List: Political Travesties | Curated by Benjamin Cain

Feb 12, 2025
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Political Travesties
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Theistic Priming of OligarchyWhy theocracy is inescapable
Feb 26, 2020
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Feb 26, 2020
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Teatime History
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Benjamin Cain
What Made Napoleon the Forerunner of Modern Dictators?Megamachines and the loss of compelling propaganda for modern enterprises
Dec 12, 2023
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Dec 12, 2023
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
Are White Men Privileged Because They Aim to be Sociopathic?Double standards and the trouble with secular humanism
Mar 15, 2023
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Mar 15, 2023
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
What Does It Mean To “Speak Politically”?Politics as the dubious craft of selling things that don’t sell themselves
Feb 23, 2023
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Feb 23, 2023
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The Repugnance of Politico-SpeakWhy talking points and the meme of inappropriateness are betrayals of humanity
Feb 9, 2020
Feb 9, 2020
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
“Public Relations” as an Elite PsyOp Targeting Human HerdsEdward Bernays, Orwellian doubletalk, and the PR industry
Oct 2, 2023
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Oct 2, 2023
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
The Mystery of Why Journalists Still Interview PoliticiansAnd the strange public demand to be fed a pack of lies
Aug 2, 2023
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Aug 2, 2023
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
The Orwellian Ruse of the Political ApologyMistakes, impropriety, and the minimization of vice
Jan 3, 2021
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Jan 3, 2021
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
The Bizarre Journalistic Pretense that All Oligarchs are RussianHow the mainstream media propagates disinformation by setting the Overton window
May 21, 2022
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May 21, 2022
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
The American Myth of the “Undecided Voter”How the corporate news media devise fake conflicts to attract audiences to infotainment
Oct 22, 2024
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Oct 22, 2024
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An Injustice!
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The Farce of Fact-Checking a HyperrealityCNN’s smug pretentions, and Trump’s Nietzschean ambition
Oct 23, 2024
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Oct 23, 2024
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Bureaucrat Meets PhilosopherA philosophical dialogue about the bureaucrat mindset
Feb 22, 2020
Feb 22, 2020
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An Idea (by Ingenious Piece)
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Benjamin Cain
The Curse of Bureaucratic Myopia at Kindle Direct PublishingAnd how a catch-22 might be a tragic blessing in disguise
Oct 26, 2021
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Oct 26, 2021
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
The Kafkaesque Blindness of Amazon’s Content Review TeamA report on my second battle with this bureaucracy
Apr 7, 2022
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Apr 7, 2022
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A Blockheaded Bureaucracy’s Futile MischiefThe gauntlet of self-publishing anthologies of web content on Amazon Kindle Direct Publishing
Nov 3, 2024
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Nov 3, 2024
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DataDrivenInvestor
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Benjamin Cain
Politician meets PhilosopherA dialogue about philosophical versus political ways of speaking
Apr 28, 2020
Apr 28, 2020
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
Why Winners are Cynical and Losers are Full of IdeologiesA lesson we should learn from the slipping of Tucker Carlson’s mask
May 2, 2023
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May 2, 2023
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Dialogue & Discourse
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Benjamin Cain
American Paranoia and the Modern Legacy of NihilismThe secret weariness of progressives and Trumpian conservatives.
Mar 18, 2021
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Mar 18, 2021
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Grim Tidings
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Benjamin Cain
Are Our Best Practices Evolved or Centrally Planned?A conflict of aphorisms
Mar 9, 2022
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Mar 9, 2022
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An Injustice!
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Benjamin Cain
America’s Odd History of Close ElectionsThe media’s role in sustaining the tight race between Harris and Trump
Oct 9, 2024
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Oct 9, 2024
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