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Iceberg model of the conscious and the subconscious.

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Connecting the abstract to the emotional

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Aztec Heart Sacrifice

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Ideological Structure of Consumerism

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Ideological Structure of Contributionism

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Consumerism and Contributionism cycles

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Consumer Community 

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Development of Consumerism 

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Charle Bradlaugh

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The Frontal Cortex

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Insular Cortex and the Amygdala

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Ideological Complexity and the Distance Between the Abstract and the Emotional

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Innate Values Affect & Bias Cultural Values, Emotions and Behaviours

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Duality of Empathy

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Pendulum of cooperative form

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Income Share in the USA

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Force Against Changing Reality

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Approval of Interracial Marriage

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Ideological Structure of English Christianity

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Ideological Structure of English Secularism

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Ideological Structure of High House Prices

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House Prices Change in the UK

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Ideological Structure of Affordable Housing

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Ideological Structure of Drug Prohibition

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The Fundamental Economic Problem with Drug Prohibition

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Ideological Structure of Drug Decriminalisation

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Ideological Structure of Climate Change Denial

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Human Beings Nature's Weirdest Animal

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Evolution of the Brain

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Ideological Stucture of English Christianity

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Behavioural Range

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Different Behavioural Ranges Depending on Understandings of Reality

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Ideological Stucture of English Christianity

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Society Shifting Toward Reality-Based  Perspective

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Two Different Societies

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Common Ground 

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Social Disconnection Due to Behavioural Range

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Horseshoe Theory of the Political Spectrum

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The Political Spectrum of Group Boundary Definition

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Legal-Social Gap

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Cognitive Deviance

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