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Segregation vs. Integration: How Different Opinions about Social Order Impact the Design of Social Networks + Affect the Societies We Create

About 70 year ago Kurt Lewin developed a framework for understanding the motivations behind behavior called “force field analysis”: Force field analysis provides a framework for looking at the factors (forces) that influence a situation, originally social situations. It looks … Continue reading

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People are Born Free, Yet Everywhere they are in Propaganda — and how Socio-Cultural Literacy can Liberate the Masses from Mass Media Manipulation

Following the invention and spread of the printing press, there was an increase in text literacy. This happened in several waves, and in many countries text literacy is today nearly universal. Later, other media were introduced — and a new … Continue reading

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Religious Belief in Karma + Faith-Based Religions of Truth vs. Open Enlightenment + Social Mediation of Transparency: 2 Opposite Approaches to Community Management + Business Ethics

The words “right” and “wrong” are quite fundamental to our notion of justice, fairness and social order. Yet there are also 2 fundamentally different points of view about how to figure out what is right vs. what is wrong. According … Continue reading

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