Author: Kirk D. Sinclair
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Fox News Perceptions and Clout
I came across a Facebook comment that ironically declared Fox News had 35% more viewership than CNN because they report the truth. Fox News indeed draws the most viewers (30%) of any single corporate mainstream media. This gives the only mainstream media created for a political purpose the single greatest influence on perceptions and clout
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Civilized War Perceptions
The information on foreign war casualties and perspectives I provided contrasts the influence of personal experience versus news media. The tragedy of war understandably makes us skeptical about its necessity. However, media punditry can change civilized war perceptions can to overcome this skepticism. At the time of World War I people got their news from
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Civilized War Casualties
Several trends jump out to me from the data on foreign war casualties and perception I collected. Globalists, advanced countries and NeoEnlightenment scholars could and have used such data as good news. After World War II the civilized casualties from foreign wars have decreased. Having faith in civilized progress based on decreasing war casualties needs
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Foreign Wars Casualties and Perceptions
This response to the current bombing of Iran interrupts the miniseries on democracy with a perspective on foreign wars. My faith in being human over being civilized derives from research I started in 2005 in response to threats of war with Iran. Because I believe in humanity I believe that when properly informed citizens can
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The Political Continuum
The first posts formed a miniseries about wisdom. This introduces a new miniseries on the concept of democracy. We begin with a political continuum based on Enlightenment conceptions of the social contract. I covered these in my election year journal, Pandering and Punditry, Entries #9-10. The ruling principle of authoritarian government can be summarized as
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Personal Wisdom
Personal Wisdom is the fifth and last entry in the miniseries. Most of this wisdom miniseries focused on collective wisdom. We can achieve collective wisdom by removing barriers such as systemic bias and misinformation. Elections or referendums then aggregate the knowledge of an electorate. Yet we can enhance our collective wisdom further by becoming wiser
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Systemic Party Bias
This is the fourth entry for a miniseries about wisdom. I am an unaffiliated citizen. Parents belonging to different parties contributed to my independence, as did the tendency of the parties to change principles. During my lifetime the parties switched over “shock and awe” tactics. They switched over choice and abortion. They switched over state
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Collective Wisdom Conditions
This is the third entry in a miniseries about collective wisdom. In The Wisdom of Crowds, James Surowiecki detailed the four conditions for collecting wisdom from a population. People must think independently of each other, no groupthink. Their thinking must be decentralized, not influenced by a centralized authority. Such conditions allow for collecting a diversity
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Knowledge, Experience and Wisdom
This is the second entry for a miniseries about wisdom. “Inconceivable!” Vizzini declares this in The Princess Bride, after witnessing events repeatedly conceived and implemented. Inigo Montoya then gives the classic response: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” I think the same thing whenever I
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The Journey Begins!
Only thirteen months since this I created this website and now we can roll! Only fitting that the journey begins with a miniseries about wisdom. First up: a personal anecdote about my pursuit of wisdom. I lingered at a trail junction with a wide open view to the east, far down slope from the majestic
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