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POPSChris Hedges: "We owe Nader an apology" According to Chris Hedges, progressives were sold a bill of goods with the Obama campaign -- empty slogans and no real pressure for change. I don't entirely agree, but I'm getting there. Clipped mainly for this: " he question not how do we get good people to rule -- those attracted to power tend to be venal mediocrities -- but how do we limit the damage the powerful do to us." Archived at Iterasi: sqrl.it/?jre18.
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POPSYour self-understanding is probably even worse than you think A new psychology experiment uses techniques from popular magic to demonstrate that people misunderstand and misrepresent the reasons behind their own choices. Participants were asked to choose which of two alternatives they preferred, and subsequently to justify their choice. However, experimenters surreptitiously swapped the alternatives immediately after the participant had announced a choice, and most never noticed, in most cases even giving "reasons" for why they had "chosen" the option they were presented with (even though they had, in fact, picked the other option).
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