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April 9, 2021 6:19 pm
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We are all creatures of instincts. We have instincts to be territorial, hierarchical, maternal, paternal, and acquisitional — and those instincts tend to shape our cultures, guide our thinking, and activate and steer our emotions every day of our lives. Those basic sets of instincts shape common patterns of behavior across the planet — and they can be seen everywhere once we know what they...
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January 14, 2021 6:36 pm
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We are going into some very challenging times as a country. We just went through a very intense and highly conflicted time in our national capital and we have many people extremely angry with one another in all directions as the result of those events and those occurrences. We need to figure out the right things to do right now to give us the best...
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November 18, 2020 9:03 pm
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We have choices to make about the future of our country. We also have choices to make about the future of our communities and our families. If we make the wrong decisions, we could be headed for a future of anger, division, and serious damage for ourselves, our families, and for the futures of our children and our grandchildren. We could and probably will doom...
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October 21, 2020 7:36 pm
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We could be headed for the most dangerous months in the history of our country. We could damage ourselves in permanent ways and we could find ourselves in very ugly and even evil places if we do not react in positive ways in the days, weeks, and months ahead. We are all creatures of Instincts. We have very powerful instincts to divide the world into...
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July 21, 2020 5:57 am
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We need to eliminate the learning gaps in our schools that are damaging so many children. The learning gaps have been getting worse — and that is happening because the basic realities of brain development science tells us that the things we need to do to close those gaps must be done for each child when the children are 15 months old — and there...
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May 1, 2020 9:55 am
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We have learned a lot about our national health care non-system in the weak and disorganized response we have just had to the Covid-19 epidemic. We are at a point in our history where we should be figuring out how to provide better care and how we should manage to follow the lead of every other western country and actually cover everyone, and we can...
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April 3, 2020 10:16 pm
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Our country and the world should never again suffer this kind of damage and disruption from a new disease. We know enough science and we have more than enough computer capability and data sharing capacity to identify any similar risks to us in the future as soon as they arise and to do exactly what we need to do relatively quickly to turn each new...
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January 31, 2020 10:07 am
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We have important new information about the impact of racism on the preterm birth rates in our country. We now know that African American mothers who feel stress about the impact of racism on their children are more than twice as likely to give birth prematurely. We also now know that the negative impact of the stress actually increases as both education levels and income...
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October 23, 2019 5:40 am
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Many people have an appreciation of the huge impact that Alpha instincts have on our communities and our lives. The InterGroup books describe those instincts in several places. People who have their Alpha instincts activated tend to act in Alpha ways — tending to be territorial, antagonistic toward other alphas and other groups, and to have expectations about how they are personally treated in their...
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September 25, 2019 1:52 am
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There are times when it is extremely useful to be able to bring people together to create a sense of alignment and shared purpose and to have a sense of being Us rather than Them. Bringing people together in various settings to create a sense of group identity and shared purpose can sometimes be an extremely useful and important thing to do, and that is...
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