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Tag: Psychology

Ben’s Interview on Radio CKUT 90.3 FM

September 10, 2011October 1, 2011 Ben Harack 4 Comments

Ben Harack was interviewed on the Ecolibrium radio show on CKUT in Montreal. Topics were Moving Planet, Saskatchewan’s sustainability, and peer-based cross-disciplinary efforts towards sustainability.

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Politics in the 11th hour: The Canadian Cons

May 1, 2011May 27, 2012 Ben Harack Leave a comment

The Conservative Party has deliberately lied to the Canadian populace about several of the major issues that they have focused on during this election season. The intent of this piece is to describe why we have very good reason to believe this.

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Capitalism’s Labour Transitions – An Argument for Social Welfare

March 7, 2011April 18, 2019 Ben Harack 2 Comments

Capitalist labour transitions are a heavy burden on the working class and society in general, but they are also one of the cornerstones of progress. We can solve this problem in an economically practical as well as morally and socially desirable through the creation of a strong social welfare system.

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How trolls and extremists are damaging our public discourse

December 5, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 3 Comments

Trolls and extremists contaminate our public discourse with falsehoods, logical fallacies, irrational argument, poisoning the well, false expertise, and the creation of de-facto knowledge. Individuals must learn to resist the onslaught of ideas driven by these sections of society.

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Lindsey Simpson of TEDxMcGill on volunteerism and planning major events

November 17, 2010February 23, 2016 Ben Harack 1 Comment

Lindsey Simpson, one of the organizers of TEDxMcGill, talks in this interview about why she likes to volunteer and work hard to plan such big events. TEDxMcGill is an externally organized TED event in the city of Montreal, Canada on November 20th, 2010.

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Lifestyle brands: Selling people a constructed dream

November 13, 2010February 23, 2016 Kyle Laskowski 6 Comments

Lifestyle brands are designed to create the impression that their product is part of a way of life that is desirable. They do this through connection to people’s employment, ethnicity, religion, class, region, etc. Lifestyle brands are artificially created value design to allow inferior or average products masquerade as superior ones.

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How can you deliberately change your society?

October 30, 2010June 1, 2017 Ben Harack 7 Comments

How do people try to chance society? Why do these methods work? How can they be resisted? Progressive and regressive change can depend on many of the same basic techniques.

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