here be dragons

From: [Wall Street Journal reporter] Farnaz Fassihi ( Read more... )

Dead Iraqis Would Have Loved Democracy

interesting...

"we were classically conditioning ourselves by turning the light off every time we played music, and then after about a million times, seeing if our pupils still adjusted when we played the music without the lights...and they did....it was cool in the end, but it was a long boring process"

according to the research....

low socio-economic families value neatness and obediance most (external values)

high socio-economic families value self control and delay of gratification most (internal values)

neat freaks and submissive whores, serves them right....

the narcissist dislikes progress because they are fixated on their present form... that is why, evolutionarily, it's always a good thing to be self loathing so long as imperfection exists...

This tendency to move toward the average away from extremes was called "regression" by Sir Francis Galton in a study of the average heights of sons of very tall and very short parents. (The study was published in 1885 and was called "Regression Toward Mediocrity in Hereditary Stature.") He found that sons of very tall or very short parents tend to ( Read more... )

carl jung, aldous huxley, and stanley kubrick have the same birthday - July 26

the point of existence is evolution

most evolution is only perceivable from a long term multigenerational perspective

i am interested in accelerating intergenerational evolution...

i am reading 'good to great' by jim collins... highly recommended... very short book ( Read more... )