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If the responsibility for today’s reality loses meaning in the purer forms of collective dream- and tradition thinking, then facts also lose their meaning there.… Read More »Are Facts In-Between?

Watched two presentations by historian Timothy Snyder on YouTube today. He dares. Sees sweeping relations. The strip of land between Russia and Germany as a… Read More »Politics of Dreams and Politics of Tradition?

Good. I have been able to play with my new Python workbooks for two weeks now to find answers to the questions raised by the… Read More »To Observe and to Know

Today is Thanksgiving in the US, November 29, 2020. Our jurisdictions not only face the pandemic but also face the transition into market societies, running… Read More »Mixed Signals

If phantom pain is the pain you feel in a sorely missing part of your body, then phantom knowledge is the knowledge you feel to… Read More »Phantom Knowledge

Reading the Data In Fig. 1, the numbers of new registered COVID infections and the numbers of new COVID deaths per week are given, as… Read More »A COVID-19 Interim Report (5): Phantom Knowledge and 3 policy brands

Earlier I wrote this: Factions are (initially) small organized, deviant groups within a larger whole, for example in politics. Factions are endemic to that bigger… Read More »Endemic Bullshit

Woodward summarizes Kushner’s characterization of Trump in Chapter 33 of “Rage.” As follows: “[…] on February 8, 2020, Kushner advised others on the four texts… Read More »Woodward’s Humanity

He had been building toy worlds for a while now, to show himself how they behave when his personal assumptions and narratives are played out… Read More »All Those Truths

Mr. Sum started reading Woodward’s Rage yesterday. Fascinating and potentially useful for estimating how data, beliefs and networks play their roles in White House federal… Read More »Rage, Woodward and Data