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Doodling today is not what it was. Or is it? Google "doodle" and you'll find the Google Doodle — what Google calls a "fun, surprising, and sometimes spontaneous" transformation of its logo by a...
https://www.sott.net/article/493316-Doodle-nation-A-linguists-notes-on-distracted-drawing
On a podcast recently, UFC CEO Dana White compared cancel culture to the 1980s when LGBTs remained "in the closet," unable to be their true selves. Back then, White argued, coming out could destr...
https://www.sott.net/article/493148-Cancel-culture-is-killing-mental-health
Self-talk. Visualizations. Bodily awareness. Unconscious thought processes. In our day-to-day course of existence our minds assimilate, respond and react to any number of stimuli from within - an...
It is July 5, 2024, and America and Europe are theaters for total cultural war between the progressive postmodern elite that dominates the West and the insurgent populist resistance. This culture...
The curious case study of Dr. Helen Hsu, PsyD, "Rematriating Psychology," and how it illustrates the near-complete encroachment of cultural Marxism on western psychological science and practice. ...
All our inner monologues emerge from brain's very error-prone left hemisphere. My day job, which involves speculation in financial and commodities markets has formed me as a trend follower - both...
https://www.sott.net/article/492688-Transcending-our-left-brain-limitations
"Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction." — Slavoj Zizek A hidden hand sways us from beyond the veil of the unseen. Through the metaphysical purdah insulating our re...
The police repression of student protests exposes sheer intolerance towards those voicing condemnation against the violence in Gaza. The Transformation is accelerating. The harsh, often violent, ...
https://www.sott.net/article/491902-The-Beast-of-Ideology-Lifts-the-Lid-on-Transformation
As Laura Dodsworth writes in a recent article, the claim by members of SPI-B (the U.K. Government's Scientific Pandemic Insights Group on Behaviours) that they opposed the use of fear to control ...
https://www.sott.net/article/491540-Behavioural-science-at-its-worst
It's not too hot, it's not too cold and its forces act together in a way that's just right; why does the universe seem so perfectly tailor-made for life to exist? In his book aptly titled The Gol...
The world of psychology has recently experienced a profound loss with the passing of Daniel Kahneman, a pioneering figure whose work has reshaped our understanding of the human mind in many ways....
How Ivan Ilyin, a thinker falsely accused by some in the West - seeking to promote a certain narrative - of being a 'supporter of fascism', became so influential He was a staunch supporter of the...
So you've been 'red pilled'. You're well versed in false flags, deep states, secret governments, and state-sponsored assassinations. You've watched documentaries about stolen elections, the New W...
I've completely destroyed my abusers a few times. Stabbed, pummeled and stomped them into the ground. Blew them up in fiery explosions. I've stood in victorious glee over their corpses, even thou...
https://www.sott.net/article/490958-This-is-when-its-okay-to-annihilate-somebody
While experts disagree on how common self-talk really is, they wholeheartedly agree that it's a valuable tool for self-discovery. While writing this, I caught myself talking to... myself. Between...
https://www.sott.net/article/490881-What-an-inner-monologue-can-reveal-about-you
In December 2023, Michael Cassidy, a Navy veteran and devout Christian, encountered an obscene statue of Baphomet erected by the Satanic Temple inside the Iowa Statehouse. He tore it down. For th...
In the late Eighties and Nineties, the psychiatric profession became infatuated with "recovered memory", which was conceived in the US but also captivated Europe, including Britain. Practitioners...
I am tired of reading that Netanyahu is a psychopath. He most certainly is not. I see no reason to consider him, or any other Israeli leader, as psychopaths in the psychiatric sense. They have a ...
https://www.sott.net/article/485526-Israels-Biblical-Psychopathy
Idealism vs. materialism. Free will vs. determinism. Theism vs. atheism. Conspiracy vs. coincidence. LIHOP vs. MIHOP.1 Aliens vs. weather balloons. These are the dichotomous debates of our lives....
'There's something happening in the brain that makes no sense' Patient One was 24 years old and pregnant with her third child when she was taken off life support. It was 2014. A couple of years e...
https://www.sott.net/article/490376-The-new-hard-science-of-death
When a long-term memory forms, some brain cells experience a rush of electrical activity so strong that it snaps their DNA. Then, an inflammatory response kicks in, repairing this damage and help...
Recently at Psychology Today, psychotherapist Mark Shelvock asked some questions of philosopher Monika Mandoki, who has written a dissertation on near-death experiences (NDEs). Both are based at ...
https://www.sott.net/article/490086-A-philosopher-investigates-near-death-experiences
A new psychological assessment has been developed to measure the endorsement of attitudes related to critical social justice. Findings from its application in a Finnish study reveal that stronger...
Researchers are documenting a phenomenon that seems to help the dying, as well as those they leave behind. Chris Kerr was 12 when he first observed a deathbed vision. His memory of that summer in...
https://www.sott.net/article/489804-What-deathbed-visions-teach-us-about-living
There's currently lots of hoopla about some crybabies who want daddy to keep Substack clean and safe. They talk about "Nazis" on the platform, conveniently forgetting to define what they even mea...
https://www.sott.net/article/489217-How-to-Fight-the-Censorship-Mindset
David Abramowitz joins us once again, this time to discuss Michael Shellenberger and Peter Boghossian's Taxonomy of Woke Psychopathology. With Andrew Lobaczewski's Political Ponerology as inspira...
- The Borg are an alien group that appear as recurring antagonists in the Star Trek franchise. The Borg are cybernetic organisms linked in a hive mind called "the Collective". The Borg co-opt the...
Although a positive mindset is often associated with success, a new study suggests that excessive optimism often leads to poor decision-making, especially when it comes to finances. The study, co...
https://www.sott.net/article/488436-Optimistic-mindset-linked-to-poor-decision-making
We perceive our civic challenge as some vast, insoluble Rubik's Cube. Behind each problem lies another problem that must be solved first, and behind that lies yet another, and another, ad infinit...
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion offices are still deeply entrenched at our institutions — but the retrenchment is well under way. When he took office in 2021, Utah governor Spencer Cox, a Repu...
https://www.sott.net/article/488113-John-Sailer-The-DEI-rollback
The train wasn't scheduled for another 20 minutes, so I had a chance to contemplate the official sign on the door of the huge elevator leading to the platform. It said that only four people are a...
https://www.sott.net/article/488013-A-nation-of-non-compliers
The word resilience can be perplexing. Does it mean remaining calm when faced with stress? Bouncing back quickly? Growing from adversity? Is resilience an attitude, a character trait or a skill s...
The ancient idea of spiritual gnosis has evolved and branched to reflect the time and place in which we live. Nowhere is this development more evident than in the writings and scholarship of auth...
Mozart, the great and enduring musical genius, doesn't conform to our stereotypical notion of a musical prodigy. Did he practice for hours per day? Nope. Was he well intentioned with his plans? A...
https://www.sott.net/article/487281-The-time-traveling-mistake-we-make-when-we-procrastinate
New research, published in PLOS Biology, shows that tears from women contain chemicals that block aggression in men. The study led by Shani Agron at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, fin...
The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes, nor between political parties either — but right through every human heart — and through all human hearts. �...
https://www.sott.net/article/487130-Gladness-and-silence-amid-chaos-and-violence
Last week, I received the following email from the National Association of Scholars (NAS): Join the National Association of Scholars on Friday, December 8, at 3 pm ET for "Restoring the Sciences:...
https://www.sott.net/article/486799-How-scientific-materialism-begot-woke-ideology
Have you ever felt you were being watched? Almost everybody has. It's a scientific phenomenon that is universal. More than 80 per cent of women, and nearly three-quarters of men, questioned in Br...
Truth-speaking (or truth-telling) is not the same as truth. At least not in the familiar sense of a correspondence between what is stated and the state of affairs to which it corresponds - the so...
https://www.sott.net/article/486689-Truth-speaking-and-the-technocratic-cabal
In a compelling revival of a classic social psychology experiment, a new study has found that group pressure significantly influences individual decisions, not just in simple tasks but also in ex...
I went to the local mall this weekend and seeing all the pseudo-men and pseudo-women walking around and seeing all the glittering products attempting to appeal to these people, I thought that I h...
https://www.sott.net/article/486668-The-attack-of-the-pseudo-men
The glue of expertise that held our complicated social machinery together is coming apart, yet we continue to shift more and more responsibility to failing institutions. The outcome won't be pret...
https://www.sott.net/article/486478-The-competency-crisis-is-upon-us
Several months back, someone emailed me the following: I nominate Sam Harris for YouTube's prize for "Person with the Best One-Liner Joke except for the fact that he was being serious," for his r...
https://www.sott.net/article/486245-On-free-will-ChatGPT4-blows-away-atheist-Sam-Harris
What do altered states tell us about the nature of consciousness? And what can philosophy tell us about altered states? John Buchanan has spent his life trying to find the answers. His book, Proc...
The childcare system of a contemporary hunter-gatherer community suggests a major pitfall of the nuclear family, and it could hint at why so many parents in wealthy, Western nations feel burned o...
How Walter Kirn's encounter with psychopathy changed his worldview For twenty years German immigrant Christian Gerhartsreiter pretended to be a Rockefeller. He befriended novelist and essayist Wa...
https://www.sott.net/article/485875-An-Initiation-into-the-Reality-of-Evil
Are all psychopaths serial killers? Is authoritarianism only found on the political right? Are we all equally capable of evil? Does power really corrupt absolutely? And is evil really "banal"? Jo...
When you act like a psychopath, you clear the way for actual psychopaths. Too many people believe in a cookie-cutter account of human nature, that everyone is basically the same, basically good u...
"We are at an inflection point, a threshold, where weak, brittle, effete personality structures are a threat to human civilization." — JD Haltigan on X You might have noticed that the massive i...
à bientôt We are deeply sad to announce that a core member of the Sott.net and Cassiopaea.org team, Pierre Lescaudron, has passed from this life, leaving us, and all of you who knew and loved h...
https://www.sott.net/article/485265-In-Memoriam-Pierre-Lescaudron