Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Joseph A. Tainter says the reasons civilizations fail is an excess of complexity. Tainter has written or edited many articles and monographs. His arguably best-known work, The Collapse of Complex Societies (1988), examines the collapse of Maya and Chacoan civilizations,[2] and of the Western Roman Empire, in terms of network theory, energy economics and complexity…

We are half way through the bottom of a Kondratieff cycle. Each part of the cycle lasts about 20 years. 1. The rise – new technology lowers costs 2. The plateau – enjoying the fruits – nothing big on the horizon 3. The fall – the gains decline or get eaten 4. The bottom –…

The universe responds to everything. The human mind to only what it can encompass.

When it comes to giving birth people who identify as men are way under represented. Since gender is a social construct something must be done.

See update below. ( About 13 minutes)     This video is about how moral panics work. It is a very short history of moral panics.   ( About 22 1/2 minutes )     Here is the memo that triggered (heh) the current panic among the SJWs (Social Justice Warriors). Google’s Ideological Echo Chamber.…

( About 2 minutes ) National Education Association (NEA) General Counsel Bob Chanin talks about the purpose of his gang.

FOIA Dump Reveals Collusion Between Lynch, FBI And Media To Bury Bill Clinton Meeting …documents released today by the ACLJ reveal several emails between FBI and DOJ officials concerning the Lynch/Clinton meeting primarily related to how they should go about explaining the train wreck that had just been unwittingly played out on live television courtesy…

From Friday July 26th 2017: ( About 6 minutes ) And Seth Rich was the DNC leaker. This is from August 2nd 2017: ( About 8 1/2 minutes ) I don’t see how the Democrats recover from this in time for the Nov. 2018 election. But never underestimate the Republican propensity to do something stupid…

He is in trouble because none of the powers in America support him. Other than his voters of course. The analysis begins at 5:30 into this video. Assange did get one thing wrong. Trump got elected. ( About 6 minutes )

There is a very good discussion of the state of natural gas and the current energy wars (WW2 was mostly about oil) at Watts Up With That. The title is With OPEC Weakening, World Energy Now Pits Russia Versus U.S. You may want to go back and read my recent It’s A Gas which is…

A broken clock is right twice a day. Except if it is a 24 hour clock. Or worse a digital clock. Depending on how the digital clock breaks – it is never right. New batteries not included.

( About 38 Minutes ) What Stefan says in the video I have been saying for over 12 years. People in chronic pain chronically take pain relievers. Or as Stefan says, “You cannot solve the results of trauma with more trauma.” Some other (text) resources: The Federalist – The Surprising Link Between Broken Families And…

The Truth About The Awan Family Democrat IT Scandal Debbie Wasserman Schultz Exposed     (About one hour and 10 minutes) The TL;DR version begins at 59 minutes in. For an even shorter version try 1 hour and 7 minutes in. And just in case you were wondering. The fix is in. Steve Wasserman, Debbie’s…

Some very interesting speculation. I’m going with the first idea in the video which I came up with myself earlier today. Trump doesn’t like Sessions ramping up the Drug War and Civil Asset Forfeiture.     (About 12 1/2 minutes)

From Policing for profit. According to USA Today, “Anecdotal evidence suggests that allowing departments to keep forfeiture proceeds may tempt them to use the funds unwisely. For example, consider a 2015 scandal in Romulus, Michigan, where police officers used funds forfeited from illicit drug and prostitution stings to pay for … illicit drugs and prostitutes.”…

Inspired by this political announcement.       Update: 25 July 2017 1416z Looking around the ‘net this caught my eye since the US Military is a drug free work place. The show was at Kandahar, Afghanistan – 2008  

Jim Stone covers a lot of different topics. I found his site interesting.

John McCain has been diagnosed with a brain tumor. Just days after John McCain had a blood clot removed above his left eye, late on Wednesday his office announced that McCain has a brain tumor associated with the removed blood clot. In a statement doctors revealed that McCain has been diagnosed with glioblastoma, an aggressive…