Breitbart nomenclature

Now #StephenBannon is set free again to rule his little empire of Breitbart News. This may give him the time to focus on splitting the nation deeper. Over the past months we should have learned that #racism was never eradicated. It's been with us all the time, covered under the veil of welfare through consumption. This phase is over. Racism is deeper entrenched within us than we admitted ourselved to believe. The marketing of the taliban an ISIS has contributed to turning fear to hate. The oil gets pumped into the gap of existential fear that an anti-social neoliberalism created. We can condemn people for hating "fags", "muslims", "jews" or "niggers" - and we should. However, dialog should never stop […]

The omniscience bias: Why the internet spreads superstition

A challenge forces the brain figuratively to leave the comfort zone and enter a terrain of uncertainty. As a result it creates a gap of information to support one’s view on an issue and leaves gaps in the brain’s structure of knowledge. This “uncertainty effect” has been scientifically evaluated in 2006 by the Boston MIT and led to disturbing conclusions: The brain replaces missing information with an inexplicable fright, an “irrational by-product of not knowing — that keeps us from focusing on the possibility of future rewards”. Frankly: People want to know what they are already inclined to believe.

Das war also 2016

Ein Hohn ist der Glaube der Arbeiterklasse, sie seien für die Wirtschaft "mehr wert" als ein Flüchtling. Der Mensch ist ein Objekt mit Properties, mit Wert als Produktionsfaktor. Diese asozialen Werte werden von gerade jenen weitergetragen, die Opfer des Kapitalismus geworden sind. Ihre Angst objektiviert die noch Ärmeren und läßt Politiker über die Einschränkung von Grundrechten schwadronieren. Die menschliche Würde wird plötzlich in Frage gestellt. Das ist die schlimmste Entwicklung 2016.