Rudolf Steiner on “spiritual vaccination” (1917)

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“Just don’t fool yourself. One stands before a quite certain movement. Just as the spirit was abolished at that Council in Constantinople, that is, as it was dogmatically determined: Man consists only of body and soul, to speak of a spirit is heretical -, so one will strive in another form to abolish the soul, the life of the soul. And the time will come, perhaps not at all in the distant future, when at such a congress as the one that took place in 1912, something quite different will develop, when quite different tendencies will appear, when one will say: It is already morbid in man, if he even thinks about spirit and soul. Only those people are healthy who only talk about the body. – It will be regarded as a symptom of illness if man develops in such a way that he can come to the concept: There is a spirit or a soul. – These will be sick people. And one will find – you can be quite sure – the corresponding remedy through which one will work. At that time one abolished the spirit. The soul will be abolished by a medicine. Out of a “healthy view” one will find a vaccine by which the organism will be worked on in such a way in the earliest possible youth, if possible right at birth, that this human body will not come to the thought: There is a soul and a spirit. – This is how sharply the two world-view currents will confront each other. The one will have to think about how concepts and ideas are to be formed so that they can cope with the real reality, the reality of the spirit and the soul. The other, the successors of today’s materialists, will look for the vaccine that will make the body “healthy”, that is, make it so that this body, through its constitution, no longer talks of such silly things as soul and spirit, but talks “healthy” of the forces that live in machines and chemistry, that constitute planets and suns in the nebula of the world. This will be brought about by physical procedures. The materialistic physicians will be given the task of expelling the souls from mankind. Yes, those who believe that one can see into the future with playful concepts, they are very much mistaken. With serious, thorough, deep concepts one must look into the future. Spiritual science is not a gimmick, is not merely a theory, but spiritual science is a real duty towards the development of mankind.”

~RUDOLF STEINER (Collected Works; page 97-98)

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Wicked problems: The “halting problem” in the social domain

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In planning and policy, a wicked problem is a problem that is difficult or impossible to solve because of incomplete, contradictory, and changing requirements that are often difficult to recognize. It refers to an idea or problem that cannot be fixed, where there is no single solution to the problem; and “wicked” denotes resistance to resolution, rather than evil. Another definition is “a problem whose social complexity means that it has no determinable stopping point”.Moreover, because of complex interdependencies, the effort to solve one aspect of a wicked problem may reveal or create other problems. Due to their complexity, wicked problems are often characterized by organized irresponsibility.

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Grewatsch, S., Kennedy, S., & Bansal, P.. (2021). Tackling wicked problems in strategic management with systems thinking. Strategic Organization

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1177/14761270211038635
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Alford, J., & Head, B. W.. (2017). Wicked and less wicked problems: A typology and a contingency framework. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2017.1361634
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Schiefloe, P. M.. (2021). The Corona crisis: a wicked problem. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1177/1403494820970767
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Termeer, C. J. A. M., Dewulf, A., & Biesbroek, R.. (2019). A critical assessment of the wicked problem concept: relevance and usefulness for policy science and practice. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2019.1617971
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Hoffman, J., Pelzer, P., Albert, L., Béneker, T., Hajer, M., & Mangnus, A.. (2021). A futuring approach to teaching wicked problems. Journal of Geography in Higher Education

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/03098265.2020.1869923
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Walls, H. L.. (2018). Wicked problems and a “wicked” solution. Globalization and Health

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1186/s12992-018-0353-x
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Peters, B. G., & Tarpey, M.. (2019). Are wicked problems really so wicked? Perceptions of policy problems. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2019.1626595
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Peters, B. G.. (2017). What is so wicked about wicked problems? A conceptual analysis and a research program. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2017.1361633
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King, R.. (2021). On Europe, Immigration and Inequality: Brexit as a ‘Wicked Problem’. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/15562948.2020.1821275
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Dentoni, D., Bitzer, V., & Schouten, G.. (2018). Harnessing Wicked Problems in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships. Journal of Business Ethics

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1007/s10551-018-3858-6
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Niskanen, V. P., Rask, M., & Raisio, H.. (2021). Wicked Problems in Africa: A Systematic Literature Review. SAGE Open

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1177/21582440211032163
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Turnbull, N., & Hoppe, R.. (2019). Problematizing ‘wickedness’: a critique of the wicked problems concept, from philosophy to practice. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2018.1488796
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Head, B. W.. (2019). Forty years of wicked problems literature: forging closer links to policy studies. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2018.1488797
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Termeer, C. J. A. M., & Dewulf, A.. (2019). A small wins framework to overcome the evaluation paradox of governing wicked problems. Policy and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/14494035.2018.1497933
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Head, B. W., & Alford, J.. (2015). Wicked Problems: Implications for Public Policy and Management. Administration and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1177/0095399713481601
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Thollander, P., Palm, J., & Hedbrant, J.. (2019). Energy efficiency as a wicked problem. Sustainability (Switzerland)

Plain numerical DOI: 10.3390/su11061569
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Sediri, S., Trommetter, M., Frascaria-Lacoste, N., & Fernandez-Manjarrés, J.. (2020). Transformability as a wicked problem: A cautionary tale?. Sustainability (Switzerland)

Plain numerical DOI: 10.3390/SU12155895
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Frey-Heger, C., Gatzweiler, M. K., & Hinings, C. R.. (2021). No End In Sight: How regimes form barriers to addressing the wicked problem of displacement. Organization Studies

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1177/01708406211044869
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Mason, T. H. E., Pollard, C. R. J., Chimalakonda, D., Guerrero, A. M., Kerr-Smith, C., Milheiras, S. A. G., … Bunnefeld, N.. (2018). Wicked conflict: Using wicked problem thinking for holistic management of conservation conflict. Conservation Letters

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1111/conl.12460
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Daviter, F.. (2017). Coping, taming or solving: alternative approaches to the governance of wicked problems. Policy Studies

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/01442872.2017.1384543
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Crosby, A., Dunn, J. L., Aditjondro, E., & Rachfiansyah. (2019). Tobacco Control Is a Wicked Problem: Situating Design Responses in Yogyakarta and Banjarmasin. She Ji

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1016/j.sheji.2019.09.001
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Smith, K. J.. (2022). Wicked Problems in Pharmacy Education. American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education

Plain numerical DOI: 10.5688/ajpe8491
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Zhang, J., & Kim, Y.. (2016). Digital government and wicked problems: Solution or problem?. Information Polity

Plain numerical DOI: 10.3233/IP-160395
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Jentoft, S., & Chuenpagdee, R.. (2009). Fisheries and coastal governance as a wicked problem. Marine Policy

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1016/j.marpol.2008.12.002
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Big lies: A propaganda device par excellence

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The American Psychological Society (APS) defines a “big lie” as “a propaganda device in which a false statement of extreme magnitude is constantly repeated to persuade the public. The assumption is that a Big Lie is less likely to be challenged than a lesser one because people will assume that evidence exists to support a statement of such magnitude.”

According to Wikipedia, a big lie (German: große Lüge) is a gross distortion or misrepresentation of the truth, used especially as a propaganda technique.[1][2] The German expression was coined by Adolf Hitler, when he dictated his book Mein Kampf (1925), to describe the use of a lie so colossal that no one would believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously.” Hitler claimed that the technique had been used by Jews to blame Germany’s loss in World War I on German general Erich Ludendorff, who was a prominent nationalist political leader in the Weimar Republic.
According to historian Jeffrey Herf, the Nazis used the idea of the original big lie to turn sentiment against Jews and justify the Holocaust. Herf maintains that Joseph Goebbels and the Nazi Party actually used the big lie technique that they described – and that they used it to turn long-standing antisemitism in Europe into mass murder. Herf further argues that the Nazis’ big lie was their depiction of Germany as an innocent, besieged land striking back at “international Jewry”, which the Nazis blamed for starting World War I. Nazi propaganda repeatedly claimed that Jews held power behind the scenes in Britain, Russia, and the United States. It further spread claims that the Jews had begun a war of extermination against Germany, and used these to assert that Germany had a right to annihilate the Jews in self-defense.

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DiMaggio, A. R.. (2022). Conspiracy Theories and the Manufacture of Dissent: QAnon, the ‘Big Lie’, Covid-19, and the Rise of Rightwing Propaganda. Critical Sociology

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Geraldes, D., Heinicke, F., & Kim, D. G.. (2021). Big and small lies. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1016/j.socec.2021.101666
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Obar, J. A., & Oeldorf-Hirsch, A.. (2020). The biggest lie on the Internet: ignoring the privacy policies and terms of service policies of social networking services. Information Communication and Society

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2018.1486870
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Jacobson, G. C.. (2021). Donald Trump’s Big Lie and the Future of the Republican Party. Presidential Studies Quarterly

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1111/psq.12716
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Whitehead, M. A., Foste, Z., Duran, A., Tevis, T., & Cabrera, N. L.. (2021). Commentary disrupting the big lie: Higher education and whitelash in a post/colorblind era. Education Sciences

Plain numerical DOI: 10.3390/educsci11090486
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Martin, R. L.. (2014). The big lie of strategic planning. Harvard Business Review

Plain numerical DOI: 10.2469/dig.v44.n4.7
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Heleta, S.. (2018). Decolonizing Knowledge in South Africa: Dismantling the ‘pedagogy of big lies’. Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies

Plain numerical DOI: 10.5070/f7402040942
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Canon, D. T., & Sherman, O.. (2021). Debunking the “Big Lie”: Election Administration in the 2020 Presidential Election. Presidential Studies Quarterly

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1111/psq.12721
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McVeigh, M.. (2020). Telling big little lies: Writing the female gothic as extended metaphor in complex television. Journal of Screenwriting

Plain numerical DOI: 10.1386/josc_00013_1
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Zenko, M.. (2016). The Big Lie About the Libyan War. Foreign Policy
Obar, J. A.. (2016). The Biggest Lie on the Internet: Ignoring the Privacy Policies and Terms of Service Policies of Social Networking Services. SSRN Electronic Journal

Plain numerical DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2757465
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Katz, E.. (1992). The big lie: Human restoration of nature. Techne: Research in Philosophy and Technology
Becker, J.. (2004). The big lie. Index on Censorship

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Dr. John Coleman: The committee of 300

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Hegelian dialectic and social/attitudinal polarisation

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Divide et Impera – Divide and rule

Polarization, in many disciplines, is a tendency to be located close to one of the opposite ends of a continuum.

  • Polarization (economics), faster decrease of moderate-skill jobs relative to low-skill and high-skill jobs
  • Political polarization, when public opinion divides and becomes oppositional
  • Social polarization, segregation of society into social groups, from high-income to low-income
  • Group polarization, tendency of a group to make more extreme decisions than individuals’ initial inclinations
  • Attitude polarization, when disagreement becomes more extreme as different parties consider evidence
  • Racial polarization, when a population with varying ancestry is divided into distinct racial groups

Hegelian dialectic, usually presented in a threefold manner, was stated by Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus as comprising three dialectical stages of development: a thesis, giving rise to its reaction; an antithesis, which contradicts or negates the thesis; and the tension between the two being resolved by means of a synthesis. Although this model is often named after Hegel, he never used that specific formulation. Hegel ascribed that terminology to Kant. Carrying on Kant’s work, Fichte greatly elaborated on the synthesis model and popularized it.

See also: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel § Dialectics, speculation, idealism

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Eibach, R.. (2021). Ideological Polarization and Social Psychology. In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Psychology

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Willer, D., Turner, J. C., Hogg, M. A., Oakes, P. J., Reicher, S. D., & Wetherell, M. S.. (1989). Rediscovering the Social Group: A Self-Categorization Theory.. Contemporary Sociology

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Van Bavel, J. J., Rathje, S., Harris, E., Robertson, C., & Sternisko, A.. (2021). How social media shapes polarization. Trends in Cognitive Sciences

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Simas, E. N., Clifford, S., & Kirkland, J. H.. (2020). How Empathic Concern Fuels Political Polarization. American Political Science Review

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Valdesolo, P., & Graham, J.. (2016). Social Psychology of Political Polarization. Social Psychology of Political Polarization

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Lees, J., & Cikara, M.. (2021). Understanding and combating misperceived polarization. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

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Roblain, A., & Green, E. G. T.. (2021). From perceived polarization of immigration attitudes to collective action. International Journal of Intercultural Relations

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Levendusky, M. S.. (2018). When efforts to depolarize the electorate fail. Public Opinion Quarterly

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Brady, W. J., Wills, J. A., Jost, J. T., Tucker, J. A., Van Bavel, J. J., & Fiske, S. T.. (2017). Emotion shapes the diffusion of moralized content in social networks. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

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Gremmen, B.. (2021). Dialectical Methodology of the Praxis of Biology. Foundations of Science

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Etim, F., & Akpabio, M. K.-A.. (2018). Hegelian Dialectics: Implications for Violence and Peace in Nigeria. Open Journal of Philosophy

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Picardi, R.. (2015). The place of Hegelian dialectics in Paul Ricoeur’s thinking. Revue Des Sciences Philosophiques et Theologiques

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Zwart, H.. (2021). The Empirical and the Holistic Turn: A Hegelian Dialectics of Technoscience Revisited. Foundations of Science

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Tavilla, I., Kralik, R., Webb, C., Jiang, X., & Manuel, A. J.. (2019). The rise of fascism and the reformation of hegel’s dialectic into italian neo-idealist philosophy. XLinguae

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Ebbesen, D. K., & Olsen, J.. (2021). Exploring the Preconditions for a Developmental Science: Hegelian Metaphysics and Dialectics. Human Arenas

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Ex CIA discussing pedophilia and adrenochrome

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Wikipedia: Robert David Steele died from COVID-19 in Florida on August 29, 2021, at the age of 69.[13] Before his admission to hospital, Steele had promoted an anti-vaccination campaign.
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