How To Avoid Extinction
November 22, 2022
anxiety, being woke, destructive impulses, dinosaurs, group identity, Hannah Gais, intelligent life perils, kindness, marshmallow experiment, mental illness, mental stress globally, nuclear weapons, preserving social order, species extermination, suicide rates among the young, the Great Filter, the primitive human brain0 Comment
Life is full of danger. I blew up my microwave making oatmeal this week. On a grander scale, our species faces deadly problems: climate change, threats to democracy at home and abroad, and the omnipresent threat of nuclear war. Nine countries collectively possess about 1300 nuclear
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January 20, 2022
A Night at the Garden, Black Lives Matter, Cassie Miller, Charles Lindberg, Dante's Inferno, Elmo, Eric Hoffer, feminism, Fritz Kuhn, German American Bund, Hannah Gais, Jack Dorsey, Mitch McConnell, Paradise Lost, Proud Boys, QAnon, social media platforms, Tea Party Conservatives, Twitter, William Randolph Hearst
“The rubicon (sic) has been crossed. The fire of revolution has been lit.” So wrote a representative of the white supremacist group the Proud Boys on Telegram, after the January 6, 2021 insurrection. (“Capitol Insurrection,…” by Cassie Miller and Hannah Gais, Southern Po
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