1. The Devil's Advocate

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* Is shame a motivational tool?* https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268449831_Shame_and_motivation_to_change_the_selfhttps://positivepsychology.com/shame-guilt/* Limitations: Small number of people polled, the great majority are White Americans, so not diverse. This acts as a great jumping off point, but certainly is not definitive.* Emotions polled: Shame, Guilt, Embarrassment: 3 different but intertwined emotions to various degrees.* Generalized Results:* Shame:  was the highest when an action was bad enough to motivate someone to change. Make “me” right so it doesn’t happen again. But shame is also related to wanting to distance oneself from the event. This can run contradictory to making change. So, “I want to change”, but then forget about it, so the change doesn’t actually take place.* Guilt: Stronger in wanting to repair the event. Make “it” right.* Embarrassment: Distance oneself from the event. Forget “it” happened.* Should Satanists even feel shame? If Satanists are so “elite”, how could one possibly be ashamed?* Should it be embraced or ignored?* How does one take advantage of shame to elicit real change?* How does one not fall into the trap of forgetting the shameful event, sabotaging the very portion required to elicit the change?* Shame is useful primarily in social situations as an early life learning tool. * In the absence of personal shame, it is up to the group to provide it as a teaching tool. * Being without shame is not inherently a bad thing if self aware.

2. Infernal Informant

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* Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the Weimar Republic: History's dark lessons* https://www.salon.com/2021/06/06/joe-biden-donald-trump-and-the-weimar-republic-historys-dark-lessons/* If Donald Trump's movement is destined to be America's answer to Nazism, then the Joe Biden administration is currently a rough equivalent of the Weimar Republic — the unstable constitutional democracy that governed Germany before the rise of Adolf Hitler. The comparison is imperfect, but the cautionary tale is still clear. There is an obvious risk that Biden and the narrow Democratic majorities in Congress will fail, and that Trump or a successor will take over and then cement themselves into power for at least the next generation. Every American who wants to avoid this — especially Biden and the leading Democrats in Congress — needs to learn the right lessons from Germany in the 1920s and 1930s.* It would require a medium-length academic article to lay out all the similar and dissimilar qualities of these two nations in these two periods. But for the purposes of understanding the threat posed by Trumpism, there are five key similarities:* 1. Both sagas began with an incompetent right-wing ruler. In Germany's case, they had the misfortune of being led by Kaiser Wilhelm II, who has been described as viewing "other people in instrumental terms," as a "compulsive liar" and possessing "a limited understanding of cause and effect." That sounds more than a little bit like Donald Trump,