[Another forgotten post from the draft folder from Sep 2010]
This was an insight that Howard Bloom’s Conformity Enforcers and Stephen Pressfield’s concept of The Resistance are linked, or at least serve the same ends.
Post Category → History
David Sloan Wilson and Howard Bloom on cults
[Continuing the series where I post the backlog from my drafts folder. This one is from June 2009 ]
David Sloan Wilson & Howard Bloom both argue cults can be good including Scientology.
“A religion that makes Hollywood starts sober up and send thank you notes cannot be all that bad”
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom
David Sloan Wilson (Darwin’s Cathedral) – http://www.skeptic.com/eskeptic/07-07-04.html
Anacyclosis and OODA Loops
[Continuing on the purge of my drafts folder, here are the notes for another post whose point and purpose are long forgotten, from June 2009]
# Monarchy – tribal rule based on brute force
# Kingship – virtuous rule by one man
# Tyranny – wicked rule by one man
# Aristocracy – virtuous rule by a few men
# Oligarchy – wicked rule by a few men
# Democracy – virtuous rule by the many
# Ochlocracy – wicked rule by the many (mob rule)
via The Ring of Truth « The Committee of Public Safety.
[Sadly this blog is also now gone, but there is an archive at archive.org]