COEXISTential
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Moral psychology, politics and religion.
Coexisting with ideologies of hierarchy and hegemony is not coexistence.
#FElon
Coexisting with ideologies of hierarchy and hegemony is not coexistence.
#FElon
How to tell you're an older person at the gym.
I make more noise getting on and off the bench than I do lifing weights.
About the same amount of noise as that gym bro on his first rep.
I make more noise getting on and off the bench than I do lifing weights.
About the same amount of noise as that gym bro on his first rep.
October 21, 2025 at 2:54 PM
How to tell you're an older person at the gym.
I make more noise getting on and off the bench than I do lifing weights.
About the same amount of noise as that gym bro on his first rep.
I make more noise getting on and off the bench than I do lifing weights.
About the same amount of noise as that gym bro on his first rep.
Dear America
If the shut down happens, y'all should just go on a general strike. Especially the air traffic controllers. And say on every platform and placard available that it's on the GOP.
If the shut down happens, y'all should just go on a general strike. Especially the air traffic controllers. And say on every platform and placard available that it's on the GOP.
October 1, 2025 at 10:56 PM
Dear America
If the shut down happens, y'all should just go on a general strike. Especially the air traffic controllers. And say on every platform and placard available that it's on the GOP.
If the shut down happens, y'all should just go on a general strike. Especially the air traffic controllers. And say on every platform and placard available that it's on the GOP.
Can anyone explain to me how it is that Angela Rayner has had to resign, yet from the omnishambles of the Johnson government, only Matt Hancock did?
September 7, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Can anyone explain to me how it is that Angela Rayner has had to resign, yet from the omnishambles of the Johnson government, only Matt Hancock did?
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I wrote down some notes on privatization and the transfer of wealth. Tell the MAGA in your lives that they’re subsidizing billionaires by voting for republicans.
August 24, 2025 at 3:26 PM
I wrote down some notes on privatization and the transfer of wealth. Tell the MAGA in your lives that they’re subsidizing billionaires by voting for republicans.
As someone from outside America, is the National Guard not also obliged to refuse illegal orders?
August 24, 2025 at 9:13 PM
As someone from outside America, is the National Guard not also obliged to refuse illegal orders?
"I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people ... if a system of death camps were set up... of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town."
Stanley Milgram, CBS, 60 Minutes, March 31, 1979
Stanley Milgram, CBS, 60 Minutes, March 31, 1979
June 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
"I would say, on the basis of having observed a thousand people ... if a system of death camps were set up... of the sort we had seen in Nazi Germany, one would be able to find sufficient personnel for those camps in any medium-sized American town."
Stanley Milgram, CBS, 60 Minutes, March 31, 1979
Stanley Milgram, CBS, 60 Minutes, March 31, 1979
"The barrier for entry in the marketplace [of ideas] was now so low that drawings [of the Laffer Curve] on napkins and large block quotes from David Hume were taken seriously by many, including the president of the United States."
--Jason Stahl in 'Right Moves', p. 100-101
--Jason Stahl in 'Right Moves', p. 100-101
May 17, 2025 at 10:02 AM
"The barrier for entry in the marketplace [of ideas] was now so low that drawings [of the Laffer Curve] on napkins and large block quotes from David Hume were taken seriously by many, including the president of the United States."
--Jason Stahl in 'Right Moves', p. 100-101
--Jason Stahl in 'Right Moves', p. 100-101
Not sure how many people are following UK news, but the spurious arguments against the assisted dying bill are doing my head in. Foremost amongst them the doctors invoking the Hippocratic Oath.
I'm sorry, but calling ending a person's intolerable and immedicable pain "harm" is a misuse of the word.
I'm sorry, but calling ending a person's intolerable and immedicable pain "harm" is a misuse of the word.
May 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Not sure how many people are following UK news, but the spurious arguments against the assisted dying bill are doing my head in. Foremost amongst them the doctors invoking the Hippocratic Oath.
I'm sorry, but calling ending a person's intolerable and immedicable pain "harm" is a misuse of the word.
I'm sorry, but calling ending a person's intolerable and immedicable pain "harm" is a misuse of the word.
Neoliberslism is "commodifying our attention and profiting from our impulses, it is limiting our opportunities and forcing us to work bullshit jobs..."
More:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/03/...
More:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/03/...
Why Neoliberalism Has Failed Us: How Republican Economic Policies Promote Inequality – Michigan Journal of Economics
sites.lsa.umich.edu
May 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Neoliberslism is "commodifying our attention and profiting from our impulses, it is limiting our opportunities and forcing us to work bullshit jobs..."
More:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/03/...
More:
sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/03/...
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln
It can be a bit pretentious starting a paper with a quote, but this seems highly apt.
www.humanitiesforwisdom.org/uploads/5/8/...
It can be a bit pretentious starting a paper with a quote, but this seems highly apt.
www.humanitiesforwisdom.org/uploads/5/8/...
www.humanitiesforwisdom.org
May 4, 2025 at 12:04 PM
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." -- Abraham Lincoln
It can be a bit pretentious starting a paper with a quote, but this seems highly apt.
www.humanitiesforwisdom.org/uploads/5/8/...
It can be a bit pretentious starting a paper with a quote, but this seems highly apt.
www.humanitiesforwisdom.org/uploads/5/8/...
It's been a while, and this post isn't ist if the ongoing series on Authoritarianism, instead it's about the Sharon Statement, the finding document of US Conservatism (so it's a little bit about authoritarianism):
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April 18, 2025 at 1:00 PM
It's been a while, and this post isn't ist if the ongoing series on Authoritarianism, instead it's about the Sharon Statement, the finding document of US Conservatism (so it's a little bit about authoritarianism):
www.coexistential.net/index.php/20...
www.coexistential.net/index.php/20...
The attack on Ivy League tax status feels a lot like the right-wing "think" tank ecosystem getting their own back after all their struggles with tax exemption... Admittedly that was mostly in the 70s.
April 17, 2025 at 9:15 AM
The attack on Ivy League tax status feels a lot like the right-wing "think" tank ecosystem getting their own back after all their struggles with tax exemption... Admittedly that was mostly in the 70s.
For those following English news, I reckon Judas Priest sounds buy the Scunthorpe steel plant.
April 14, 2025 at 5:16 PM
For those following English news, I reckon Judas Priest sounds buy the Scunthorpe steel plant.
In 1941 Douglas Miller published a book called 'You Can't Do Business With Hitler.'
Not sure why that in particular jumped out of this old US Army Fact Sheet I'm reading:
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism
archive.org/details/Army...
Not sure why that in particular jumped out of this old US Army Fact Sheet I'm reading:
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism
archive.org/details/Army...
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism! : Army Orientation Branch: Information and Education Division : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
March 24, 1945. Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 Fascism! A sheet printed and distributed by the United States War Department as an educational tool for...
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April 10, 2025 at 10:14 PM
In 1941 Douglas Miller published a book called 'You Can't Do Business With Hitler.'
Not sure why that in particular jumped out of this old US Army Fact Sheet I'm reading:
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism
archive.org/details/Army...
Not sure why that in particular jumped out of this old US Army Fact Sheet I'm reading:
Army Talk Orientation Fact Sheet #64 - Fascism
archive.org/details/Army...
"Some people go way beyond the norm and submit to authority even when it is dishonest, corrupt, unfair and evil."
Latest post from my (re)-read through Bob Altemeyer's 'The #Authoritarians'.
Delay due to work/social commitments.
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Latest post from my (re)-read through Bob Altemeyer's 'The #Authoritarians'.
Delay due to work/social commitments.
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
What is Authoritarian Submission? – COEXISTential
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March 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
"Some people go way beyond the norm and submit to authority even when it is dishonest, corrupt, unfair and evil."
Latest post from my (re)-read through Bob Altemeyer's 'The #Authoritarians'.
Delay due to work/social commitments.
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
Latest post from my (re)-read through Bob Altemeyer's 'The #Authoritarians'.
Delay due to work/social commitments.
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
Latest Learning Out Loud post on Authoritarianism.
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
They are submissive, yet aggressive, and very conventionally-minded.
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They are submissive, yet aggressive, and very conventionally-minded.
What is a Psychological Authoritarian? – COEXISTential
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February 20, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Latest Learning Out Loud post on Authoritarianism.
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They are submissive, yet aggressive, and very conventionally-minded.
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
They are submissive, yet aggressive, and very conventionally-minded.
“Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up between themselves.”
-- Bob Altemeyer on #Authoritarianism
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-- Bob Altemeyer on #Authoritarianism
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What is Authoritarianism? – COEXISTential
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February 13, 2025 at 9:52 PM
“Authoritarianism is something authoritarian followers and authoritarian leaders cook up between themselves.”
-- Bob Altemeyer on #Authoritarianism
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-- Bob Altemeyer on #Authoritarianism
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First blog post talking about authoritarianism is now up:
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
I wanted to post with yesterday's date to mark the first anniversary of the death of Authoritarianism researcher, Bob Altemeyer.
I'm very new to WordPress, so please excuse the clunkiness of it all.
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I wanted to post with yesterday's date to mark the first anniversary of the death of Authoritarianism researcher, Bob Altemeyer.
I'm very new to WordPress, so please excuse the clunkiness of it all.
Authoritarianism research and Bob Altemeyer – COEXISTential
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February 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
First blog post talking about authoritarianism is now up:
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
I wanted to post with yesterday's date to mark the first anniversary of the death of Authoritarianism researcher, Bob Altemeyer.
I'm very new to WordPress, so please excuse the clunkiness of it all.
coexistential.net/index.php/20...
I wanted to post with yesterday's date to mark the first anniversary of the death of Authoritarianism researcher, Bob Altemeyer.
I'm very new to WordPress, so please excuse the clunkiness of it all.
I'm thinking of taking a leaf out of Ian @innuendostudios.bsky.social Danskin's book and do a semi-regular blog about what I'm learning while I research the psychology of Authoritarianism (for a book I'm writing). ADHD permitting.
Any interest?
Any interest?
January 31, 2025 at 3:57 PM
I'm thinking of taking a leaf out of Ian @innuendostudios.bsky.social Danskin's book and do a semi-regular blog about what I'm learning while I research the psychology of Authoritarianism (for a book I'm writing). ADHD permitting.
Any interest?
Any interest?
It's a dark day for the US #blackout
The Manchurian candidate is now the #ManchurianPresident and then there is the small matter of the unelected #FElon #Muskovite
The Manchurian candidate is now the #ManchurianPresident and then there is the small matter of the unelected #FElon #Muskovite
January 20, 2025 at 1:36 PM
It's a dark day for the US #blackout
The Manchurian candidate is now the #ManchurianPresident and then there is the small matter of the unelected #FElon #Muskovite
The Manchurian candidate is now the #ManchurianPresident and then there is the small matter of the unelected #FElon #Muskovite