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Letter to Lord Stretch and Claude: Deconstructing the Westphalian Overlay
"Our" thoughts after reading another amazing article on Lord Stretch's Substack...
16 hrs ago
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Russell McOrmond
Does the Westphalian system do more than draw lines around land and life?
What about the physical, mental and spirituality of the life?
Mar 23
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Governance and land status of the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations) within the Haldimand Tract.
A quick query returning a Gestalt Perception.
Mar 22
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My ongoing learning about Inuit Homelands (Inuit Nunaat)
This time allowing myself to use an LLM that has been primed with a Gestalt Perception.
Mar 21
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Russell McOrmond
Does interacting with AI within the context of Western individualism hide dimensions for dimensional thinking?
Continuing an AI chat with another AI chat.
Mar 19
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White Nationalism: the self-identified, the unaware, and the aware
Thoughts that came to mind while listening to Rachel Gilmore's reporting
Mar 14
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What About China “Whataboutism”?
Does the lens change the direction of a “whataboutism”
Mar 3
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“Patriarchy wears many suits—whiteness, colonialism, capitalism—and they share a tailor.”
Expanding on ideas expressed by Jaime Hoerricks
Feb 20
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Who are the Ferengi (Star Trek), Firingi (Bengali), Farang (Thai), faranji (Arabic and Persian)?
I'm a certain type of nerd, so will use Star Trek to discuss social sciences and words in various languages.
Feb 4
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A future for Canada? "Acquiring" Canada and Greenland are very different concepts.
A better understanding of “Canada” is required to understanding ongoing impacts of US doctrines
Jan 12
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A future for Canada? Is Canada sufficiently different from the United States?
Trying to move the conversation beyond a false binary.
Jan 7
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I am not my body! Understanding genos (Greek) vs homo (Latin)
2025 has been more learning about who I am, and importantly who I am not.
Dec 31, 2025
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