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Robert Hamill

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    Gross Inequality and Social Contract
    Government

    Gross Inequality and Social Contract

    Robert Hamill 22 May 201830 Nov 20231 Comment

    Students, tomorrow's leaders, must understand that opportunity denied, returns as less respect for the rule of law.

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    Why Concern Over Targeted Ads?
    Government

    Why Concern Over Targeted Ads?

    Robert Hamill 27 Mar 201814 Oct 20241 Comment

    For the sake of elections based on facts, dark advertising must be brought into the light.

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    Reading Appreciation Class
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    Reading Appreciation Class

    Robert Hamill 26 Mar 20187 Dec 2024Leave a comment

    One lady shook her head and said to me, "I wanted to ask him (the teacher) why don't we read any stories that are happy"

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    Frequency of Messages – Impact
    Learning Mental Aspects

    Frequency of Messages – Impact

    Robert Hamill 21 Mar 201830 Mar 20244 Comments

    Mass media channels promote associations between political persons, issues, and value judgements. The volume of repetitions leads to linked associations.

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    Flash Mob and the Social Contract
    Society

    Flash Mob and the Social Contract

    Robert Hamill 20 Jan 201830 Nov 20234 Comments

    ... every US citizen should have an equal opportunity to achieve success and prosperity. If people grow up without that equal opportunity, it

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    Status Quo and Political Inertia
    Government

    Status Quo and Political Inertia

    Robert Hamill 19 Jan 201830 Nov 2023Leave a comment

    Status quo is the political inertia of social sciences. To change any situation, force must be applied.

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    Essay or Story

    Robert Hamill 14 Oct 201629 May 2022Leave a comment

    As a person interested in issues, sometimes I get a passion for a developing idea yet am unsure whether to express it as an essay…

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    Complicated Thought
    Mental Aspects Thought Modes

    Complicated Thought

    Robert Hamill 14 Sep 201625 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    A lengthy chain of simple actions can be as hard to gain an understanding of as a short complex action

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    Law of Selfish Action
    Economics

    Law of Selfish Action

    Robert Hamill 6 Sep 201630 Dec 2022Leave a comment

    A selfish action by one person may be good for that person, but if all people make the same decision - it can be bad…

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    Agents of Human Evolution
    Science

    Agents of Human Evolution

    Robert Hamill 4 Sep 20161 Feb 2023Leave a comment

    Nature experiments more freely in evolution with the male of the species.

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    The brain works with almost matches, not exact matches.

    • Dare We Change?
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      Dare We Change?

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      Boomer…Sees the Light

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    Measure of Daily Life
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    Measure of Daily Life

    Recently deceased hoisted by adults and societyTo cumulus heaven, adding Family myths and hard-earned lessonsTo guide our daily lives. Good and evil tally Yet change…

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    How Do We Think

    Visit Substack to Delve into How We Think

    We explore how biological needs give rise to emotion, emotion forms associative patterns, and language both reflects and reshapes our outlook. Discover how the mind weighs emotion against logic in shaping behavior.
    Each step rests on the brain’s All-or-Nothing firing, where near matches are treated as exact— and abstraction gives rise to emergent insight.

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    War Powers Act
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    War Powers Act

    Updated Jun 25, 2025 President Trump’s recent decision to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities—without congressional authorization or approval—has once again stirred the unresolved tension at the…

    • Failure of Old Economic Solutions
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      Failure of Old Economic Solutions

    • The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street
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      The Lane Between Wall Street and Main Street

    • Morality. Absolute or Relative
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      Morality. Absolute or Relative

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      Electricity’s Dark Side: Lessons from the Past

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    Tabulators separate ballots into piles for each presidential candidate during a recount in Dane County (Wis.) on December 1, 2016 in Madison, Wisconsin. (Getty)