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Tracking History As It Unfolds/Analyzing Brands
 Desires/Aversions/Powers, High Awareness/High Attention,
Emotions/Feelings, Mood, Love/Hate, Irrationality Indexes/Charts
2008
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CAUCUSES AND PRIMARIES
WHAT WAS ON PEOPLE'S MIND?

 

Tracking History As It Unfolds
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GLOBAL CRISES

Humanity faces a multiplicity of global crises – all having the same cause: A rule of law that is rooted in archaic and Ptolemaic philosophies.

Capitalism – the freedom to create, own, and trade assets – has lost its compass. It has been transformed into debt-based capitalism – into what the first lawgivers called "usury." And "usury," most people will tell you, has . . .

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CLIMATE CHANGE

GLOBAL IMPACT OF THE UN IPCC REPORT "CLIMATE CHANGE 2007: THE PHYSICAL SCIENCE BASIS" ON PEOPLE'S STATE OF MIND

WORKING GROUP I OF THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL ON CLIMATE CHANGE (IPCC) ANNOUNCED IT ADOPTED THE SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS OF VOLUME ONE OF "CLIMATE CHANGE 2007" IN PARIS ON 2-FEB-07.

WHAT WAS THE IMPACT OF THE ANNOUNCEMENT AND OTHER COMPETING EVENTS ON PEOPLE'S STATE OF MIND WORLDWIDE?

Five time periods are compared: ±1 day; ±30 days; ±90 days; ±365 days.

THE BUSINESS CYCLE

THE BOOM/BUST CROSSOVER
ON 9-OCT-07

BOTH THE DOW AND THE S&P HIT RECORD HIGHS ON 9-OCT-07. WHAT WAS ON PEOPLE'S MIND PRE/POST THE CROSSOVER?

Psycho-Market Analytics - Key Findings
Desires, Aversions, Powers, Emotions, Feelings, and Irrationality Indexes/Charts

THE CENTRAL BANKS' BAILOUT OF SHORT-TERM FUNDING MARKETS
ON 12-DEC-07
WHAT FORCED THEM TO INTERVENE?
DID THEY SUCCEED?

THE SUBPRIME MORTGAGE MELTDOWN - PART ONE

Psycho-Political Analysis - Key Findings
Desires, Aversions, Powers, Emotions, Feelings, and Irrationality Indexes/Charts

MACROKNOW TOPIC OF THE YEAR
  
 ARITHMETIC
or "CALCULATIVE THINKING"
  

THE FIRST SEVEN YEARS OF THE 21ST CENTURY

NEOCON INTENTIONALITY
 
NOTHING BUT MALICE
 
ORIGIN, NATURE, STRUCTURE OF NEOCON STRATEGY

IRRATIONAL EXUBERANCE

CORRELATIVE WITH  MOVEMENTS OF THE DOW JONES INDUSTRIAL AVERAGE
19-MAR-07 AND 21-MAR-07

HOW DID PEOPLE FEEL?
WHAT WAS THEIR EMOTIONAL STATE?
HOW IRRATIONAL WERE THEY?

WEEKDAY WORLD ISSUES
DISTRIBUTION OF GLOBAL HIGH AWARENESS/HIGH ATTENTION BY DESIRES, AVERSIONS, AND POWERS

LAST WEEK - ALL WEEKS SINCE 1-JAN-07

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ED'S FAVORITE QUOTATIONS. Copyright  © 2000 by Edward T.M. Ayoub. All Rights Reserved.The Macroknow Libtary™ offers ED's Favorite Quotations™ for your enjoyment. The quotations reveal the thoughts of the great thinkers on freedom, truth, money, debt, free trade, evil, deception, the law, justice (or the lack of it), religion, war, etc.

The Macroknow Library™ offers a network of links and knowledge maps that connect and relate the quotations. These are valuable education resources. 

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POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY: THOMAS JEFFERSON
 
 

Thomas Jefferson On Politics & Government. Quotations from the Writings of Thomas Jefferson. Collected and edited by Eyler Robert Coates, Sr. Metairie, Jefferson Parish, LA. Charlottesville, VA: University of Virginia, 1995.
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NEW REVIEWS
 
PHILOSOPHY-CRITICAL THEORY: GEORGES BATAILLE
 

Georges Bataille (1897-1962). Inner Experience. Translated, with an Introduction, by Leslie Anne Boldt. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1988. (Originally published as L’Experience Interieure, Editions Gallimard, 1954.)
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PHILOSOPHY-ART: GEORGES BATAILLE
 
Georges Bataille. The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism. Edited, translated and introduced by Michael Richardson. Translation and Introduction, Michael Richardson, 1994. London, UK: Verso, 2006. (From Georges Bataille, Oeuvres complètes, Editions Gallimard, 1976-1988.)
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PHILOSOPHY: HERACLITUS
 

7 Greeks: Archilocos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, Herondas. Translations by Guy Davenport. Guy Davenport, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1991, 1995. The Regents of the University of California, 1980. New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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PHILOSOPHY: DIOGENES
 

7 Greeks: Archilocos, Sappho, Alkman, Anakreon, Herakleitos, Diogenes, Herondas. Translations by Guy Davenport. Guy Davenport, 1976, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1991, 1995. The Regents of the University of California, 1980. New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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PHILOSOPHY: ALAIN BADIOU
 

Alain Badiou. Being and Event. Translated by Oliver Feltham. New York, NY: Continuum, 2005. (Originally published in French as L’être et l’événement, Editions du Seuil, 1988.)
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HISTORY-POLITICS: RALPH NADER
 

Ralph Nader. The Ralph Nader Reader. Foreword by Barbara Ehrenreich. Ralph Nader, 2000. New York, NY: Seven Stories Press.
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RECENT REVIEWS
SCIENCE-LITERATURE: JULES HENRI POINCARÉ
 

Henri Poincaré (1854-1912). The Value of Science: Essential Writings of Henri Poincaré. Stephen Jay Gould, Series Editor. Biographical note and compilation, Random House, Inc., 2001. Series introduction, Stephen Jay Gould, 2001. New York, NY: Modern Library.
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HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY: FRIEDRICH JOHANN GOTTFRIED VON HERDER
 

Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744-1803). Philosophical Writings. Translated and Edited by Michael N. Forster. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
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PHILOSOPHY-HERMENEUTICS-CRITICISM: FRIEDRICH DANIEL ERNST SCHLEIERMACHER
 

Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834). Hermeneutics And Criticism and Other Writings. Translated and Edited by Andrew Bowie. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
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PHILOSOPHY-ONTOLOGY-HERMENEUTICS: MARTIN HEIDEGGER
 

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). Ontology – The Hermeneutics of Facticity. Translated by John van Buren. Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main, 1988. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999.
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PHILOSOPHY-RELIGION: SOREN AABY KIERKEGAARD
 

Soren Kierkegaard (1813-1855). The Concept of Anxiety: A Simple Psychologically Orienting Deliberation on the Dogmatic Issue of Hereditary Sin. Edited and Translated with Introduction and Notes by Reider Thomte. In collaboration with Albert B. Anderson. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1980.
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CURRENT AFFAIRS: JOHN ZERZAN
 

John Zerzan (b. 1943). Running on Emptiness: The Pathology of Civilization. John Zerzan, 2002. Los Angeles, CA: Feral House.
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LITERATURE-HISTORY: ANCIENT EGYPTIAN SAGES
       
Miriam Lichtheim (1914-2004). Ancient Egyptian Literature. Volume I: The Old and Middle Kingdoms. With a New Forward by Antonio Loprieno. The Regents of the University of California, 1973, 2006. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Miriam Lichtheim. Ancient Egyptian Literature. Volume II: The New Kingdom. With a New Forward by Hans-W. Fischer-Elfert. The Regents of the University of California, 1976, 2006. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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Miriam Lichtheim. Ancient Egyptian Literature. Volume III: The Late Period. With a New Forward by Joseph G. Manning. The Regents of the University of California, 1980, 2006. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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PHILOSOPHY: ARISTOTLE
 
Aristotle. De Anima. Translated by R. D. Hicks. Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1991.
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PHILOSOPHY: EDMUND HUSSERL
 

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938). The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology: An Introduction to Phenomenological Philosophy. Translated, with an Introduction, by David Carr. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 1970.
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Edmund Husserl. Formal and Transcendental Logic. Translated by Dorion Cairns. The Hague, Netherlands: Martinus Nijhoff, 1969.
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EROTIC LITERATURE-PHILOSOPHY: MARQUIS DE SADE
 

CONTROVERSIAL
Marquis de Sade. The Complete Marquis de Sade. (Volumes I and II.) Translated from the original French text by Dr. Paul J. Gillette. With an Introduction by John S. Yankowski. Paul J. Gillette, 1966, 2005. Los Angeles, CA: Holloway House Publishing Co., 2006.
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PHILOSOPHY-PSYCHOLOGY: FRANZ CLEMENS BRENTANO
 

Franz Brentano. Psychology from an Empirical Standpoint. Edited by Oscar Kraus. English Edition edited by Linda L. McAlister. With a new Introduction by Peter Simons. Translated by Antos C. Rancurello, D. B. Terrell and Linda L. McAlister. New York, NY: Routledge, 1973,1995.
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THEORIES OF MEDIA: JEAN BAUDRILLARD
 

Jean Baudrillard. Simulacra and Simulation. Translated by Sheila Faria Glaser. Ann Arbor, MI: The University of Michigan Press, 1994. Originally published in French by Éditions Galilée, 1981.
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PHILOSOPHY: JOHN DEWEY
 

John Dewey (1859-1952). Essays in Experimental Logic. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1954, 2004. (Unabridged republication of the edition published by the University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 1916.)
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PSYCHOLOGY: GUSTAVE LE BON
 

Gustave Le Bon (1841-1931). The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 2002. (An unabridged republication of a standard English translation of the work originally published in 1895 in France as La psychologie des foules.)
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PHILOSOPHY: GEORGE SANTAYANA
 

George Santayana (1863-1952). Scepticism and Animal Faith: Introduction to a System of Philosophy. New York, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1955.
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LOGIC: GEORGE BOOLE
 
George Boole (1815-1864). An Investigation of the Laws of Thought on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, Inc., 1958. (Originally published by Macmillan in 1854.)
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SOCIOLOGY: WILLIAM JOSIAH GOODE
 

William J. Goode. The Celebration of Heroes: Prestige as a Social Control System. The Regents of the University of California, 1978. Berkeley, CA: University of California.
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PHILOSOPHY: JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
 

J. G. Fichte (1762-1814). The Science of Knowing: J. G. Fichte’s 1804 Lectures on the Wissenschaftslehre. Translated by Walter E. Wright. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2005.
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PSYCHOLOGY-RELIGION: CARL GUSTAV JUNG
 
Carl Gustav Jung. Answer to Job. 50th-Aniversary Edition. Translated by R.F.C. Hunt. Bollingen Foundation, New York, NY, 1958. Princeton University Press, 1969 (2nd Edition), 1973 (Editorial Note). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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SEXUAL MEDICINE: WILLIAM H. MASTERS AND VIRGINIA E. JOHNSON
 

SEXUAL MEDICINE
William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson. Human Sexual Response. William H. Masters and Virginia E. Johnson, 1966. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
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POETRY-POLITICS: EZRA WESTON LOOMIS POUND
 

CONTROVERSIAL
Ezra Pound (1885-1972). The Cantos of Ezra Pound. Ezra Pound, 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1950, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966, 1968, 1970, 1971. The Estate of Ezra Pound, 1969, 1972. The Trustees of the Ezra Pound Literary Property Trust, 1973, 1986. Vice Versa, 1942. Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc., 1950. New York, NY: New Directions Publishing Corporation.
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PSYCHOLOGY: WILLIAM JAMES
William James (1842-1910). The Principles of Psychology (Volume 1).  Henry Holt & Co., 1890. Alice H. James, 1918. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1950. (First published by Henry Holt & Co. in 1890.) 
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William James (1842-1910). The Principles of Psychology (Volume 2).  Henry Holt & Co., 1890. Alice H. James, 1918. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 1950. (First published by Henry Holt & Co. in 1890.)
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Carl Gustav Jung. Answer to Job. 50th-Aniversary Edition. Translated by R.F.C. Hunt. Bollingen Foundation, New York, NY, 1958. Princeton University Press, 1969 (2nd Edition), 1973 (Editorial Note). Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
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