M. Bishop

Very good topic

Revisado: 10-06-23

Evolutionary psychology should be obviously real but, is hated and deny by extreme right and left for the same reasons. For that reason alone makes being conversant in the subject.
The narrator is annoying.

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Pleasantly surprised.

Revisado: 02-16-20

Scott Adams is controversial. I had followed him on Twitter back when Twitter was cool and didn't like him much but, Twitter is designed to promote hate and stupidity.
After listening to his fully explained positions I can see that his critics are propagandist or repeating propaganda.
I have zero respect for Trump or people who bought his garbage which left me with the general opinion that Trump is intellectually limited in the extreme but, having listen to this explanation of how persuasion works and how Trump uses it, I now see that yes, it is likely Trump is capable of guile and strategic thinking. I also can see that some people would view his actions as success when compared to the incompetence and moral hypocrisy of the left.
This audio book is worth a listen as it is not too long and is a good overview of persuasion and a depressing but, funny history of Adam's Twitter wars and the 2016 campaign.

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It's unique but, seems to be missing something.

Revisado: 02-03-20

This book isn't much about the actual writings but, rather a history of those writings. I was hoping more for a primer on propaganda and how it works.
3 stars because you will learn a branch history little covered and incredibly important.

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Scott Adams isn't worth the time

Revisado: 02-03-20

After reconsideration I believe Scott Adams is a huckster and your studies into skepticism would be better spent elsewhere.

Scott Adams makes a very good argument as to why you should discount what climate scientist and activists are claiming with regard to their doom saying, in that predictions are almost always wrong and when they are right you are not going to be tell if it was a coincidence or genius. However he is missing one thing in his line of reasoning with regard to the climate change counter argument. The “skeptics” are largely detectable frauds that you can apply some intellectual tools and basic research to without being and subject matter expert to figure out if they are fatuous dullards or propagandist (search for “Baloney Detection Kit” to begin with). Also if peer reviewed science in wrong 90% of time it is still approximately 10% more accurate than making stuff up. Secondly his caparison of stock market models and climate model is off base. Adams is literal comparing con-artist and crackpots to credentialed scientist. The climate models are inaccurate in that they have only a 95% confidence level and scientist are arguing over the remaining 5%, while the most stock market modelers don’t what a confidence level is. Also your confidence can be place in the consilience of multiple disciplines not a silo’ed tree ring counter or a weather satellite.

It would be a good exercise for anybody to find a controversial topic and and do a critical analysis to see if can derive something close to the truth of it. At any rate, somethings are harder to work through and are a time sink that neither put money in your pocket or get your belly warm.

One bit would be helpful for young people, follow Adams pyramid of priorities and build your actual life and don’t get sucked into global or national issues that only serve tribal virtue signaling. It’s an easy read.

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Recommended

Revisado: 01-24-20

This trilogy is long but, the details tell you so much more than the superficial documentaries or pop histories.
Evans doesn’t waste your time with moralizing or foreshadowing. He just lays it out for you to work out for yourself. This is where the depth pays off. You will learn why National Socialism turned Germany into an asylum and the war was lost before it ever began.
I can say I never quite “got it” until this history gave me, finally, enough information to put the puzzle together.

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Very good but one point:

Revisado: 10-14-19

A very good history and mostly on target analysis with one exception to offer.
In the last chapter's analysis the author states the obvious of problem applying today's tribal morals and rationalizations to yesterdays history and then he does just that in his recounting of recent witch hunts where he considers accusations of antisemitism with regard to Israel criticism to be a witch hunt and ignores the #metoo and campus rape panic. If you are verse in campus politics this is very inside the bubble academic thinking but, by the same token if he were to address such issues it would likely be the end of his career.
Otherwise the course is very good and being knowledgable about witch hunting is key to upstanding current events and culture as it the a constant feature of human nature.

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A better read than the rest

Revisado: 09-24-19

I have found the moralizing of historians when discussing NAZIism to be tedious. This author tells the story without the moralizing and it makes the story of the descent into catastrophe all the more potent when it reveals itself and you work it out for yourself. It almost reads like a novel with a minimal of foreshadowing.
Also this author isn’t obsessed with Hitler but, lays out a powerful case for German culture being the catalyst which Hitler reined in to his own final solution.

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Not a history.

Revisado: 07-30-19

This book is polemic against the winners of the civilization game. It’s greatest weakness is RDO’s claim of moral superiority. The book begins with the myth of the noble savage and then rubbages everything European while claiming Euro-America identity is itself mythology. True enough but, morality itself is the myth of self-superiority. The myth of losers being exploited, as is the myth that winners are inherently superior and deserving.
That said the history presented is rather under done and you would be serve reading actual history’s of the Trail of Tears and Wounded Knee etc. Also the efficacy of total war as practiced by the US is widely misunderstood and confused with the warfare of mad dictators.
RDO, yes the US is an evil empire but, is the least evil empire. Stone Age natives never would have stood a chance against any power that found it and being found the value they had on offer was enslavement or death. Through history people have sold their own children into slavery and cannibalized them to eat. There is no moral bottom for us. It could have been much worse.
Indigenous people were just a obstacle to a much greater future. At this time they need to do little more than abandon the past, and join the US identity. There is no going back except in the fantasizes present in this self aggrandizing propaganda.

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Not useful.

Revisado: 07-24-19

I thought this course too general to have any actionable information.
The information provided seemed to me to be common sense even though I am an extreme introvert.

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Well done first draft of the new age.

Revisado: 03-28-19

I just tried to add this book to my Facebook book list and it is not listed there. Must have hit a nerve.
I think the constant manipulation of Google, Facebook and others has noticeably begun to degrade our quality of life in ways that Zuboff outlines. These companies and their owners and CEOs are bad actors, a justifiable opinion not born of envy politics. We have a real problem.
This is not a fairy tale like bad words and dirty movies lead to mayhem. The internet is a socially interactive medium that borrows into core human nature and then social media monetizes that power.

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