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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: “They’ll Be Fine”—Two Takes on Indifference to Psychology
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Monday, September 29, 2014. 8220;They’ll Be Fine”—Two Takes on Indifference to Psychology. The chiding phrase “they’ll be fine” can be found abundantly on the Internet aimed, deservingly so, at the hysterically paranoid helicopter parents who hover endlessly over their children. In a different way, the phrase is also used dismissively when, say, a child must be away from the family. Consider the helicopter parents first. My derisive and acerbic emotional response to such totalitarian and tyrannical motiv...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: Defending Hate Speech and Satire against the Criminal Mind
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Monday, January 12, 2015. Defending Hate Speech and Satire against the Criminal Mind. Because the criminal suffers a far greater deficiency of self-esteem than anyone else—“I am a nothing, a zero” was a frequent confession to. 8212;and because the criminal cannot tolerate the thought of being injured or maimed . . . A not uncommon fantasy is that of a grand flourish in which the criminal shoots everyone in sight and is then killed himself. (p. 260). Posted by Jerry Kirkpatrick. View my complete profile.
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: The Whistleblowers: An Indictment of the Mixed Economy and Bureaucracy
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Monday, August 25, 2014. The Whistleblowers: An Indictment of the Mixed Economy and Bureaucracy. Socrates was an early whistleblower. He exposed many leaders of ancient Athens as hot-air know-it-alls and was executed for his efforts. Today, whistleblowers usually avoid execution, though the enemies. This is the reward they get for exposing the sleazy, dishonest practices of their superiors in the political-power-laden bureaucratic management. So they assume that the profit motive in capitalism is anathem...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: The PhD Cop
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Friday, December 12, 2014. The post below completes eight years of blogging once a month. Because I think I have a third book in me, I plan now to take a break from the regular 700-1100-word routine. Writing these posts has been fun and stimulating, but it also has become a distraction to thinking about a book. I probably will continue to write an occasional post, most likely shorter comments or follow-ups on previous remarks. Thank you for your patronage. As I have written before ( 1. On law enforcement...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: Interest and the Core Curriculum
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Tuesday, September 08, 2009. Interest and the Core Curriculum. In discussions of curriculum over the past one hundred or so years, debate has ranged from letting children choose entirely what they want to study, guided only by their interests, to forced memorization of the encyclopedia, usually called the core curriculum. “Memorizing the encyclopedia” might be a harsh characterization, but some die-hard core-curriculum advocates would not object to it. Greeks called it enkyklios paideia. Or liberal arts&...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: The Not-So-Visible Gun: Government Is Not Our Friend
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Wednesday, May 13, 2015. The Not-So-Visible Gun: Government Is Not Our Friend. A relative in years past would frequently tell his children, when coming upon a representative of law enforcement, “See that policeman? He is our friend! The militarization of police forces in recent years notwithstanding, and trigger happiness of some cops aside, the police by and large are our protectors against the bad guys. They use self-defensive force to protect us from those who initiate its use. But government per se?
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: Return of the Blackshirts?
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Monday, October 14, 2013. Return of the Blackshirts? The attire of armed paramilitary squads in Mussolini’s Italy were known as Blackshirts ( 1. Their wardrobe and behavior were later adopted by other militant fascists, especially the German Schutzstaffel (SS). These groups of young men were known for gleefully shooting innocent victims first and asking questions later. Radley Balko, in his book Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. But perhaps we have. Allegedly using c...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: On Extrinsic Motivation, Bureaucracy, and the Stage-Mother Syndrome
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Monday, May 18, 2009. On Extrinsic Motivation, Bureaucracy, and the Stage-Mother Syndrome. Carrot and stick motivation, especially the latter, as opposed to communication, persuasion, and appeals to inner values, are alive and well in today’s world. The question is, why are such extrinsic sources of motivation so common? A number of reasons can be given. The easy answer is that people tend to do what they were taught by their parents and significant others. And extrinsic, coercive methods of motivati...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: Trigger Warnings
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015. Jonathan Rauch, strong supporter of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education ( FIRE. And author of Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought. Argues sarcastically—but also seriously—that the following “trigger warning” should be put on the first page of every college catalogue. We call this education. Trigger warnings are a new form of campus censorship in which professors are supposed to give notice to students, before anything is said, about possibly offensive...
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Jerry Kirkpatrick's Blog: On Hitting Dogs and Children . . . and Prisoners of War
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Monday, January 12, 2015. On Hitting Dogs and Children . . . and Prisoners of War. The supposed aim of hitting dogs, children. And prisoners of war. POWs) is a change of behavior, which may include in the latter two the acquisition of information. To be sure, change of behavior does result—cowering, rebellion, or a combination of the two. In the twenty-first century, considering what we know today about psychology, there is no excuse for the torture of incarcerated POWs. Posted by Jerry Kirkpatrick.
