Libertarians talk Psychology Posts

Has our government’s reaction to the recent bank failures created a precedent that will ruin our savings for years into the future as Peter Schiff predicts? Has United States irresponsible war and financial policies created voids that China will fill?…

Julie discusses three levels of observations of individual and group dynamics stemming from the House committee on judiciary hearing. She points out the dysfunctional communications, problems with group level problem-solving and insight, and concerns…

Bill Maher and comedian Dan Boulger mention some past and present acceptance of creepy behaviors by our society. It seems like some of these things in the past were excusable, but today we just resist facing the truth. Is this only because we are…

Julie draws the connection between John Gottman’s four horsemen of the apocalypse–how they predict divorce–and today’s political decision-making. We talk about decisions that are compromise versus those that are consensus, outlining and describing…

Without having to point fingers, it is clear that the approach to the Covid crisis resulted in excess damage to many innocent people. Bill O’Reilly, detailed some of the financial fallout, and Dave Smith mentioned some unnecessary health and safety…

Bill Maher points out that San Francisco needs to pay $1.7 million for an outdoor toilet. Julie discusses this phenomena of living systems where bureaucracy feeds itself rather than meets its work goals with efficiency and effectiveness. Mike draws…

Ron Paul has done a good job of exposing some chronic flawed practices in our country. But it helps to keep this problem in perspective by searching through the Index of Economic Freedom for countries that are somewhat better than the United States….

(This is a rebroadcast of episode 57)

The idea of defunding the police seems crazy! It seems especially crazy when we realize politicians simply intend to use the funding for more useless social programs.

However private security forces already are…

Julie and Mike discuss the Veritas Project news and Tucker Carlson’s review. We look at the interaction between freedom of information and suppression of information as an evolutionary battle between individuals’ selfish instinct and detection…

For some time now, it seems that both liberals and conservatives are split between their elites and individuals. Maybe the true divisions between groups are changing. For example, Bill O’Reilly sounded more like an elite than he did a conservative…