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The Greatest Trick of All The Corbett Report by James Corbett corbettreport.com April 24, 2022 Magic is the ability to make someone believe something that isn't true. It follows, then, that most great magicians are keen observers of human psychology and that magic routines are, at base, a skillfully arranged set of techniques for preying on our  cognitive biases . As impressive as the rabbit-from-hat illusions and the sleight-of-hand deceptions of the masters of stagecraft can be, however, these parlor tricks pale in comparison to the societal manipulations that are conducted by the masters of  state craft every day. Case in point: martial law. I have long said that when martial law actually comes to the "free and democratic" West, people will be cheering it on. In case you didn't believe me, I present the phenomenon of the public cheering on the most egregious abuses of  medical  martial law over the past two years as evidence for my contention. All it took was a co...

The racket of education and the myth of expertise The managerial aristocracy and you laughlyn (johan eddebo) A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyse a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects (Robert Heinlein,  Time Enough for Love , 1973). So I’m an expert. I’m in the “top of my field”, which means that I know a good bit of assorted stuff concerning my academic specialty, and that I can solve new problems relating to the the discipline better than most. (Yes, it also means I’m a little batty.) And I guarantee that you’ll be quite hard pressed to find one single ten-year old kid who can’t put me on the spot with a couple of clever questions. Questions which at least would ...