Opit's LinkFest!: 15 January - Political Psychology

TZA Art & Enrichment Day (Photo credit: tim ellis)

English: Neural Correlates Of Consciousness (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Consciousness Awakening on Vimeo by Ralph Buckley (Photo credit: Ralph Buckley)

Billing for A Hedge, Backwards (Photo credit: Reeding Lessons)

Psychobabble. I was bugged by Hullballoo's article* on Libertarian ideology as an exercise replicating the situation cautioned against in

Luke 6:42 - Online Parallel Bible

First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to
remove the speck from your brother's eye." King James Bible (Cambridge Ed.) ...

bible.cc/luke/6-42.htmAlready we are cautioned about Executive Overreach.

IDEAS / Bill Meacham : Speaking of Consciousness

thorne dreyer at The Rag Blog - 55 minutes ago

Image from TZA's photostream / Flickr. Speaking of consciousness The cardinal sin of philosophy, committed all too often, is to use terms that are ambiguous. By Bill Meacham / The Rag Blog / January 15, 2013 The philosophy club is currently studying Philosophy of Mind, a topic fraught with ambiguity. People use terms such as “mind,” “consciousness,” “awareness,” “experience,” and so forth as

Pedophilia and the failure of libertarian ideology*

It's too obvious that, difficult as it may be for liberals and conservatives alike, the best approach to the pedophilia problem is early identification, treatment, compassion and active steps to integrate them safely into society to prevent them from going underground and actualizing their desires by abusing children.

I recall a particularly nasty film by Stanley Kubrick warning against exactly this sort of proposition : "Clockwork Orange." Can you imagine a more over the top policy than Thought Police ? ( The War on Terror and War on Drugs come to mind . One says torture and killing is solely the province of uniformed state sanctioned goons....often operating outside the sponsoring state and outside the court system of subject occupied territories. How else can you have international torture rampant by a signatory of international law forbidding it ?

The other claims the state should regulate what a person puts in their own body : which opens up the question of "Whose body is it ?")

And then there is the matter of psychology. I well recall days of the 60's when the USSR was claimed and decried as using 'clinics' and mind altering drugs to repress dissent under the guise of treating mental illness. Meanwhile minds in the West were being scrambled by electroshock. And that was done openly.

"Whose mind is it ? "

This should come under 'Opening the Floodgates of Moral Ambiguity.'

"Bipartisan" House GOP says: Can you really put a price on the defense of ignorance, bigotry, and hatred?

KenInNY at DownWithTyranny! - 2 hours ago

*Why, it's the all-Republican "bipartisan" majority of the House's "Bipartisan" Legal Advisory Group ("B"LAG)!* *"In a statement this week, House Democrats said the agreement was reached in secret and they weren't aware of it until late Monday."* *-- Chris Johnson, **reporting for the *Washington Blade* on the* *House GOP's secret doubling of the budget for defending DOMA* *by Ken* In October I wrote a post asking, "Does anyone believe the now-spent $1.5M is all 'Sunny John' Boehner will ram through for the defense of DOMA ignorance and hatred?" The $1.5M, you'll recall, was authori... more »

Obama Will Use Children as Props for Gun Control Announcement

Intercept at The Intercept - 2 hours ago

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2old2care at Because I Can - 3 hours ago

I just forced myself to listen to a 10 minute presentation on a radio program sponsored by the extremist right-wing free-market radio station from the John Locke Foundation in North Carolina. They were talking about ALEC. In fact they were whining about how the American Legislative Exchange Council is being picked on by the left -whining, whining, whining. They spent ten minutes trying to get the listener to believe that ALEC is just like NCSL. I get so sick of that argument. While I was listening to it I thought of this quote from a PR Watch articlethat was released today (my em...more »

Berlusconi: Libya's "Revolution" is a FAKE!

Saman Mohammadi at The Excavator - 3 hours ago

*"We Came, We Saw, He Died."* - Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. The same could not be said about Osama Bin Laden's departure. In that case, U.S. solders bravely went to Afghanistan, saw, and at the last minute were pulled back and prevented from killing Bin Laden in 2001 by their superiors in D.C. He later died of natural causes, hardly the spectacular ending to his life that is portrayed in "Zero Dark Thirty." There is zero truth in that film. Bin Laden's image as a menacing dragon who has the ability to escape the reach of the United States was central in the selling... more »

Jeffrey Masson: Freud, Seduction, and the New Puritanism

The intellectual and emotional distance separating Frank Sulloway's Freud,
Biologist of the ...... And that is what happened; Ferenczi died, but he did not
recant.
publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft4w10062x&chunk.id=ch2
Project MUSE - Freud's Traumatic Memory

The first is the genre of works that seeks to gain insight into Freud's
psychoanalytic theorizing by examining Freud's biography. The second is the
recent spate of ...
muse.jhu.edu/books/9780820705699
Does Freudian repression exist? « Mind Hacks

Apr 17, 2008 ... Rofé is careful to point out that Freud's ideas about the repression of memory
were ... Insomnia, mirror neurons and the recanting of bluster » ...
mindhacks.com/2008/04/17/does-freudian-repression-exist/