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    <title><![CDATA[A Lesson in Science and History by Barry Wright]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:53:44 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I. Intelligence and the Vietnam and Iraq Wars Sociology is a science and this is a topic that I have performed scientific research on since the 1970s. Why did the United States get involved in Vietnam? Well there are several reasons which are discussed... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Science and Values by Barry Wright]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 23:31:54 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In some instances scientific research does not harbor any values supporting a particular ideology. Determining the number of moons of Jupiter or the existence of planets in nearby star systems might serve as examples. However in other cases science and... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ideology and the Study: Polarizing Impact of Science Literacy and Numeracy on Perceived Climate Change Risks by Barry Wright]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 22:37:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The industrial society which makes technology and science its own is organized for the ever-more-effective domination of man and nature, for the ever-more-effective utilization of its resources. It becomes irrational when the success of these efforts... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Sociology and Survival by Barry Wright]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2022 21:40:52 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I wrote this in 1999 because I was being asked to explain the ideas behind what I was doing when I was in graduate school during the 1970s and 1980s. This is a condensed and modernized version of my PhD dissertation at the University of Chicago. I received... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Phenomenology of Health Care in the United States]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Aug 2011 17:16:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I. As I have pointed out endlessly in essays like Health Care, Race and Treachery, the United States has undoubtedly the most unsatisfactory record among any technological country in providing health care for its citizens. At times, opposition to reform... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Parasitic Oscillation from the Right]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 26 Jul 2011 17:32:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The vicissitudes of the language have their parallel in the vicissitudes of political behavior. In the sale of equipment for relaxing entertainment in bomb shelters, in the television show of competing candidates for national leadership, the juncture... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Sanity Defense]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 17:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Events that are beyond human decisions do happen; social arrangements do change without benefit of explicit decision. But in so far as such decisions are made--and in so far as they could be but are not made--the problem of who is involved in making them--or... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Tea Parties You May Have Missed]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:11:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In September 2005, roughly a week after Hurricane Katrina ripped into the Gulf Coast, a group of New Orleans police officers discovered the burned shell of a car sitting on an earthen levee overlooking the bloated Mississippi River. Inside the scorched... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Complex, Very Complex]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 04 Sep 2010 21:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It seems that Democrats in Congress are feeling a bit insecure because the voting polls are predicting Republican gains in both the Senate and House of Representatives in the November 2010 election. If the people who voted in 2008 for the Democrats would... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Iraqi Finis]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 18:42:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In Main Currents of Sociological Thought , French Sociologist Raymond Aron devotes a significant portion of Volume 1 to the observations Alexis de Tocqueville made during his visit to the United States around the center of the 19th Century. His interpretation... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Blowout Prevention]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 18:51:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[On July 17, 2010 there was an incident on Interstate 580, a major East-West corridor in the San Francisco Bay Area, with overtones of political violence. The San Francisco Bay Area is the 6th largest Metropolitan Area in the United States. A middle aged... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[American Mental Disabilities]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 13 Jul 2010 20:22:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I remember what it was like in the United States in the 1960s. There were powerful right wing forces in the political culture which in some parts of the country were supported by a large percentage of the public. These forces were partially the remnants... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Neo-Right - Neo-Nazi]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 21:28:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[First published in 1942, Franz Neumann’s Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism does more than chronicle the rise of Adolf Hitler and National Socialism to a position of controlling the most industrialized nation in Europe although... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[GLOSSARY OF CONCEPTS IN CRITICAL THEORY]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 09 Jun 2010 00:02:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I find that I receive emails from others on overblog who appear to have never read any of my essays or, if they have tried to do so, have no understanding of what I write. You are wasting your time, I don't read pandering emails, I simply delete them... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Drill Goes On II]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jun 2010 22:52:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In my previous article on this topic The Drill Goes On , dated May 21, it was not clear what the magnitude of the BP/Deep Water Horizon oil deluge in the Gulf of Mexico would turn out to be. It appears at this point that the worst case scenario that I... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Drill Goes On]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 19:26:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I really didn't want to write about this; Nuclear Weapons are still the greatest threat to life on the planet yet, given time, the petroleum addiction syndrome, may produce the same outcome. You see, if it were not for the addiction syndrome, petroleum... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[AT&amp;T: Too Big to Function]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:04:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[A great many people think they are thinking when they are actually rearranging their prejudices.- William James The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Actions that are Morally Offensive]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:58:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[In their review of cinema, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops defines some movies as “morally offensive.” The definition doesn’t necessarily imply that the movie is explicitly pornographic or violent; the term implies that the content contains material... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Dream State in American Politics]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://barrykwright.over-blog.com/article-the-dreamtstate-in-american-politics-78518869.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 18:23:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Lately many people have been second-guessing the Obama administration’s political strategy. The conventional wisdom seems to be that President Obama tried to do too much — in particular, that he should have put health care on one side and focused on the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Politics of Reality Denial]]></title>
    <link><![CDATA[https://barrykwright.over-blog.com/article-the-politically-partisan-denial-of-reality-78516481.html]]></link>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 21:33:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[If one picks almost any issue found in the contemporary political system in the United States, the motives of one component of the process either support it or oppose it because of ulterior antecedents - to say it differently by motives which they openly... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Polar Bear Story]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 17:07:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[When I first posted this on Flickr in July 2008, I said that I expected criticism for the content from right-wing elements of the American political spectrum. The picture of the Polar Bear family that I had on Flickr brought personal attacks against me.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Wars That Are Chosen]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:39:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What is this, more troops, more war, tell me, is this insanity ever going to end? The national security issues the United States faces are mainly INTERNAL. 9/11 was: an internal security screwup: we couldn’t even defend our own airspace. That’s what is... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Health Care, Race and Treachery]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:56:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[President Barack Obama is trying very hard to obtain legislation from the U.S. Congress that will address the serious shortcomings of the existing health care system in this country. We have known about these health care deficiencies for decades. They... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Living on the Edge of Madness]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:33:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Today in the prosperous warfare and welfare state, the human qualities of a pacified existence seem asocial and unpatriotic – qualities such as the refusal of all toughness, togetherness, and brutality; disobedience to the tyranny of the majority; profession... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[The Endemic Pathology of the Republican Party]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:47:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I truly begrudge having to comment once again regarding the fundamental need of the American people for a health care system that provides the basic human requirements provided by medical science and in so doing having to read again and again stories... ]]></description>
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