Featured · Historical Apoplexy

Historical Apoplexy

Epistemic Senicide and the Stroke-Like Loss of Civilizational Memory

Civilizations don't only die. Sometimes they have a stroke, specific regions of prior knowledge go dark while motor function continues. Solutions known are forgotten, then re-presented as new. This is the ten-paper diagnosis: what the disease looks like, how it progresses through apoplectic plagiarism into epistemic senicide, and what an honest civilization would have to remember to recover.

The Vitruvian Quotient

A Scientifically Grounded Human Intelligence Framework and a Neurological Gymnasium for the Future with AI

IQ measures one thing. Life requires eight. The Vitruvian Quotient is the scientifically grounded framework, built on peer-reviewed assessments, mapped to specific brain regions, and engineered with no test ceiling, that finally gives the multi-intelligence idea its working instrument.

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VQ, the Abundant Society, and Engineered Adversity

Featured · Memoirs

Tall Poppied

Memoirs of the Most Intelligent Poor

What the literature on cross-class friendships predicts: a poor person befriended by a richer person rises. What actually happens, often, when the poor person is competent enough to threaten the richer one: the relationship reverses gravity. The friendship that was supposed to lift you leaves you lower than it found you.

Campaign as a Classroom

Non-Partisan Self-Guided Civic Education for All

American campaigns are run as marketing operations. They produce voters who can be moved but not citizens who can govern. The political industry is the only major industry in the United States with no trade schools, no occupational review boards, no unions, and no third-party accreditors, the four guiding bodies every certified profession from electrician to nurse to dentist takes for granted. In 2016 Imran Stanton Cooper registered the Sassafras and Maple Research Foundation with the Colorado Department of Higher Education as the first nonpartisan civic-education trade school in the country. Campaign as a Classroom is the field manual that came out of it: run a campaign correctly and the volunteers leave knowing how the machine actually works. Run a school correctly and the students graduate fluent in the procedural literacy that lets them run one.

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Civic education infrastructure as the political-science book and the sociology-of-tech book the country actually needs.