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The primary focuses are Zen, psychotherapy, games/game analysis, fascism, iFascism, war, aspects of American culture, and the manuscript Games Fascists Play: The Psychology of Supremacy.
Jean Baudrillard’s use of the term “deterrence” is repeated throughout. Deterrence is a de-motivating force, so it causes something to not happen. Deterrence is discussed as it relates to the U.S. and the global capitalist system. The other concept is Ego, i.e., sense of self. Both the system we are in and the Ego are forms of enclosure that create separation (me and you/us vs them/citizen and immigrant/etc.). Functionally, we are a society of captives with the ultra-rich as our custodians in a corporate structure akin to a U.S. maximum security prison. 1
Here is a list of articles and references cited during the talk:
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References
Berardi, F. (2024). Quit everything: Interpreting depression. London: Repeater.
Larson, E.J. (2021). The myth of artificial intelligence: Why computers can’t think the way we do. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.
Sykes, G. M. (1965). The society of captives: A study of a maximum security prison. Antheneum: New York.
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