SDCT0019: “In a democracy,” it is said, “people get the government they deserve.” The strength or the weakness of a democracy lies in its voters — the quality of the government reflects that of the voters.But government doesn’t reflect the qua

The Psychotic, Irrational, and Antisocial Styles of Small Circle Politics: Unreceptiveness Toward External Reality, Logic, and Social Information - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Jun 24th, 2018 40m 25s

SDCT0018: The Second Law of Thermodynamics says that isolated systems move toward a state of disorder. Human minds and groups become isolated systems to varying degrees when they reject their external environments, thus failing to benefit from

A Scientific Definition of Evil: Excess Extroverted Assimilation Directed at the Social Environment - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Jun 20th, 2018 39m 38s

SDCT0017: Science is supposed to be value-free — it’s not supposed to make moral judgments. In the eyes of science, things are just as they are; they’re neither good nor bad. But, can science form a systematic definition of morality? Moral judg

The Big Circle Left vs the Small Circle Right: How Big Is Your Circle of Family? A “Tiny Bubble” Political Party Rips Babies Out of the Arms of Mothers and Tears Families Apart - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Jun 18th, 2018 37m 30s

SDCT0016: The single most basic question for citizens and their government alike is this: How big is your circle of family? Is it just you and your own children? Does it include anyone outside of your own home? Can a circle of family contain yo

The Golden Mean Bell Curve: Maximum Good is the Balance Between Selflessness and Selfishness, Between Valuing a Nation’s Whole and Its Parts - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Jun 16th, 2018 36m 32s

SDCT0015: This episode compares synecdoche (whole substituting for parts or vice versa) to three types of attention deficit disorder, and to two standards of academic achievement. Minds that focus too much on the whole will focus too little on

The Public has a Duty to Support the Rights of Citizens, and Citizens have a Duty to Support the Rights of the Public. If the Public Shirks its Duty, Citizens are Tyrannized; if Citizens Shirk their Duty, the Public is Tyrannized. - Saving Democracy with

Jun 1st, 2018 35m 24s

SDCT0014: This episode continues the theme of synecdoche, which is a cognitive tendency to substitute parts for the whole or whole for the parts.A nation, as a whole, is greater than the sum of its parts, which are the individual citizens. The

Synecdoche: A Cognitive Weakness in Small Circle Thinking, Where a Part is Easily Switched for a Whole, or a Whole is Easily Switched for a Part - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

May 27th, 2018 36m 40s

SDCT0013: Small circle thinkers, the kinds of minds that are most attracted to the small circle far right edge of the political spectrum, tend to focus on individual units of information, and not on complex groups, interrelated factors, or syst

Zooming Out and Zooming In: Synthesis and Analysis, Holism and Reductionism, Inductive and Deductive Reasoning, Merge with Big Circle Politics on the Left, and Small Circle Politics on the Right - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

May 24th, 2018 39m 48s

SDCT0012: We can construct a modern scientific technology of government by connecting themes that are firmly established in cognitive science with what we know about the left and right wings of the political spectrum. And we must do so; the fut

A Theory as a Poem: When Most Elegant, an Ideal Theory Has a Repetition and Symmetry that Resembles the Telling of a Poem - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

May 18th, 2018 33m 39s

SDCT0011: This episode gives a brief overview of the book that Daniel Dodge is writing, and presents a few of his thoughts about the characteristics of a perfect psychological or political theory. When a theory is fully simplified and developed

The “Sugar-Salt” Conflation: Mixing Up Selflessness And Selfishness, Making it Hard to Achieve a Good Balance in Politics - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

May 14th, 2018 41m 42s

SDCT0010: The first ten episodes of this series describe the basic themes of Circles Theory as applied to politics. In this final introductory episode, we explore a mirror symmetry between political selflessness and selfishness. Individuals tha

King George III's 1776 Focus Group: How to Avoid the American Revolution By 'Stealing and Flipping' the Words of Patriots - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Apr 13th, 2018 38m 36s

SDCT0009: Authoritarianism and libertarianism, two kinds of far-right “tiny bubble” politics, are both antithetical to democracy. They both describe government that only accommodates to king-like individuals — a single central king in authorita

Tiny Bubbles on the Far Right: Authoritarians are Just One Tiny Bubble, Libertarians are Soap Suds - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Apr 2nd, 2018 39m 43s

SDCT0008: Bridging individual and social psychology, we discuss what it is that binds individuals together into social groups: shared circles of accommodation. Some groups have small circles of accommodation toward one individual, a “strict fat

Look Both Ways: The Big Circle Left Defends the Majority from Individuals; the Small Circle Right Defends Individuals from the Majority - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 28th, 2018 37m 45s

SDCT0007: The small circle cognitive style, which focuses on “shards and swirls” — individual fragments of information not assembled into “the big picture” — is the starting place for the human species, as well as for individual members of our

Big Hearts and Big Minds: Simple Cognitive Frames for the Big Circle, Pro-Democracy Left - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 23rd, 2018 38m 57s

SDCT0006: Democracy is a form of government that involves a big circle of social accommodation embracing the majority of a nation’s citizens. It upholds the will of the majority, unlike its right-wing counterpart, which counterbalances the majo

Going Too Far: Blind Trust, Blind Distrust, and Blind Self-Absorption - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 20th, 2018 41m 52s

SDCT0005: This episode discusses the pure cognitive states of excess accommodation, excess extroverted assimilation, and excess introverted assimilation, and applies these concepts to politics. Minds that are too accommodative are gullible, too

There Are No Villains in the Human Mind, Only Excess. - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 16th, 2018 37m

SDCT0004: Discussing excesses in the human mind and in politics. Excess accommodation leads minds and political parties to become overly passive, too trusting of the RLS environment. Excess introverted and extroverted assimilation both result i

Building on the Basic Concepts of Circles Theory - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 13th, 2018 39m 38s

SDCT0003: Review of the 2×2 grid that describes cognitive adaptation, introverted assimilation, and extroverted assimilation (learning, thinking, and acting — or input, processing, and output). More discussion of a Venn diagram that resembles a

Basic concepts of Circles Theory - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 9th, 2018 37m 19s

SDCT0002: Understanding the cognitive psychological concepts of accommodation (“learning”), introverted assimilation (“thinking”), and extroverted assimilation (“acting”), and visualizing these terms using Venn diagrams that resemble the parts

Intro to Saving Democracy with Circles Theory - Saving Democracy with Circles Theory

Mar 6th, 2018 36m 26s

SDCT0001: An introduction to Circles Theory, and how it describes the left-versus-right-wing political spectrum. I argue for applying science in a way that doesn’t sound scientific, but that uses populist language of good versus evil. Music in

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