Just wanted to leave a quick note: you may have noticed earlier today an outage of all my sites. Everything seems back to normal. It sounds like DreamHost had a fire or something in one of their data centers, but it’s all fixed now.
In other news, I am about to head down for a […]

In a recent post, a reader named Gnomely accused B.F. Skinner’s logic around Behaviorism to be a logical fallacy, reductio ad absurdum, to be precise.
The topic of logical fallacies is an interesting one. In our efforts to be rational, we tend to try to dissect one another’s arguments and determine the validity of them. […]

Apologies if this train of thought is beginning to bore anyone, but I feel like there’s some deep and vital shift in my thinking going on – and it just so happens to be running its course by way of an alternative re-envisioning of “classic” conspiracy theory narratives.
Classic conspiracy theory basically states that there […]

A technocracy in essence, is a government by experts: ie, scientists, sociologists, civil planners, etc. I have been speculating that this was essentially the true purpose of groups like the Illuminati, which I think can be inferred through quotes by Adam Weishaupt (the group’s founder) such as this:
For this purpose he would unite men in […]

Still chipping away at a complex of ideas here relating to scientific principles and human life. There’s one passage on Wikipedia about the behaviorist mentality of B.F. Skinner that has been kicking around in my mind:
As understood by Skinner, ascribing dignity to individuals involves giving them credit for their actions. To say “Skinner is brilliant” […]