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|content=6/ My point here is that our minds are programmed to recognize the “Gated Institutional Narrative” or GIN and to take our emotional instructions from it. This is Orwell’s 1984 Newspeak: Adjective-Profession-Target. | |content=6/ My point here is that our minds are programmed to recognize the [[Gated Institutional Narrative (GIN)|“Gated Institutional Narrative” or GIN]] and to take our emotional instructions from it. This is Orwell’s 1984 Newspeak: Adjective-Profession-Target. | ||
Or so asserts self-styled Internet personality @EricRWeinstein. | Or so asserts self-styled Internet personality @EricRWeinstein. | ||
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|content=8/ This brings us to one of my most controversial theories: Ever since Lindbergh’s attempt to keep the US out of WWII, our institutions have fought against us having ANY living heroes with self-minted credibility. | |content=8/ This brings us to one of my most controversial theories: Ever since [[Charles Lindbergh|Lindbergh’s]] attempt to keep the US out of WWII, our institutions have fought against us having ANY living heroes with self-minted credibility. | ||
This leaves a vacuum filled by acceptable institutional figures. | This leaves a vacuum filled by acceptable institutional figures. | ||
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|content=9/ The lesson learned from Lindbergh appears to be that Mavericks are too dangerous to institutions...and in the case of Lindbergh that made some sense. But what about a John Lennon? Frances Kelsey? Charlie Chaplin? Paul Robeson? Frank Wilkinson? Katharine Hepburn? | |content=9/ The lesson learned from [[Charles Lindbergh|Lindbergh]] appears to be that Mavericks are too dangerous to institutions...and in the case of [[Charles Lindbergh|Lindbergh]] that made some sense. But what about a John Lennon? Frances Kelsey? Charlie Chaplin? Paul Robeson? Frank Wilkinson? Katharine Hepburn? | ||
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