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The Safety Control Delusion

February 22, 2019 by Dr Rob Long 9 Comments

The Safety Control Delusion One of the profound realizations of parenting is that you cannot control your own children. One of the stark realizations of marriage is that you cannot control your partner. Yet, here is Safety pushing all this delusional nonsense about ‘controlling’ others. There is a … [Read more...] about The Safety Control Delusion

Filed Under: Compliance, Robert Long, Social Psychology of Risk Tagged With: control, delusion, neurophysiology

Courage to Challenge the Great TRIFR and LTIFR Delusion

November 29, 2016 by Dr Rob Long 1 Comment

Courage to Challenge the Great TRIFR and LTIFR Delusion It was Marx (The German Ideology) who said ‘as individuals express their life, so they are’. At the heart of this aphorism is the idea that what is normalized in a culture comprises what the culture is. One of the things that have become … [Read more...] about Courage to Challenge the Great TRIFR and LTIFR Delusion

Filed Under: Robert Long, Safety Statistics, Social Psychology of Risk, Zero Harm Tagged With: delusion, lti, LTIFR, trifr

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