Inter-human loyalty in real life versus the extravagant bonds of movies, television, and novels
Image: Kathy Hutchins / Shutterstock.com Loyalty is one of those words that feels simple until you try to pin it down. In everyday speech it...
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How all kinds of minds have been sabotaged to wrongly gather and process information
1) “Average IQ” isn’t the problem—human cognition is the problem An IQ score near the population average means you’re… normal. It doesn’t mean you’re “bad...
The empty “Jewish World Conspiracy” myth: The fictional group that had no tricks
Classic conspiracy lore tells a story of a small group of jews and a system of jewish helpers which managed to acquire decisive power within...
The three-headed cartel: Fixing the prices for global security
Why a secret superpower condominium could be “rational” in the age of WMD—and what it would buy compared to confrontation or World War We are...
Viral copy&paste nonsense vs. real investigative reporting
On the unoriginality economy of Alex Jones, Candace Owens, and Tucker Carlson—and what Julie K. Brown’s Epstein reporting shows by contrast It was not Alex...
Cartel de los Soles: What we can responsibly say about a “state-embedded” trafficking network in Venezuela
The phrase Cartel de los Soles (Cartel of the Suns) sits in an awkward category: it is widely used, politically explosive, and partly “real” in...
Friends & Enemies: C*caine commie captured
Venezuela’s president was captured by a US special operation. Image: Kremlin.ru...
Theoretical “pie in the sky” socialism vs. the real socialist regime
The Council in the Sky and the State on the Ground 1) Two different things called “socialism” People argue past each other because the word...
The difference between common egotism and pathological narcissism
How often these days do you hear statements like “my ex was a narcissist” or “ALL my exes were narcissists” or “my boss was gaslighting...
Aristocratic-Dynastic intelligence vs. bureaucratic intelligence
Image: Lorna Roberts / Shutterstock.com 1) The problem that historians (and many intelligence historians) keep stepping around Most readers can understand that rulers in every...