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See here: https://miclu.org/blog/fact-check-albanian-boat-arrivals Going back to Lineker’s tweet, I understood it not so much in terms of politics but psychology. He was drawing attention to the first stage of an incremental process that can and has culminated in acts of genocide. That...

Might just be worth remembering that the process that ends in genocide is not necessarily the exclusive province of either the Left or the Right. That process is described in this chilling documentary: As for those supplying the ideology that fuels the descent into tyranny, the same point...

Surely, the most obvious choice.

Haven't yet read Bloom's book (or Balzagette's) but think that his thesis may dovetail with the line that you have taken. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/06/against-empathy-paul-bloom-the-empathy-instinct-peter-bazalgette-review

Although, like yourself, I am pessimistically inclined and would tend to agree with your assessment of our emotional development when that is set in an evolutionary context, the assumption that we are an inherently self-interested species is not borne out empirically. That a viable morality can...

There's one other aspect to all this that, while it has not been entirely overlooked by the media, has not, perhaps, been delved into sufficiently, namely, Braverman's affiliation with the Buddhist Triratna movement. To date, there have been several stories published about Braverman that have...

He certainly did. That was enormously uplifting. Thanks for posting it. What that Auschwitz survivor said at the end and Arnie's point about conquering the dark side of our minds reminded me of what another survivor, the psychiatrist Viktor Frankl once said: ‘We who lived in concentration...

Unfortunately, it has left me rather pessimistic about the future of our species. In terms of evolutionary psychology, we still think tribalistically. Our responses tend to be emotive, pre-rational and are more or less instantaneous. Any rationality that is brought to the situation tends to be...

Even better than Die Welle is the movie Look Who's Back [Er ist Wieder Da] mainly because it is also a very good black comedy. One particular scene involving a dog, about 40 minutes in, is worthy of Chris Morris. The basic premise is that Hitler does not die in his bunker at the end of WW2...

One study not mentioned in the video I linked to above is also illustrative of the point that it (and Gary Lineker) was making. Former students of Ron Jones, a teacher at Cubberley high school in Northern California still describe his experiment, known as The Wave, as a milestone in their...

As far as I can tell, Lineker was cautioning us against the slippery slope that was described in Philip Zimbardo’s seminal book The Lucifer Effect and the chilling documentary Five Steps to Tyranny: The well-known brown eyed, blue eyed people class experiment shown at the beginning is...

Bought the Sunday Times print edition yesterday. Would normally stay well away from a paper like this (especially given that Henry Winter writes for it) but wanted to read the interview with Nick Cave. About an hour ago I finally took a look at the sport supplement. The headline on the...

I have a limited edition orange Kit Kat that I have been hanging on to for a few years now. Been wondering how much that might be worth.

This might be of interest: https://www.irishtimes.com/news/heaney-poem-fetches-4-800-1.868091 Maybe this too...

Don’t watch QT but this is very good (apologies if anyone has drawn attention to it previously in this thread):

For anyone who finds themselves close to Euston or King’s Cross St. Pancras station in London, Skoob books and Judd Books are both within walking distance. The former is a large and impressive secondhand bookshop and the latter sells new books at low prices. The Bloomsbury location entails that...

Just staying with the subject of Albanians for a moment, though in a manner that is tangential to this thread, thought this was good: