My manuscript, The Discovery of Freedom, needs significant re-work to incorporate the social psychology of dystopias.
This is placeholder post but there’s a lot of info out there that I’ve come across which will inform the update. Basically group psychology needs to be studied at great length if we are to create a genuinely free society.
Things that will inform this study include:
Milgrom experiment
Christopher Browning’s Ordinary Men
Asch conformity experiments
Mackay’s Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Many wonderful videos at: The Academy of Ideas
But there’s of course a lot more. Either way, without understanding human nature we will always fail to build a genuinely free society.
John Law and the Mississippi Bubble
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Bitcoin buoyancy is driven by popular mass delusion but the madness will keep making money
Josh Williams is managing director of The Draft
Bitcoin buoyancy is driven by popular mass delusion but the madness will keep making money, writes Josh Williams. (Photo illustration by Mark Case/Getty Images)
In 1841, the journalist Charles Mackay published
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, his masterpiece. In it, he chronicled the economic bubbles and mass delusions that have plagued mankind across the ages. “Men… go mad in herds,” he warned, “while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.”
The cryptocurrency Bitcoin is a mania worthy of Mackay. Nearly valueless just a decade ago, its price reached an all-time high of over £47,000 in April this year. While the price has now dropped to little more than half that, don’t be fooled. Much of the herd is still mad, and Bitcoin could remain irrationally valuable for a long w
Rabbi Sacks zt’’l prepared a full year of
Covenant & Conversation for 5781, based on his book
Lessons in Leadership. The Office of Rabbi Sacks will carry on distributing these essays each week, so people around the world can continue to learn and be inspired by his Torah.
The book of Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why this book is known in English as
Numbers. This raises a number of questions: what is the significance of this act of counting? And why here at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the people and this is the third within the space of a single year. Surely one would have been sufficient. Additionally, does counting have anything to do with leadership?
The book of
Bamidbar begins with a census of the Israelites. That is why this book is known in English as Numbers. This raises a number of questions: what is the significance of this act of counting? And why here at the beginning of the book? Besides which, there have already been two previous censuses of the people and this is the third within the space of a single year. Surely one would have been sufficient. Additionally, does counting have anything to do with leadership?
The place to begin is to note what appears to be a contradiction. On the one hand, Rashi says that the acts of counting in the Torah are gestures of love on the part of G-d:
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