Longshott's Blog

It seems to me that a prejudice in favor of political action is a fundamental and unjustified human bias. It makes us celebrate leaders who ...

The Pre-religious worldview said “might makes right”; The post-religious worldview now says might makes wrong. The religious worldview says ...

Which belief is more likely to produce hostility? 1. There are only two types of people in this world: good people like you on one side of a...

If Kevin Kelly is right that the invented increasingly resembles the created ( Out of Control ), and if Clay Christensen is right that assoc...

Communalism without individualism is slavery; Individualism without communalism is misery

The best way to get fascism in society is to convince people that something equivalent to fascism is the opposite of fascism, thus leading t...

Psychologist Steven Pinker often says that we believe in God because our brain is playing a trick on us—we’ve evolved for survival, not for ...