This glossary includes a variety of notions, conjectures, concepts, axioms, propositions, assertions, statements, judgments, and corollaries. Drawn from my books, it provides brief summaries of the ideas that I have thought out independently. One could say that this is my attempt to put forth ideas.
Denial: The Uncomfortable Truth About Being Human
- Nonuniversal Values: referring to how the values a person holds is not universal yet humans have a common tendency to falsely presume so; synonymous with the false consensus bias
- Egocentric Insecurity: this term highlights the connection between insecurity and an underlying focus on oneself and that simply being insecure equals being egocentric or self-important
- Deflective Egotism: a situation where the person who is insecure and egotistical projects their own issues onto others by accusing them of being egotistical. Essentially, the person with the actual ego problem is the one pointing fingers; in correlation with the Egocentric Insecurity phenomena.
- Universally Accepted Confirmation Bias: People consider a norm to be innocuous. It establishes a standard that dictates whether an act is permissible or to be avoided. A universally accepted one means that people in a society unconciously accepts a bias because its the norm.
The Rise of the Radical Right: How the Left Helped Create a Political Monster
- Neo-Boomer: A 21st-century conservative who idealises mid-20th-century values like traditional family structures, religion, and privatisation, despite not having lived in that era. Their views are more radical than baby boomers’, resisting modern social progress and embracing nostalgia.
- Boomerism: A reactionary ideology that glorifies outdated values from the baby boomer era, focusing on traditional gender roles, religion, and free-market policies. Neo-Boomers take these views to extremes, opposing modern advancements and pushing for a return to the past.
- Label Fetishism: …is a pervasive force in contemporary discourse, particularly in the United States. It is the obsessive attachment to self-imposed labels and the belief that these labels must dictate every aspect of one’s identity and worldview.