BRUCE LERRO—During World War II many European social psychologists fled Europe and contributed some of the best research on group dynamics. This included Asch’s experiment on conformity, and Sherif’s experiments on inter-group conflict. This was followed in the 60s by Moscovici’s study on the power of minorities to influence majorities and Milgram’s great experiment on obedience.
CULTURE & CRITICISM
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The Three Pillars Of America Empire Are Falling Down
20 Mins readINDRAJIT—American propaganda was based on repeating one big lie — that they were the ‘good guys’ — across news, entertainment, and media in general. They repeated that lie so often it felt like truth, but now they’ve lost control of the narrative completely. Whatever’s left of the American reputation is buried under Gaza now.
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BRUCE LERRO—As famous and respected as he is now, Mead had little influence over the historical development of social psychology because he was a Hegelian and social psychology developed within a Cartesian paradigm. Also, Mead followed Peirce instead of the more individualist James and Dewey as did his fellow sociologists at Chicago.
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EDITOR—A war on off- patent, FDA-approved, inexpensive, safe “repurposed drugs” has been waged by the pharmaceutical industry for decades in an attempt to preserve profits for novel, patented, high-profit drugs. Ivermectin, a well-known antiviral and anti-parasitic drug (currently a generic, hence its low cost) is at the center of a huge controversy with establishment entities—government agencies, industry groups (Big Pharma), and most media trying to badmouth and criminalise the upstart drug in favor of much more expensive and profitable new drugs patented by Pfizer and similar pharmaceutical oligopolies which may not work as well as Ivermectin.
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RON UNZ—A sort of frenzied blood-lust and megalomania seems rampant across Israeli society, with the leaders seemingly unaware of just how bizarre they may appear to most of the rest of the world. Not long after the Hamas attack, a top Israeli political figure interviewed on KremlinTV had denounced Russia for being insufficiently pro-Israel in the current conflict and therefore outrageously threatened the country possessing the world’s largest nuclear arsenal. The Israeli government and organized Jewry have often stoked this sort of paranoia, with Israel’s national broadcaster releasing a propaganda video showing sweet young Israeli children singing a song calling for the total annihilation of Gaza and all of its inhabitants.