracy Incorporated, “lies in wielding total power without appearing to, without establishing concentration camps, or enforcing ideological uniformity, or forcibly suppressing dissident elements so long as they remain ineffectual.” To Wolin, such a form of political power makes the United States “the showcase of how democracy can be managed without appearing to be suppressed.”
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Evolution, punctuational crises and the threat to civilization
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Medical Consequences of a Nuclear Attack on Iran
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