https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/27/fact-check-is-zohran-mamdani-a-communist 

Mamdani’s platform calls for making transportation, housing and groceries more affordable, but experts say he hasn’t espoused key tenets of communism, such as government takeover of industry and private property.

“Mamdani is NOT a communist,” wrote Anna Grzymala-Busse, Stanford University professor of international studies, in an email to PolitiFact. “Communism involves a centrally planned economy, with no market forces. Prices and quantities are set by a central government authority. There is no democratic political competition, and instead a single party rules the country. He is not calling for any of this.”

Accusing Democrats of being communists or communist sympathisers is a frequent misleading attack line by some Republicans.

The Echo Chamber Trap: How ChatGPT Could Be Boosting Your Ego  https://uxplanet.org/the-echo-chamber-trap-how-chatgpt-could-be-boosting-your-ego-a2a1521000a8  Escape the Echo Chamber 1. Request Critical Feedback  2. Get External Opinions  3. Explore Contradictory Views 4. Blend AI and Human Feedback

Keep Your Ego in Check

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https://jinankb.medium.com/reason-the-hidden-root-of-modern-violence-part-1-6a182c6ad250

there has been significant work — though scattered — exploring how reason, particularly in its modern, abstracted, and institutionalized form, leads to violence, domination, and disconnection. However, much of this work still operates within the academic frame, often not going as deeply or as embodied as your inquiry aims to go.

Here are some key thinkers and themes that may resonate with or parallel your direction

1. Ivan Illich Deschooling Society, Medical Nemesis, Tools for Conviviality
2. Theodor Adorno & Max Horkheimer — Dialectic of Enlightenment
3. Foucault — particularly on biopower, disciplinary reason, and rationality in institutions
4. John Zerzan — critiques symbolic thought, including language and reason
5. Vine Deloria Jr. — Indigenous critique of Western reason
6. James Hillman — Archetypal Psychology
7. Martin Heidegger - The Question Concerning Technology
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