Gorgias, 6–8
Greek philosophy, 3, 6, 10, 40, 50–51, 114, 142, 156–160, 182, 200
haiku, 43
hallucinations, 84–88, 96, 169, 176
Hamlet (attributed to Shakespeare), 169
Harman, Gilbert, 75
Harwood, Robin, 121
The Heart of Darkness (Conrad), 58
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 38–42, 45
Hegelian dialectic, 38–42, 45
heuristics, 172–73, 175, 180
Hitler, Adolf, 177–78
compared with Trump, 27, 54, 86–88, 96
Hobbes, Thomas, 9
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big (Adams), 47, 51
Hume, David, 22, 53
humor, 4, 21, 40, 47–54, 72, 104, 159, 186, 192, 197
hypnosis, 5–6, 64, 176
hypothesis, 3, 8, 10–11, 55, 76, 170, 178, 201–04
ignorance, 41, 93, 131–32, 172–75, 182, 192, 200
immigration, 18, 90–95, 117
induction, problem of, 22
induhviduals, 113–120, 124
inference to the best explanation, 75
infrastructure, 92
intentional wrongness, 19–20, 32–33
irony, 40–45, 51, 54
irrational, humans as, 11–13, 22–23, 53–54, 71–72, 86, 96–99, 105, 109, 115, 129–136, 141, 144, 163, 169–176, 177–183, 187
Jobs, Steve, 15
The Joy of Work (Adams), 19, 44–45, 48, 71, 73, 75, 77–80, 155, 157–163, 169, 199, 209
Kant, Immanuel, 21–22, 53, 66, 162–65
karoshi, 157
Kasparov, Garry, 219
Kierkegaard, Søren, 41–44, 128
kireji, 43
KKK, 22
Kluge (Marcus), 171
Kuhn, Thomas S., 4
Le Bon, Gustave, 178
Lil’ Marco, 25
Lincoln, Abraham, 56
linguistic kill shots, 25
Loch Ness Monster, 221
logic, 7, 11, 19, 41, 48–53, 71–79, 85–86, 96–98
modal, 149–152
Low-energy Jeb, 25
luck, 51–52
Lyin’ Ted, 25
“Make America Great Again”
(campaign slogan), 25, 28, 95
male chauvinism, 106–111
Malevich, Kazimir, 56
management, 32, 37–39, 76, 89, 116, 120, 127, 130–36, 146, 152
manager, 32, 37–39, 76, 120, 130, 132, 136, 146
manga, 40
manufacturing, 90–95
market, 195
marketing, 32–33, 47–48, 163, 179
Marx, Karl H., 156, 195, 212
Marxism, 156, 195, 212
Master Persuader, 3–13, 15–23, 26, 53–54, 89, 174, 176, 185
The Matrix (movie), 110, 202, 211–15
McCain, John, 22, 88
meaning, 11, 32, 42–44, 82, 114, 116, 128–29, 152–160, 162–65, 175, 195, 217–220
Meinong, Alexius, 152
Meinongianism, 152–53
Melville, Herman, 56
men’s rights movement, 103–111
metaphysics, 134, 136, 147–154, 208
Metaphysics (Aristotle), 149
Microsoft, 60, 65
Mill, John Stuart, 119–121
moist robots, 10, 12, 170, 177–78, 183
Morpheus (Matrix character), 211–15
MSNBC, 89
Muslim ban, 18, 85, 95
My Job, My Self (Gini), 159
The Myth of Sisyphus (Camus), 129
The Myth of the Closed Mind (Percival), 99, 174
NAFTA, 91
necessity, 144, 153
Neo (Matrix character), 211–15
Newton, Isaac, 176
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), 51, 138
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 129
Nineteen Eighty-Four (Orwell), 83
Nussbaum, Martha, 122
Obama, Barack, 20, 31, 62, 83, 85, 88, 91–95, 99
Obamacare, 92
Ockham, William of, 55–64, 76
Ockham’s [or Occam’s] Razor, 76
off-shoring, 93–94
On the Concept of Irony (Kierkegaard), 42
Orwell, George, 28
The Outsider [or The Stranger] (Camus), 128
Pavlov, Ivan Petrovich, 178–79
Peanuts, x
Percival, Ray Scott, 99, 169–183
persuasion, 4–13, 15–25, 53–54, 78, 80, 81, 89, 94–99, 169, 194
Phil, 64
Pickering, Keith, 187
Plato, 6–8, 10, 22, 114–15, 156, 200
Pocahontas (Elizabeth Warren), 25
Pointy-Haired Boss, 47, 57–59, 64–66, 71, 119–120, 123–24, 127, 133–34, 158, 160–61, 165, 197
Popper, Karl R., 97–98, 179–191
possible worlds, 149–153
The Postman (character in God’s Debris), 199–208
PowerPoint, 55–67
Pow Wow Chow (Native American Cookbook), 26
Predictably Irrational (Ariely), 170
predictive success, 22–23, 97–98, 190
Pre-Suasion (Cialdini), 179
Putin, Vladimir, 30, 62–63
rational, humans as, 11–13, 22–23, 53–54, 71–72, 86, 96–99, 105, 109, 115, 129–136, 141, 144, 163, 169–176, 177–183, 187
rationalism, 180–81, 187–196
red pill, 211–15
Reinhart and Rogoff controversy, 74–75, 78
Republican Party, ix–x, 4, 21, 26, 85, 98
reshoring, 93–94
rhetoric, 3–13, 98, 105, 111, 222
rhetorosphere, 26
Rivera, Julietta (cartoonist), 102–03
robots, 10–12, 156, 160, 165, 170, 177–78, 183, 218
ruling class, 43, 72, 94, 115
Rust Belt, 31, 89–95
Sanders, Bernie, xi, 4, 94–95
Sartre, Jean-Paul, 140
satire, 37–40, 47, 160
science, 4, 11, 49, 57, 72–76, 122, 170, 180, 186–192, 195–97, 203–09, 221
scientific method, 186–192, 195–97, 203–09, 221
The Scientist in the Crib (Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl), 177
The Second Sex (Beauvoir), 102
Selz. Otto, 179
sexual harassment, 102
Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign (Allen and Parnes), 225
simulation, living in a, 211–15
Socrates, 3–11, 41–45, 51, 199–200
sophists, 3, 6–13, 54, 192
Soviet Union, 61–62
Spicer, Sean, 83
spin, political, 59–60
Stein, Jill, 94
stereotype, 78, 109–110, 127
Stoics, 182
Strauss, Leo, 43
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), 4
stupidity, 57, 62–67, 116, 127, 141–42, 170, 185–197
surplus-value, 212
Sway (Brafman and Brafman), 170–71
talent stack, x, 20–21
tariffs, 89, 92
Tax Cuts and Jobs Bill, 89
Ted, 120–23
Terkel, Studs, 155
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahnemann), 170–74
Tina, 101, 112, 123, 158, 162
Todd, Chuck, 83, 227
Tricks of the Mind (Brown), 5
Trinity (Matrix character), 211–15
Trump, Donald J., ix–xi, 3–5, 10–13, 15–23, 25–33, 53–54, 62–65, 79–80, 81–99, 160, 171, 177, 215
truth, 7–9, 19, 30, 38–54, 63–6, 83, 94, 97, 137–140, 145, 149, 160, 170, 176, 180, 187–89, 204–09
Twitter, 60–62, 65–67, 189
unconscious, 29, 78–79, 90, 169–174, 181, 205–07, 213–223
The US Manufacturing Renaissance, 93
veterans, 92
Wally, 48, 58–59, 64, 120–23, 127, 132–33, 155–57, 165
Warren, Elizabeth,
25–26
Watergate, 16
Weaver, Richard, 9
Wesleyan Media Project, 90, 94
What Computers Still Can’t Do (Dreyfus), 219
Whipping Star (Herbert), 221
white-collar workplace, 37–45, 157
White House, 32, 88
Wilson, Thomas, 9
Win Bigly (Adams), xii, 4–5, 11, 15, 18, 25, 28, 53, 78–80, 84, 89, 96, 169, 171, 181, 211, 216
winning, 4, 16–17, 51–52, 127, 194
Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 188–190
The Woman in the Red Dress (Matrix character), 211–15
women’s issues, 101–112
working, 155–165
workplace, 37–45, 124, 130–33, 160, 165
Yeltsin, Boris, 62
YouTube, 189