Bruce Charlton's Notions

It is a Big problem - that has been ongoing and increasing for something like 250 years - that more and more people have stopped wanting ...

Disinformation is deliberately-wrong information; and it is a far more significant problem (here-and-now) than either censorship or informa...

Find-out the two possibilities over at my Notion Club Papers blog ...

Since the emergence of Romanticism in the late 1700s, the "disenchantment" of our modern world has been a constant cultural theme...

It has become pretty obvious that the class of which I am a member - the "upper middle class", the people who work in professional...

The biggest frauds of recent decades have all involved Big Money overcoming common sense.  Enough Big Money and, it is clear, people will b...

In the old days, a King would grant a favoured vassal a legal monopoly on the provision of some sort of goods or services; but nowadays the ...

The Saruman Syndrome happens when the lust to be "a winner", or the horror of being "a loser" - causes people to switch...

By "instrumental" I mean "making use of" - so that having an instrumental attitude to somebody means "making use of...

One of the major difficulties that Christians now have* is in trying to explain clearly, simply, concisely: who Jesus was, what Jesus did - ...

The idea that what we think, believe, do; ought-to-be derived from some external authority - which is, in practice, always some institution...

Even Silly Wizard could not look stylish when posed in the family front room with seventies decor  Continuing today's musical theme with...

King of the Road, written and performed by Roger Miller, 1965 Trailer for sale or rent  Rooms to let, 50 cents  No phone, no pool, no pets. ...

Why is entropy inevitable, unavoidable in this mortal incarnate life? The answer is because, in this transitional phase between a purely-sp...

The mainstream and official modern view about death is that it is the complete annihilation of the person, after which nothing of that perso...

Similar to, but not the same as, my radio circa 1972 There was a magic to analogue technology, that is objectively absent from the digital. ...

I have read a great deal of modern pagan and/or neo-pagan writings; and have some acquaintance with such people. Indeed at one time, for sev...

The terminology of totalitarian evil takes many forms; one aim of which is to enmesh our consciousness in word-spells conducive to the evil ...

I have often wondered why - despite three decades of the internet; "global leaders" have so many in-person, face-to-face conferen...

I came across the notion that "Writing is thinking" from post-Jungian psychologist James Hillman - in the mid 1980s; and the poten...

PSYOPS are regarded as top-down mass psychological/ sociological manipulations; and they are all evil by nature; because they are not moti...