Persuasive Design, provocations and use of anticipated reaction Michael Moore has given five reasons why Donald Trump is going to win the presidential election (link). I will present explanation number 6. While MM’s article is built on precise analytical points about the electorate and the decisive minorities and states this article has to do with Trump’s superior use of provocation…
Category: Politics
Psychiatry of Mass Killings: Necessary and sufficient conditions?
Is the political motive if any justification or real cause? In Europe we experience a trend in explaining and understanding mass killings. We have had them in Paris, Bruxelles, in Nice, in Munich, in Oslo and in Winnenden (Germany). In US, we can mention city after city. It is quite obvious that the killings in Paris were arranged by islamists…
Nice Massacre and The French Connection
Comment The Nice Massacre July 14 was horrifying. At this stage of public understanding one of the first words that turns up in the statements by statesmen seems to be ‘terror’. Maybe this is not at all surprising as most of the comments are made by politicians or experts who will allways bring events into a political context. Even if…
Google: When Public Authorities are allowed to buy bias (by SEO)
Google should be seen as disqualified. If Google was publicly driven the behavior could be seen as strictly and generally abuse of power. Maybe the idea of one great truth is an illusion. But truth as idea is not. The idea of plain empirical thruth seems undermined by manipulated priority mechanisms inaccessible to any normal user. The idea of…