Jonah Bennett   Verified account

@BennettJonah

IR grad student. Hobby: Editor-in-Chief, . Liberalism, new ideas. Independent/pragmatist. Deep anthropologist. Pitches: jonah@palladiummag.com

Joined April 2014

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    There are so many competing ideologies showing you a constant stream of the worst news and the most degraded content. Yes, it exists. It's easy to dwell on how bad things can be, but it's important to let go of things that put you in a hating mindset. Focus on good social fabric.

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  2. PhD holders or aspiring holders: If you didn't want to teach in North America, where would you rather teach?

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  3. Feb 1

    Seems obviously right, and yet their mistakes serve a different role also—they don't often believe their act upends society, they believe their archetype acting upends society. Stand Alone Complexes. Individual persuasion doesn't work: the SA Complex illusion must be defused.

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  4. Jan 31

    We tracked more than $174 million in foreign funding going to the nation's top think tanks in our new report "Foreign Funding of Think Tanks in America." It's a must read for understanding this seldom discussed avenue of foreign influence

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  5. Jan 31

    I'm training to be a counselor for Crisis Textline (CTL), an asynchronous resource for cooling people down from hot moments. Already, I've learned a lot. CW suicide etc. Thread:

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  6. Procedural fakery will always fool at least some people, so it's strictly better at least short-term than admitting to naked power games.

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  7. "No, actually yea you're right this decision is entirely arbitrary and motivated, you got us, we admit it"

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  8. There's always a procedural pretext for everything, even if it's "administrative review."

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  9. Jan 30

    This piece was excellent. I wonder if social technologists will be the Hot New Thing To Fun ROI: a new chance at the world

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  10. Jan 31

    Spanish magazine El Cuaderno just published a translation of our piece The Universal Ambitions of China’s Illiberal Confucian Scholars.

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  11. To even get to that point, you have to no longer be hanging out with more normal social circles. This leads to a super closed off epistemic environment that encourages paranoia and apocalyptic thinking and the idea that everyone is just waiting to snap. This is projection.

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  12. A delusion political terrorists often suffer from is that their act of violence will be the one to upend society and cause a cascade of further violence and change. But society, especially American society, is robust. Life goes on. The rest of America isn't wound up so tight.

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  13. Jan 30

    I somehow didn't know that fully 80 PERCENT of American workers get zero time off to welcome a newborn. The hell?

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  14. NEW: The arrested Harvard prof is tip of the iceberg. When the Texas A&M system investigated how much Chinese money its faculty was getting, officials were astounded—over 100 were involved in Chinese talent recruitment plans. Only 5 disclosed.

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  15. Assessed morality as a function of good beliefs vs. a function of good treatment of others. Both functions seem to output extremely different results, and there isn't as much overlap as you might think.

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  16. Good addendum to my thread on debate by noting the multiscale aspect.

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  17. Jan 30

    Xinjiang is a perfectly pleasant holiday destination. It’s a good place. The posters will tell you so. A Week in Xinjiang’s Absolute Surveillance State

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  18. I think there are ways to engineer debate in a better direction with regard to knowledge production, but it mostly seems like an entertainment circus, which is fine for what it is, I guess.

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  19. I remember 'doing debate' and experiencing the very strong phenomenology of not wanting to admit wrongness. This is exactly the reason why I dropped it. You're just not going to get anywhere pushing against the grain of social games like that.

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  20. Given this frame, it's very easy to sort people who are interested in knowledge production and people who are interested in...something else.

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  21. I don't do 'debates,' I do coffee hours where we pool collective knowledge together to try and make genuine progress on at least understanding some given issue. Or at the very least mutual recognition.

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