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The Bilogical Vote: It's Implications for Conservatism. 23 Aug 2013 | 09:59 am
As mentioned in previous posts, the cognitive miser operates on intuition and feeling. Their opinions on matters can be considered as more akin to higher order reflexes responding to complex stimuli. ...
Some Thoughts on System 1 Thinking, IQ Debate and the Cathedral. 18 Aug 2013 | 06:09 am
Unlike most critics of IQ testing, I believe in their validity. Where I differ from most of the supporting crowd is that I recognise that the test has some practical real world limitations. It's true...
Commissar 14 Aug 2013 | 06:31 am
Jason Richwine recently put up a rather good post over at Politico. Why can't we talk about IQ should really be titled Why cant we talk about certain things? In my mind, the IQ debate is settled. Ov...
The Biological Vote. 7 Aug 2013 | 06:31 am
As mentioned in our previous post, most people tend to be Cognitive Misers. i.e. System 1 thinkers. It's important to point out, however, that it's a mistake however to think that System 1 responses ...
Half-wit. 2 Aug 2013 | 06:28 am
Gasset wasn't the first to notice the phenomenon of mass-man. Marx recognised his type in the lumpen-proletariat and Mencken saw his middle class equivalent in the booboise. Jesus called them his shee...
Revolt of the Masses: Epilogue. 30 Jul 2013 | 06:32 pm
What fundamentally weakens Gasset's book is Gasset's own philosophical system; which, despite his accurate analysis of the problem of modern European society, leads to solutions which are really non-s...
Revolt of the Masses:IV 26 Jul 2013 | 03:48 pm
Gasset's book loses steam after about mid-point and the devotes the rest of this book to the subject of the state, the cultural leadership of Europe and his proposed solution to problem of mass-man G...
Revolt of the Masses. III 22 Jul 2013 | 06:50 pm
Whenever I propose to limit the franchise to a competent minority, people immediately assume that I wish to restrict the vote to what are commonly considered the "educated" portion of our population:...
The Revolt of the Massess:II 20 Jul 2013 | 06:10 am
For Gasset, the decline in European Civilisation is attributed to the rise in the influence of a new type of man in history: mass-man. According to Gasset, mass-man gains his influence in European Hi...
The Revolt of the Masses: I 18 Jul 2013 | 09:54 am
A book I've been meaning to write about for a while now is Ortega y Gasset's*, Revolt of the Masses. It caused quite a stir when it first came out and appeared to be quite influential in intellectual ...
