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Writing is the attempt at perfect communication. That’s the definition I have come up with, and of course it always fails–no good perfectionist (who tend to be the ones that try it) will ever totally approve of anyone else’s combination of words. But written communication seems to be our best–arguably, only–hope.  Language itself is a [...]

Following up on Logic… Not only is elementary propaganda as effective as ever on our population, we’re backsliding on our collective ability to weigh the relative merits of information.  Gossip, like other pathogens, thrives on human populations.  We all remember from elementary school how messages get twisted in a round of Gossip, the game; we’d [...]