Promote Yourself Monday: November 21, 2022

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Welcome to Promote Yourself Monday.  All Go Dog Go Cafe community members are invited to post one link to one specific piece of their writing (600 words or less please!) they have published on their blog, Facebook page, or Instagram feed into the comments section below.

If you post a link, be sure to read some of the other great writing people have linked to.

16 thoughts on “Promote Yourself Monday: November 21, 2022”

  5. Reblogged this on Ivor.Plumber/Poet and commented:

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  10. Dear All,

    The salient issues of democracy versus autocracy aside, there are many sobering implications of authoritarianism, which is a very topical area to explore the many outstanding tensions between (the sociopsychological states of) sanity/stability and insanity/instability, affecting even the very existence and survival of humanity. In recent years, many citizens have willingly aligned themselves with misinformation, disinformation, post-truth politics, demagoguery, plutocracy, oligarchy, ochlocracy, kleptocracy, kakistocracy, narcissistic leadership, neoliberalism, globalization, clerical fascism and Trumpism. We can also agree that the ongoing chaos inflicted by the Trump presidency finally culminated in the infamous riot at the Capitol. You and I can be justified for being cynical, snide, snarky and facetious in characterizing Trump as the symbolic messiah who is going to lead his misguided supporters, sycophants and funders to glory on Earth and the promised land! It is often futile to reason with such misguided folks. Perhaps only when the country truly becomes autocratic or fascist, or when it plunges into a civil war, will such folks wake up, but then it will be too late. Consequently, any reasonable person can conclude that the USA has been plagued by ignorance, dogma, falsity, blind faith, spiritual stagnation and epistemological impasse . . . . .

    Needless to say, due to misinformation and disinformation as well as the pandemic and other global issues, 2020 to 2022 as well as the past few years had been very difficult and trying, not to mention having to deal with the pandemic. It was all quite surreal, perhaps in some ways more bizarre than ghosts and the paranormal (not that I believe in such things). One could indeed say that we live in interesting times, but often for the wrong reasons. It is all quite a big mess in danger of getting bigger still. Even a global pandemic and an insurrection at the citadel of democracy still cannot unite folks in the USA and wake them up. Perhaps it will take an even bigger crisis to do so, such as a series of climate change disasters.

    Unfortunately, the unsavoury or deplorable nature of corrupt politicians and their funders and supporters can also be found in different ways, shapes and forms in many regular folks, because we human beings are very susceptible to various behavioural traps, cognitive flaws and mental biases. In any case, I would like to encourage you to peruse my post catchily entitled We have Paleolithic Emotions; Medieval Institutions; and God-like Technology“, the presentation of which is highly illustrative and animated. It is published at

    http://soundeagle.wordpress.com/2021/12/31/we-have-paleolithic-emotions-medieval-institutions-and-god-like-technology/

    This is a very substantial and topically important post, even dealing with the fundamental problems and the existential crisis of the human species, looming ever larger. I look forward to your perusing my said post and welcome your input and feedback there. Please enjoy!

    Yours sincerely,
    SoundEagle

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