We Are in a Titanic Battle Over the Narratives in Our Heads (we've always been)
2021-05-27 OGM Check-in Call
2021-09-24 Positive Cartography Mapathon
2022-02-08 PJB Call with Wendy McLean
2022-02-26 People First at Material Change
2022-03-08 Scaffolding Call with Pete and WendyE
2022-05-30 FJB Call: Social Truth?
2022-09-06 BMDA Keynote (Kaunas): Collective Sensemaking for a Future that Makes Sense
2023-06-10: A Discussion with Jerry Michalski on The Brain and Tinderbox - Q & A - getting started with Tinderbox
2023-07-20 OGM Check-in Call
2024-02-15 OGM Check-in Call
2024-03-07 Exploring What Works in Governance (3 of 4)
Common Themes across U21 Sessions
Flora Michaels: How one story is changing everything (2012, xlnt)
Grappling with the Collective Journey (xlnt)
How Does Self-interest Shape Today's Narratives, Ibram X. Kendi
How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America (2020)
Much Social Strife Happens when Narratives Justify Oppression and Sanction Unfair Advantage
No Single Person or Event Caused the GFC. It Was a Cascading Failure, Synchronized by Belief Systems
Stories Are Weapons: Psychological Warfare and the American Mind (2024)
Story Can Assert Control Over the Masses (xlnt)
The Commanding Heights: The Battle for the World Economy (1998)
The new political story that could change everything (2019 xlnt)
The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy (2022)
The Raging 2020s: Companies, Countries, People - and the Fight for Our Future (2021)
The War for the Future (um, really?)
Tropes and Networked Digital Activism #3: How Fact-Checkers Use Knowledge of Tropes to Fact-Check Quickly (and how you could too)
Tropes, not narratives or individual claims, are the lynchpin of activism and propaganda, whether true or false, participatory or not. They are more persistent than claims, more compelling than narrative.
We are in trouble now because we do not have a good story. We are in between stories.
We Need to Change Our Narratives (scripts, metaphors, framing)
Why Don’t We Talk about Power More?
Why Fox News Slimed a Purple Heart Recipient
Why Nations Rise: Narratives and the Path to Great Power (2021)
Winning the Story Wars: Why Those Who Tell (and Live) the Best Stories Will Rule the Future (2012)
All meaningful communication occurs via storytelling or reporting of events.
Emotion and Membership Trump Reason Most of the Time. Stories Are the Vessel.
How Ideas Conquer the World
Human History Is a Struggle Over the Joystick. Narratives Are Primary Weapons in This Battle.
Narrative Economics (2017 pdf)
Scripts We Have Running in Our Minds
Stories Are More Fundamental Than Facts
We Are Already in a Non-Linear War (2017)
‘Belonging Is Stronger Than Facts’: The Age of Misinformation
‘Chaos Is the Point’: Russian Hackers and Trolls Grow Stealthier in 2020
"When I look at the world I’m pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic."
#BLM Is White People's Problem
1. Everyone belongs to a tribe and underestimates how influential that tribe is on their thinking.
6. Serious Beliefs Are About Values And Identity
2020-09 Trust Is the (Only) Way Forward (my Unfinished keynote)
2020-11-05 OGM Call: What's Important Now
2021-07-13 Build OGM Call
2021-12-10 Friday Lunch at the Archive (me as guest)
2022-02-16 Group Discussion About The Week, Part 1
2022-02-19 Group Discussion About The Week, Part 3
2023-08-31 OGM Check-in Call
2024-01-11 OGM Call: Democracy? Governance?
2024-02-22 OGM Call (xlnt)
2024-04-11 OGM Call: Trauma (xlnt)
A Field Manual for Dealing with Trump (2/8): Strategery
A Healthy Entity Has Yin and Yang in Balance
A Russian Strategist's Take On Information Warfare
A Warning From Europe: The Worst Is Yet to Come (wow)
Active Measures (2018 Documentary on Russiagate - xlnt)
Affective Partisanship (Polarization)
All Corporations Should Become for Benefits
AlphaZero Illustrates (Limited) Computer Creativity
Alt Right Trolls Feel a Sense of Community inside Their Insurgency
Animals Are More Intelligent Than We Think
Any "orphaned, " connected device in the field >5 years has been p0wn3d
Appeal to People's Baser Emotions
Art and Storytelling Are Essential to OGM
Artificially Generated Narratives
Ask What People Need. Then Help.
Attention Is the Rarest and Purest Kind of Generosity
Authors I Disagree With Often
Automation Isn't the Problem - How We Organize Society Is
BANI (2018 Brittle Anxious Nonlinear Incomprehensible)
Being Heard and Respected, Then Exploring Alternatives
Belief Is a Kind of Blindness
Books Are Static Souvenirs, Snapshots of Thoughts at a Moment in Time. Their Online Presence Should Be Much Richer.
Bots Against US: The Ongoing Information War Against The United States
Bots Against US: The Ongoing Information War Against The United States (2019)
Brazil’s Troll Army Moves Into the Streets (wow)
Businesses Are Waking up to the Human Side
Center for Narrative Studies
Chapter 2: "Underlying beliefs that most of us share" - And why that may help... even during a 'civil war.'
Charlie Brookers 2014 Wipe - Non Linear Warfare by Media (Summary with Adam Curtis)
Children/Youth Are Far More Capable Than We Think
CIA Spy On WW3, Jeffrey Epstein, Israel-Hamas, AI & Social Media Brainwashing | Andrew Bustamante
Cities Are Where the Interesting Action Is
Colonialism Has Come Back to Bite the Colonizers
Colonialism, Then Capitalism, Wiped Out Our Hard-won Wisdom
Communities Are Like Mushrooms
Conspiracy Theories Around Coronavirus
Consumerization Has Made Us Stupider than We Otherwise Would Be
Contingencies, Accidents and Conjunctures
Contrarian Ideas I Believe
Contrarians Who Make (or Made) Sense
Conventional Wisdom Being Proven Obsolete (memes to flush)
Counter lies with emotions, not facts.
Culture Eats Strategy for Breakfast
Cyberwar: How Russian Hackers and Trolls Helped Elect a President—What We Don’t, Can’t, and Do Know (2018)
David Ropeik: How Risky Is It, Really?
Democracy Is Losing the Online Arms Race
Disinformation in the 2020 US Election Campaign
Dysfunctional Stories We Often Believe
Each Person Is the Center of Their Own Universe
Emmanuel Todd, one of the greatest French intellectuals today, claims that the "Third World War has started." (thread)
Emotional: How Feelings Shape Our Thinking (2022)
Emulating Humans Is the Wrong Goal for Robots and Machine Intelligence
Equity feels like loss to those who have privilege
Everything is Deeply Intertwingled
Executives Who Mislead Should Be Punished
Extremist Opinions Help Move the Needle in Their Direction
Extrinsic Rewards Erode Intrinsic Motivation and Authentic Connection
Facebook Wins, Democracy Loses (xlnt)
Faxes Were a Decade-Long Detour before the Internet Arrived
Four Separations of Consumerization
Gingrich Created the Current Political Rift in America
Give Away Your Best Ideas
Glia Are Much More Important than We Usually Think
Global Narrative Collapse
Global Shift to the (Far) Right
Hagel on Stories Vs Narratives
Handbook of Russian Information Warfare (pdf)
Having a Point of View Simplifies Dealing with the Future
Herd Behavior Has Hijacked Our Ability to Think
Hierarchies Should Be Temporary and Local
How Can the Country that Was Winning the Nonlinear War Blow the Actual War so Badly?
How Far Will You Go to Feel Part of a Group?
How Might We Blend the Best of the Old and New?
How politics makes us stupid
How Putin's oligarchs funneled millions into GOP campaigns
How QAnon Creates a Dangerous Alternate Reality (xlnt)
How the Trump-Russia Data Machine Games Google to Fool Americans
How Vladimir Putin is waging war on the West – and winning (2015)
How We Got Here (Jerry's amateur theory)
How We React to Events Is Incredibly Important
However, truth and accuracy are not the only things that matter to the human mind. Humans also seem to have a deep desire to belong.
Humans need to be heard before they will listen.
I call Econometrics "how to lie with numbers"
I'm Sorry: This Law Is Iron?
I’m Glad I Was Born when I Was
I’ve seen numerous threads talking about how this might be the world’s first “information war.” In reality, Russia has made use of disinformation and misdirection for a long time, and Putin’s behavior is consistent with recent history: not a deviation but an intensification. (thread)
Idols of the Tribe: Group Identity and Political Change
If I just explain the facts, they'll get it, right?
If We Kill the Oceans, We Kill All Life on Earth
Individualism Sold Us off the Common Good
Information Wars: A Window into the Alternative Media Ecosystem
Information Wars: How We Lost the Global Battle Against Disinformation and What We Can Do About It (2019)
Inside Russia’s and China’s Secret Operations to Defeat America
Is Trauma Necessary for Greatness?
It Is Sad that We Have to Teach Empathy
It's Hard for People to Invent New Behaviors
It’s time to confront the Trump-Putin nexus
It’s Time to Give Up on Facts
Jerry Michalski — Open Global Mind (Responsible Rebel episode)
Kill Chain: The Cyber War on America's Elections (2020)
Knowledge and Memory: The Real Story (1995 xlnt)
Lack of a Shared Memory Makes Us Easier to Spin and Manipulate
Language Shapes Expectations
Lies Are Extremely Powerful
List of Narrative (Literary) Techniques
Loyalty Is a Very Dangerous Force
Machine Learning Will "Outplay" Human Soldiers
MacroVoices #313 Dr. Pippa Malmgren: WWIII Has Already Started
Making Robots in Our Image Is a Mistake
Many Unnatural Beliefs Are Socialized into Us
Maximizing Shareholder Value (or Profits) Damages Humanity
Military Leaders Are Starting To Freak Out Over Russia's Information Warfare Dominance
Move Upstream Until Your Actions Can Be Most Effective
My Aha!s About Soil and Growing/Raising Food
My Beliefs About IP Protection
My Take on Human History: People with Power and Access Wrestling over the Joystick in the Cockpit
Narrative Collapse (when you no longer have time to tell the story)
Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events (2019)
Narrative String Theory (NST)
National Strategic Narratives
Native Americans Were More Numerous and Sophisticated Than We Think
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We Are in a Titanic Battle Over the Narratives in Our Heads (we've always been)
