Tag: might makes right

  • 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 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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  • 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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