intellectual Terrorism
Blog URL http://www.intellectualterrorism.net/
Tags intellectual, commentary, politics, media, psychology, policy, objectivity, rant, religion
Intellectual Terrorism is the misuse of the endless stream of information to support our own views of the world, and only our own views of the world, resulting in the widespread mindset that belief trumps fact.
Latest Blog Posts
- Sporadic quote of the day on Nov 13, 2008 in Quote of the Day Quote Scott Adams Travel
It's expensive to travel anywhere, but on the other hand, the new season of 24 is almost here. I don't need to go to faraway places and meet people when I can sit on my couch and watch Jack Bauer shoot those people. ~Scott Adams...
- Peer reviewed intellectualism on Nov 12, 2008 in Good Arguments Intellectualism Article Blogging Cartoon Internet Peer Review Webcomic Wikipedia xkcd
How wonderful would it be to have an automatic, collaborative peer-review process for anything stated under the guise of expert analysis?
- Communities for happiness and morality on Nov 12, 2008 in Atheism Religion Article
The sorry state of American atheists, then, may have nothing to do with their lack of religious belief. It may instead be the result of their outsider status within a highly religious country where many of their fellow citizens, including very vocal...
- What’s a pig if not a pig? on Nov 11, 2008 in Bad Arguments Abortion Article George Orwell Language
People need to start speaking out against argumentative obfuscation. If you're for something, say you're for. If you're against something, say you're against it. And if you think something's a pig, call it a pig.
- President-Elect Barack Obama on Nov 5, 2008 in History Inspirational Politics America Barack Obama Election
Barack Obama: President-Elect of the United States of America...
- Argue right … er, correct on Nov 5, 2008 in Bad Arguments Politics Barack Obama
Why claim to be against a candidate for a reason you know is patently false when there are plenty other perfectly valid reasons to do so? Is it intellectual laziness? Sheer stupidity? What??
- What will we evolve next? on Oct 26, 2008 in Evolution Science Article Fashion
I think the majority of us view evolution as something that happens to ensure a species survives, and rightly so. Ultimately that's all we see; any previous species that happened to develop adaptations not helping them survive would likely have been.
