About Deep Capture The Deep Capture website was created to bypass the “captured” institutions that mediate our nation’s discourse. It was initially funded by Patrick Byrne, CEO of Overstock.com, but it is not part of Overstock. It functions as a separate, limited liability media company. Public choice theory describes a phenomenon whereby industries take control […]
A happy Thanksgiving to all of you. I don’t like listening to podcasts but this one is exceptional—off the charts exceptional. If you don’t listen to or read another thing I send you for the rest of the year, please take the time to listen to this one. Note that there is 30 second infomercial […]
THE FIFTH ACCESS CYBER THERAPY AND QUANTUM CYBERDYNAMICS With the advent of psychiatry and twentieth century psychology, people threw out thousands of years of previous psychological insight and practice. The insights of various eastern disciplines, such as yoga, Zen Buddhism, and Sufism, have come back into fashion via the […]
Well worth listening to: If the “facts” presented are only partly true, they are very much worth following up. Now it may be that the story about the reversibility of some of the Dominion voting machines is Russian or Chinese disinformation or even propaganda from the right, but if a foreign power really wanted to […]
What did the “whistleblower” Democrats bent on impeachment and Republicans have in common? We might say that they focused on and continue to focus on politically trivial ideas, but the problem goes much deeper than that. There is a radical failure in the Democratic collective to understand what the Founders intended for America, and a […]
The Principles of Psychology, William James (1890) CHAPTER XXIV. [1] INSTINCT INSTINCT is usually defined as the faculty of acting in such a way as to produce certain ends, without foresight of the ends, and without previous education in the performance . That instincts, as thus defined, exist on an enormous scale in the […]
By ALFRED KAZIN Philosophers of considerable reputation are usually more admired than loved, but William James inspired affection even among his fellow philosophers. Alfred North Whitehead referred to him as that “adorable genius.” His Harvard colleague and department head, George Herbert Palmer, said “We found in him a masterful type of human being, developed […]
“In considering] the problem of why it is so hard for men to be happy, [we see that one source of unhappiness is] the inadequacy of the regulations which adjust the mutual relationships of human beings in the family, the state and society. . . . [When we think about this,] we come upon a […]
(Taken from Tony Robbins talk on Why We Do What We Do, which was modified from an original TED talk give in 2006) Certainty (covers survival and needs) Uncertainty (this one seems almost counter-intuitive until you take some time to think about it) Significance (men in particular, being testosterone-driven, seek significance and will die for […]
Here are a few selections from a terrific article about pornography entitled, The Pornographic State published in 1994. This paper was and is prescient regarding the present state of discourse regarding First Amendment and other rights in America. The article, written by two lawyers and published in the Harvard Review, describes what they call Pornotopia […]