this is what happens when division-of-labour creates enough silos

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Game Theories

game theories
This is an article about MMORPG economies, and how they could be a sandbox for economic experiments. Supremely fascinating read.

Self deception

Our brains are belief engines. They have a tendency to seek and find patterns.They have a tendency to fill the gaps and connect the dots . And they will fill the gaps.

We have a need to believe. This gives rise to things like superstition.

watch the full video .


See also: Pavlov's dog, Skinner's rat

TED Talk by Michael Shermer

Other's in the running are (RSAAnimate videos/youtube):
Philip Zimbardo's Powers of time video,
( and also, The Stanford Prison Experiment )
Jeremy Rifkin's Empathic Civillization
- ".. the first drive is the drive to belong. when this is inhibited/repressed, secondary drives such as aggression,violence,narcissism, materialism show up.. "

The Purusha Sukta .. or maybe not

And so the arts and sciences were ordered to stand still, and society was divided and sub-divided into functions and professions, trades and crafts. Every man was doomed to follow the occupation of his father, to marry within his own class, to die as he was born. Hope was torn out of the
human life. Egypt was no longer a nation, but an assemblage of torpid castes isolated from one another and breeding in and in. It was no longer a body animated by the same heart, fed by the same blood,
**
but an automaton neatly pieced together, of which the head was the
priesthood,
the arms were the army, and the feet the working-class.
**
In quiescence it was a perfect image of the living form, but a touch came from without,
and the arms broke asunder at the joints and fell upon the ground.

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Winwood Reade, The Martyrdom of Man

redundancy

I'm going to stop thinking entirely and start reading zacharyburt

All that I store in scattered ,ripped consciousness & memory is presented line by line, post by post by this guy on his blog.


suggested reading/listening/video-watching : shinzen young and rick hansen

your right to fresh air

Ted talk by 'Kamal Meattle' lists three powerful indoor plants which can
supply all the fresh air you need
line here

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when you leave
I shall come to the door
but I won't say anything

good things on the net

the RSAnimate videos on youtube are fantastic - the one on time,the one on drive ..
the one on empathy is next.

two movies

Heat
Gun battle in the street. what every boy has day-dreamed and done simulations of ever since we could fold two fingers and say 'bang'. Lovely seaside house . One more thing - check out movie firearms database page for this movie

Enemy of the State
cool electronic gear pressed into law enforcement service (or the other way round) - additional points for the cool gear being government issue.

bonus reco
Snatch
armed robbery, ethnic networks as conduits, attitude, superior game, bad boy ethics ...

double bonus feature
dark knight. is real cool stuff. a hero who's finally not a clown in a cartoon town ...

one more
robocop - for the cyberpunk dystopian streets, a few scenes only, though