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Weekly transmissions from Adbusters, the journal of the mental environment
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Ten years ago an academic paper stood the social sciences on their ear. It came out of the psychology department at the University of British Columbia.
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A certain kind of person, the authors noticed, has been building the models and running the experiments and basically “programming the algorithms that run the world.” The psychologists coined a term for those people: They are WEIRD.
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Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic.
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But with the WEIRDos in charge, we’ve become stuck in the mud. It’s time to bring in some outside minds.
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We've had enough of being run into the ground by banks, billionaires and tyrants. So this summer, in the lead-up to the 10th anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, we strike.
Dare to show your conviction with the official hachimaki-inspired headgear of the Blackspot Collective. Or wear your wild heart on your sleeve with a locally printed #WorldwideGeneralStrike t-shirt.
See you in the streets . . .
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I'm about to give you the codes. Are you ready?
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