READ/FIND - ELLIOT WHITE - THE BALKANIZED GLOBAL VILLAGE: A PSYCHOGENETIC PERSPECTIVE, IN RESEARCH IN BIOPOLITICS V. 5

RESEARCH IN BIOPOLITICS 2 - J.C. DAVIES - INNATE ROOTS OF REVOLUTION

P. 192 - it is a psychological truism that perception is functionally selective: that people see things which are relevant to what they want. it is perhaps equally as true that people remember things that are relevant to basic desirves, without themselves being aware of the link between memory and desire. one of these desires is to maintain a good image of oneself in one's own mind: that is, to maintain one's dignity. this requires the suppression and repression of a wide variety of stimuli that do not fit one's preconceptions of self

p 194 - biological research on power has perhaps most often dealt with interaction in which one part to an interaction is more powerful than the other: power in the observed interaction is assymetrical. organic correlates of this asymmetry appear in two major kinds of hormones: steroids (mainly testosterone, estrogen, and cortisol) and catecholamines, including dopamine, norepinephrine (noradrenalin), and epinephrine (adrenalie)

males tend to be more seertive than females and to have higher testosterone levels. relatively high catecholamine levels tend to be associated with stress and threat: if an organism is threatened, its norepinephrine and epinephrine levels tend to rise and to produce aggresive or defensive action against the threat. after the threat is passed, catecholamine levels tend to fall. individuals in whom steroid and catecholamine levels are chronically higher tend to be dominant

195 - the thesis that dignity and power are innately rooted drives....environmental factors have hormonal consequences: the establishment of hierarchy changes thelevelsof this hormone


196 - research in changes in behavior...do suggest that an innate inferiority in strength, assertiveness, and aggresiveness, and also lower hormone levels are associated with these attributes. that is, the defeated animals did not welcome defeat but accepted it because they could do no better. their subordination appears to be a secondary product, a derivation not of an innate desire to be subordinate but of innate inability to be dominant.

197 - cortisol (hydrocortisone_ levels tend to be higher in subordinate than in dominant male vervet monkeys (mcguire, 1982). and the level of seratonin...tends to be higher among dominant individuals (both vervet monekys and humans) than among subordinates. when an individual loses dominance, his serotonin level goes down (McGuire, 1982; Madsen, 1985). once an animal has established or at least accepted its power position, threats are likely to dominish, from both the winner and the loser in the struggle for food or sex or whatever is the object of conflict

we prime primates are born with brains that have the enormous potential to process information and make decisions. we are blessed and cursed with an extraordinary desire to understand - and necessarily to form complex (198)abstractions in the process

201 - however, once survival has become relatively assured and face-to-face groups have been re-formed out of the chaotic struggle of each against all, violence does not necessarily cease: it may even intensify, because with the establishment of physical security and of group solidarity, people are nw free to pursue together and politically the satisfaction of their individually felt and now socially supported metasurvival needs, including the needs for dignity and power. interindividual violence may be replaced by intergroup and international violence

202 - physical deprivation was among the causes of these uprisings, but black people in america were surviving better when they did rebel in 1965 than in they were in 1965, when they don't. the most active Arab rebels in the 1988 intefadeh were better off than their parents

what is noteworthy about these recent and current uprisings is that they have been instigated by people who rebelled not just in order to eat but also in order to gain increased dignity and a larger share of power than they had experienced previously. it is not that they had hitherto enjoyed substantial amounts of deference and power but that they had hitherto been so intently, so totally preoccupied with staying alive and well, that they could not concern themselves with anything else

pg 185 Philip K. Dick's A Scanner Darkly

"within something's very eyes within the sight of some thing. which, unlike little dark-eyed Donna, does not ever blink. what does a scanner see? he asked himself. I mean, really see? Into the head? Down into the heart? does a passive infrared scanner like they used to use or a cube-type holo-scanner like they use these days, the latest thing, see into me - into us - clearly or darkly? I hope it does, he thought, see clearly, because I can't any longer these days see into myself. I see only murk. Murk outside; murk inside. I hope, for everyone's sake, the scanners do better. because, he thought, if the scanner sees only darkly, the way I myself do, then we are cursed, cursed again and like we have been continually, and we'll wind up dead this way, knowing very little and getting that little fragment wrong to"

The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design.

F.A. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit

pg 196 2000 version of Gibson's Neuromancer:

"Power, in Case's world, meant corporate power. the zaibatsus, the multinationals that shaped the course of human history, had transcended old barriers. viewed as organisms, they had attained a kind of immortality. you couldn't kill a zaibatsu by assassinating a dozen key executives; there were others waiting to step up the ladder, assume the vacated position, access the vast banks of corporate memory. but Tessier-Ashpool wasn't like that, and he sensed the difference in the death of its founder. T-A was an atavism, a clan. he remembered the litter of the old man's chamber, the soiled humanity of it, the ragged spines of the old audio disks in their paper sleeves. one foot bare, the other in a velvet slipper"

"wintermute and the nest. phobic visions of the hatching wasps, time-lapse machine gune of biology. but weren't the zaibatsus more like that, or the Yakuza, hives with cybernetic memory, vast single organisms, their DNA coded in silicon?"

"Case had always taken it for granted that the real bosses, the kingpins in a given industry, would be both more and less than people. he'd seen it in the men who'd crippled him in Memphis, he'd seen Wage affect the semblance of it in Night City, and it had allowed him to accept Armitage's flatness and lack of feeling. he'd always imagined it as a gradual and willing accomodation of the machine, the system, the parent organism. it was the root of street cool, too, the knowing posture that implied connection, invisible lines up to hidden levels of influence."

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZDNmZWFhN2ZjYTg3NzRhZjg3ZThkYjhjYmQ1MzRiMTI=
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/preston200510050823.asp
http://www.reason.com/news/show/32972.html
http://www.reason.com/news/show/28899.html
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=NDM2ZGUxOGZhMjdkMWZmNjAzYWZlNDQ5MmRjZDIwMGU=
http://www.whedon.info/Serenity-on-Nationalreview-com.html
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“The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out
of other people’s money.”

—Margaret Thatcher

"It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies," wrote C.S. Lewis, a man who knew a thing or two about religion. "The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated, but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."

pg 20/21 - Candide: "one day Cunegonde was waling near the house in a little coppice, called 'the park,' when she saw Dr. Pangloss behind some bushes giving a lesson in experimental physics to her mother's waiting-woman, a pretty little brunette who seemed eminently teachable. Since Lady Cunegonde took a great interest in science, she watched the experiments being repeated with breatheless fascination. she saw clearly the Doctor's 'sufficient reason,' and took note of cause and effect. then, in a disturbed and thoughtful state of mind, she returned home full of desire for loearning, and fancied that she could reason equally well with young Candide and he with her"

https://faculty.washington.edu/modelski/index.html - Evolutionary World Politics
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/ess/ess.htm - European Sociobiological Society
http://www.adamsmith.org/ - Adam Smith Institute
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/ - Adam Smith Institute blog
http://www.independent.org/ - Independent Institute
http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/ - World Affairs Journal
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/ - Foreign Policy
http://agenda.nationalreview.com/ - Salam's The Agenda
http://www.irtheory.com/know.htm - IR Theory
http://www.evolutionary-philosophy.net/library.html - Evolutionary Philosophy
http://www.toddseavey.com/ - todd seavey
http://www.tvo.org/TVOsites/WebObjects/TvoMicrosite.woa?bigideas - TVO's big ideas
http://www.frontporchrepublic.com/ - front porch republic
http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/ - league of ordinary gentlemen
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/ - standpoint
http://www.hoover.org/multimedia/uk - uncommon knowledge
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/author/danielhannan/ - dan hannan
http://www.econtalk.org/ - econtalk
http://www.pointofinquiry.org/ - point of inquiry
http://www2.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/national/andrew-coynes-blog/ - coyne
http://www2.macleans.ca/category/blog-central/national/inkless-wells/ - wells
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/blogs/andrew-steele/ - andrew steele
http://www.cato.org/podcasts/ - CATO podcasts
http://reason.tv/podcast - Reason podcasts
http://app2.capitalreach.com/esp1204/servlet/tc?cn=aei&c=10162&s=20271&e=5115&&du=/a/aei/feed.jsp&fn=un - AEI podcasts
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/ess/books1.htm - MASSIVE AWESOME BOOK LIST

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rmasters/ - masters
http://dss.missouristate.edu/bthayer.htm - thayer
http://www.niu.edu/polisci/faculty/profiles.shtml#arnhart - arnhart
http://www.personal.psu.edu/sap12/home/ - steven peterson
http://rint.rechten.rug.nl/rth/dennen/dennen.htm - van der dennen
albert somit
vincent falger
robert h. blank
samuel m. hines
http://www.complexsystems.org/bio.html - peter corning
http://www.findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/researcher/person140813.html - ralph pettman
elliot white

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