Michael E. Marotta as Processed by Google Gemini NotebookLM

I started with the latest of very many resumes that I enjoy writing and I gave it to Gemini to rewrite. I took that new resume and directed Gemini to rewrite it against four posts about technical writing from this blog. This is the AI's first pass. I am editing a new version.

Michael E. Marotta
Technical Communicator & Data Architect

Kyle, Texas | 734-223-9054 | books78640@gmail.com 

LinkedIn Profile - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike7marotta/ 

Technical Editorial Portfolio - https://had.aas.org/resources/astro-history

Observations on Automation, Accuracy, and the Evolution of Knowledge 

Michael E. Marotta is an experienced technical writer and editor. His resume details a diverse background in industrial automation, aerospace documentation, and automotive technology, as well as his expertise in using artificial intelligence to manage complex data. Complementing his formal credentials, Marotta's personal blog explores a wide range of interests including amateur astronomy, literature, and ancestral history. The combined texts portray an individual who balances high-stakes technical accuracy with a deep passion for scientific inquiry and lifelong learning. Overall, the collection serves as a comprehensive portrait of a communicator dedicated to explaining emerging technologies and objective truths.

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I could talk for 50 minutes about this slide.

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THE MANIFESTO: A PROFESSIONAL PROFILE

I understand technical writing—procedures, plans, policies—as stories because when a machine operator faces a crisis, reading a meter becomes a socially impactful event. My career is a commitment to documenting the evolution of autonomous and intelligent systems, seeking truths that are perceivable and reasonable, empirical and logical. With over 20 years of experience, I serve as a technical editor and data manager, ensuring that complex systems remain rational and accessible. My expertise ranges from hardwiring Zilog processors in the early 1990s to the ethical "gathering" of insights from modern Generative AI.

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CHRONICLES OF EXPERIENCE: OBSERVATIONS ON INDUSTRY

University of Texas (Austin) | Parking Enforcement Officer | 09/2023 – Present In this role, I coordinate with AI-driven identity tracking systems to manage the equitable allocation of 13,000 vehicle-specific records for a population of 79,000 users. I treat database integrity as a necessary fact, interpreting complex regulations to ensure the system remains logic-proof and efficient.

American Astronomical Society | Editor | 02/2020 – 12/2024 Serving as a technical editor for a scientific body, I solicited, edited, and approved submissions, adhering to rigorous standards of quality assurance. I built SharePoint delivery systems to streamline the editorial process, ensuring that the history of discovery is documented with absolute data accuracy.

Green Revolution Cooling, Inc. | Senior Technical Writer | 08/2022 – 02/2023 I applied critical thinking to create product release notes and operations instructions for high-capacity immersion cooling systems. I wrote for an international and transnational readership, recognizing that the best way to make a "story" stop is often a well-documented "Ctrl-Z".

Austin Community College | Instructional Designer | 07/2021 – 11/2021 I developed a textbook on Optics and Lasers for the Advanced Manufacturing department. My goal was to create a midrange guide that integrated clear narratives with the relevant and necessary mathematics of electromagnetic radiation.

EOS North America | Senior Technical Writer | 07/2019 – 04/2021 Documenting additive manufacturing (3-D printing) systems for aerospace and medical applications, I conducted investigations into newly developed mechanical, electronic, and optical components of selective laser sintering (SLS) machinery.

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PREVIOUSLY ON THE CAREER PATH: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS

• Kapsch TrafficCom USA (2018): Interpreted complex design specifications for highway tolling solutions, including electro-mechanical and optical sensor systems.
• Carl Zeiss IMT (1997–1998): Translated German manufacturer specifications for high-precision optical gauges used in General Motors quality assurance.
• Kawasaki Robotics (1991–1993): Translated complex parts lists from Japanese to English and delivered technical training in robot operations and programming for Ford Motor assembly plants.

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CORE COMPETENCIES & INTELLECTUAL TOOLS

• Data & Editorial: High-Volume Data Entry, Peer Review, OEM Data Interpretation, and Quality Assurance.
• The Scientific Method: Proving intuitive insights through rigorous testing so that others can replicate the work.
• Technology & AI: Proficiency in Google Gemini/ChatGPT, MS Excel, Jira, Salesforce, and Content Management Systems (SharePoint/Confluence).
• Critical Literacy: Navigating the ecosystem of pseudographic simulations and ensuring digital literacy in the age of AI impersonation.

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THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE: EDUCATION

• Master of Arts, Social Science | Eastern Michigan University.
• Bachelor of Science, Criminology (Summa cum Laude) | Eastern Michigan University.
• Continuing Education: Introduction to Generative AI (LinkedIn Learning, 2024); Introduction to Astrophysics (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, 2021).

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COMMUNITY SERVICE & PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

• Greater Austin Regional Science and Engineering Fair: Administering professional academic peer-review standards for research.
• ArmadilloCon: Planning and delivery committee for literary conventions involving professional editors.
• OWASP: Contributed to the planning committee for computer security conferences.

PREVIOUSLY ON NECESSARY FACTS

Forbidden Planet

For the Glory of Old Lincoln High 

Hurricane Harvey 

Love, Loss, and Redemption in Atlas Shrugged 

One Million Pageviews

Because I get paid to write what other people want, I write whatever I want here. And I am cognizant of the fact that other people read this. I put the URL on business contact cards and in email signature blocks. Lately, more hiring applications ask for links to portfolios and other social presence. Now, I more carefully inspect my attire before I step out into public spaces. Some market decision-maker might not like my opinions but they would find out the truth eventually. So, we are better off not starting a relationship. 

And I do take pride in writing what other people need. I love the craft of writing. I understand technical writing—procedures, plans, policies—as stories because if a machine operator has to call their boss at 4:00 AM, then reading a meter can be socially impactful, and maybe the best way to make the story stop is to hit ctrl-z. 

Last Seven Days Most Popular Posts and Locations

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Top Referrering URLs Past 12 Months

One common phrase used against AIs is they are “scraping the web” and not being truly creative. “Scraping” sounds bad. I prefer the word “gathering.” The word “harvesting” implies “planting” or “seeding” and for that, we have no evidence, but gather—not scrape—is what they do. It is likely that many of the million pages viewed were touched by non-sentient programs, gathering information. Some of those might have been malicious seekers of exploitable vulnerabilities. That is why NecessaryFacts is closed to comments. I also rely on Google’s Red Team/Blue Team because when we lived in Ann Arbor, some of our colleagues in user groups touted their reward payments from Google for finding those vulns.

PREVIOUSLY ON NECESSARY FACTS

Supplies and Demands 

Money as a Crusoe Concept 

Mutiny Aboard the San Antonio 

Shifting the Paradigm of Private Security 

Why I Served 

Sex, Gender, and Newspeak

Looking for work (as I am wont to do), I was taken to a Canadian website and wanted to leave them a message in their Contact form and I faced this:

 The company was Sprypoint in Prince Edward Island. I would loved to have seen this
in French, but I could not find a francophone form on their website.

Even back in the 1960s, science fiction suggested species with more than two sexes. Since then, we have decoupled gender from sex. Gender is grammatical; sex is biological. And even before there were seven billion humans on Terra-1, hermaphrodites happened. Now we call them "intersex." And, now, we all have the right to choose our genders within those sexes. The problem with nine pronouns is that we have no social linguistics to support it.

We learn language by hearing it and repeating it. You heard the tones, rhythms, and accents of your native language before you were born. You did not learn it by reading a grammar and copying out the declensions. Until people start talking like this, there is no way to enforce it. In the second declension, why is the possessive of the second person singular hir and not zir or zer? And who decided this?

I do not know French well enough to help them out with this, but if this were German, I would suggest: er, sie, es;  ger, gie, ges; zer, zie, zes; fer, fie, fes; and so on.

Note, also that they allow a Custom choice: you can make up your own. How you enforce that (or any of this) without a name tag is difficult to imagine. If we may craft our own appellations, then I like the clicks of Xhosa and other Bantu languages. 

"Hello, 

I am Michael

!e, !im, !is." 

However, I can see where that might cause some people to yell back at me. 

PREVIOUSLY ON NECESSARY FACTS

Reflections on Sex and Gender

Linguistics Debate: What Colors are Your Rainbow 

The Living Fish Swims Under Water 

As You Speak So You Think 

The Panopticon Overrules Active Fire

The death of Renee Good in Minneapolis on 7 January 2026 was unnecessary. As the subsequent news stories show, we live in the Panopticon, a society of all-seeing authority. Theorized 1785-1791 by Jeremy Bentham as a design for prisons, the conceptual model was expanded by Michel Foucault in his book Discipline and Punish (1975). The "authority" need not be legalistic, but can be (and often is) social. Cameras are everywhere. Therefore, the police practices of active engagement and relentless pursuit are antiquated and largely irrelevant.

Criminologists Marcus Felson and Lawrence Cohen published their "routine activity theory" in 1979. It found common acceptance and, of course, criticism. The elements of crime are a (1) willing perpetrator (2) an available victim and (3) the absence of a capable guardian. The theories of community policing rest in part on the fact that the "capable guardian" might need only to be a grandmother in a rocking chair on the front porch as a visible deterrent, 

The known failures of eye witness testimony are now countered by the plurality of immediate independent recordings. 

In 2006, while earning an associate's degree in criminal justice, I was working the night shift as a campus security officer at Washtenaw Community College. My partner had completed his bachelor's at Eastern Michigan University and had returned to WCC for their MCOLES academy. (The standards are commonly required and are TCOLE here in Texas.) I had viewed a training video from the Los Angeles police department on relentless pursuit. You are on patrol with your partner and you pull up to a jewelry store being robbed. The criminals open fire. Your partner goes down. They jump in their car and drive off. What do you do next? LAPD said that you pursue. You call for medical attention for your partner, but you do not stay there. LAPD advocated relentless pursuit. My partner's voice was bitter. "Thanks, Mike. Now I know where you stand." But what about relentless pursuit? I asked. "Look," he replied. "In this day you cannot harm any protective service, not even a school crossing guard, and not have every law enforcement agency after you. Where are you going to go?" 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing_of_Ren%C3%A9e_Good

That underscores another fact about punishment as a deterrent to crime. Punishment has three aspects: swift, certain, and severe. All that counts is "certain." If a perpetrator is conscious of the fact that they will be punished, if certainty is assured, the crime does not happen. Yes, there are exceptions, especially when emotions are high in the heat of the moment. But premeditated crime is prevented by the certainty of punishment: If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Severity is not just unimportant: it is counter-productive because publicity of severe punishment (public hangings, for example) only cause more violence later as the witnesses are affected by the violent event.

That fact explains so-called copycat crimes and the repetition and expansion of violent acts that are widely publicized, such as shootings at schools, or spontaneous protests. Violence becomes normal. 

The normalization of violence was also factor in the actions of ICE agent Jonathan Ross, who as of this date was identified as the officer who killed Renee Good. Ross began his career as a soldier in Iraq, just as very many other police officers have served in the armed forces before wearing a badge. The problem is that the civilian police perceive themselves and then become an occupying army surrounded by a hostile populace.    

Community policing and community courts are common remedies offered by academic criminologists and sociologists. As with Granny in the rocker, there is empirical truth underlying the theories. One problem with community policing is that it makes everyone an informant for the State. This is the underlying power of the totalitarian regime which rules because the populace practices habitual self-enforcement. Things are quiet because there is no liberty.

Previously on Necessary Facts

Eye Witness Testimony: Popper, Wittgenstein, and the Innocence Project 

Alternatives to Prison Part 3 of 3 

Integrating Criminologies 

Minimizing the Likelihood of Bad Cops 

Christmas 2025

Anything worth doing is worthy of over-doing and here in Kyle we light up our neighborhoods and our downtown square. 

Official Snapshot from the City. 
It is just a teaser.

I took these pictures.

A passing friend took this for us.

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Christmas 2024

Halloween 2022 on Brandi Circle

MERRY NEWTONMAS 2025

Sir Isaac Newton was born on Christmas Day 1642. Following the Gregorian calendar, Newtonmas would be on January 4. One advantage to keeping the traditional date is that this coincides the year of Galileo's with the year of Newton's birth. Growing up in Cleveland, Ohio, many of my friends were Ukrainians and others whose churches kept the old Julian calendar, giving some of the kids two dates for presents. (It also explains Tom Clancy’s Red October, even though the Bolshevik phase of the 1917 Revolution began on November 7.)

THE LEGEND OF THE MARTIANS 

György Marx (Eötvös University Department of Atomic Physics)

There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: humans and Hungarians. (Isaac Asimov)

The story is here from Page 116 forward.
Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 1994, 1997, 2001

- Enrico Fermi was an outstanding talent who was interested in many things besides nuclear physics. He was also known for asking famous questions. Fermi questions have a long introductory text, for example: - "The Universe is vast, with billions of stars, many of them similar to our Sun. Planets may also orbit many stars. A significant proportion of these planets may have liquid water and a gaseous atmosphere on their surfaces. The light from the star may have triggered the synthesis of organic compounds on them, turning the ocean into a thin, warm soup. The carbon compounds linked together to create self-reproducing structures. The simplest living things reproduce, develop through natural selection, become increasingly complex, and eventually develop into active thinking beings. Civilization, science, and technology develop. Longing for new and fresh worlds, they travel to neighboring planets, later to planets of nearby stars, and thus spread throughout the Galaxy. Such highly developed, talented peoples can hardly ignore this beautiful planet, Earth. - And then Fermi he came to his essential question:  - If all this is true, then where are they?

Szilárd Leó had a good sense of humor, and he answered Fermi's rhetoric this way:

- They are here among us, but they call themselves Hungarians.

Online in Hungarian at the HUNGARIAN ELECTRONIC LIBRARY / MAGYAR ELEKTRONIKUS KÖNYVTÁR

https://mek.oszk.hu/03200/03286/html/tudos1/marsl.html 

I cut and pasted it into Google Translate to provide the text above. 

PREVIOUSLY ON NECESSARY FACTS

Still Riding the Gray Planet 

Star Trek Discovery and the Conflict of Values 

Monsters from the Id

A Numismatic History of Hungary 

ArmadilloCon 47 - Part 3

However scholars argue the origins of science fiction, it cannot have preceded science. Although the word "science" as referring to some area of knowledge was used from the late Middle Ages and early Renaissance, it was only at the first meeting of the British Association of the Advancement of Science on June 24, 1833, that William Whewell answered a challenge from Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and spontaneously offered the word “scientist.” Mary Shelley's Frankenstein is often suggested as a science fiction story. However, for his "Introduction" to Hackett Publishing Co., Inc.'s 2020 republication of the 1818 manuscript, David Wooton cited Mary Shelley's feather pen as supporting evidence for the lack of science in the story.

Among the first panels on Friday night at ArmadilloCon 47 was "Speculative Geology" and among the last was "Space Tries to Kill You" chaired by NASA trainer Bill Frank. Between those two pillars the convention also provided a range of engagements for readers and writers of scifi, fantasy, horror, and other alternative genres. On that note, it has been said that scifi is the modern genre of fiction and what others call "mainstream fiction" is historical fiction set in the present. 

In Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy drew a contrast between those on the East Coast and  those on the West. Centered on Boston, one group created the video game "Spacewar" whereas the hackers around San Francisco built J. R. R. Tolkien's world into Adventure programs that became Dungeons & Dragons. Today, fantasy, science fiction, horror, and gaming are all to be found at ArmadilloCon. 

This year the gaming was in Room 102 with four events. 

• Alta Curia - based on "12 Angry Men"
• Nicky Drayden's "Prosper with Dragons"
• Not Today, Murder
• Jess Nevin's "Fury of the Norsemen"

Previous ArmadilloCons have been gamier, among them

• https://www.armadillocon.org/d36/gaming.shtml 
• https://www.armadillocon.org/d29/gaming/index.htm
• https://www.fact.org/dillo/d20/gaming.html

In the ArmadilloCon Dealers Room,
the premiere convention in central Texas for
tabletop role-playing and board games. 
May 29-31, 2026
https://tabletop.events/conventions/chupacabracon-xii

I met Heidi Kasa while I was working the Registration Desk. The next day, she stopped by again to hand me her card. She said that she was here for the flash fiction. (Two events - Thunderdome at 9:00 PM on Friday and Space Squid at 1:00 PM Saturday.) 

The Bullet Takes Forever

On her website she writes:

The Bullet Takes Forever is a collection of poems facing “America’s culture of mass shootings.” The poems range from processing a mother's personal experiences with active shooter situations to philosophical, psychological, and linguistic explorations of gun violence. At turns yearning, vulnerable, and fierce, this collection resonates with readers who feel the effects of rising gun violence and the need for increased safety measures. Poems from this collection won the Plaza Prose Poetry 2024 Prize and the Poetry Super Highway 2023 Prize, and were also chosen as a finalist for the ESWA Crossroads Contest 2024. 

 

Nothing expresses your preferences in subcultures like a t-shirt. Unfortunately for the merchant, they are nearly non-perishable and surely non-consumable. I probably have 30 and if I wear a different one every day, how often will I bring a new one into the rotation? 

Pegasus Publishing travels to 35 shows a year.
I bought the design that he is wearing --
42: Life, Universe, Everything -- 
for Laurel.
https://pegasuspublishing.com/

I have three from Pegasus,: Don't Panic, a Periodic Table, and Book Wyrm. Book Wyrm is the best. Made in Haiti by Gildan, the material is heavy for a T-shirt, more like an athletic T. It is 100% cotton. The screen printing is bright and has proved durable. It wears well at the local public library. 

More books have resulted from somebody's need to write than from anybody's need to read. -- Ashleigh Brilliant.

Kurt and Michelle met in college playing
Dungeons & Dragons.
Kurt has served on the FACT Board
and been our Fan Guest of Honor.
He invited me to attend ArmadilloCon several times
before I understood the message.

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Star Trek (Not too Far) Beyond 

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Psychohistory from Asimov’s Foundation to Big Data

Psychohistory had no academic definition before Isaac Asimov penned his Foundation Trilogy 1942-1953. In the 1970s the academic pursuit of psychohistory began as the application of psychoanalysis (Freud) to explain of the events of history. Alternate meaning came from attempting to explain individual psychology in terms of historical context. Eventually, in our time of big data and artificial intelligence, Asimov’s intention of a mathematical treatment of large scale historical events is a real though still putative pursuit. It is an easy claim (1 below) that no doctoral research program in history includes “psychohistory” in the title. 

Nevertheless, Asimov's intention has been understood. See for example, "Towards Asimov's Psychohistory: Harnessing Topological Data Analysis, Artificial Intelligence and Social Media Data to Forecast Societal Trends" by Isabela Rocha, Institute of Political Science of the University of Brasilia. (https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.03446 and as edited arXiv:2407.03446v1 ) Rocha wrote: "In the age of big data and advanced computational methods, the prediction of large-scale social behaviors, reminiscent of Isaac Asimov's fictional science of Psychohistory, is becoming increasingly feasible." 

In addition, biologist and systems researcher Salva Duran-Nebreda also found Asimov's suggestion compelling: "Recent advances in complex systems research, computer-based simulations, and large-scale databases, are paving the way towards fully developing a mathematical theory of human history." ("Rashevsky’s dream: A physico-mathematical foundation of history and culture," Metode Science Studies Journal, Issue 13.)

Before the Renaissance, the depiction of a better world was always a previous golden age. This is in the Old Testament and it is in Hesiod’s Works and Days. Only with the Renaissance did there come a new idea: that we could create a better society. At root, the idea was a resurrection of Plato’s Republic but it soon became more than that because different philosophers had other ideas of what constituted a good society. Moreover, a causal vector in the rise of capitalism came from predictive mathematics. The exploration of gambling outcomes by Fermat and Pascal led quickly to the monetization and fungibility of risk. The statistical likelihood of future events was predictable — and therefore (theoretically) controllable. 

Asimov’s Foundation Trilogy was a child of its own time. Personal criticism of Asimov comes from his actions toward women at science fiction conventions and other gatherings. He, too, was a child of his time. First, science fiction of the Golden Age was a medium for boys. Girls were interested in science, of course, and political leaders with foresight encouraged an influx of young women into university science classes. (See “The Legacy of Vannevar Bush (Part 3)” published here June 1, 2025.) The primary actors in the Foundation Trilogy are men. Deeper than that, in  Foundation and Empire (1952; originally, book two in the series) when Bayta Darrell attempts to outline her analysis of Foundation politics to her husband, his father, and uncle, Toran Darrell leans over and  puts his hand over her mouth.

The Industrial Revolution was the cultural shift that created and allowed science fiction itself as apart from fable. Jules Verne and H. G. Wells were preceded by John Leonard Riddell, inventor of the binocular microscope, professor of chemistry, working geologist and botanist, and author and publisher of Orrin Lindsay’s Plan of Aerial Navigation, with a Narrative of His Explorations in the Higher Regions of the Atmosphere, and His Wonderful Voyage Round the Moon! (Rea's Power Press, New Orleans, 1847) (Cited on NecessaryFacts here.) Orrin Lindsay and his companion, an instrument maker, are both men, of course. A hundred years later, the world was changing. Many women science fiction authors hid their sex with pseudonyms, but others did not. 

Of course, previous science fiction placed its conflicts in worlds with troubles: no troubles; no story. Nonetheless, foundational to that was a general optimism that the future would evolve and be ever-better. H. G. Wells warned twice that the coming World War Two would bring an end to civilization. But it was ultimately only a temporary pause. He knew that some people would follow a would-be tyrant and rally against a rocket into outer space, but into the cosmos do go the rocket and the young couple. 

Two years ago (almost to date), I was having my stem cells harvested and ahead of that to pass the time while the tubes were in, I bought an armload of science fiction books at ArmadilloCon 45. Ecological disaster is the new normal. And unlike the science fiction of the Golden Age solving the problem does not create a better world—because the problem does not get solved. They just all go down the drain together. 

Hari Seldon was right: the intellectual leaders of our empire of science fiction cannot imagine a world other than the one they know. To even label the years 1941 to 1965, the “Golden Age of science fiction” is to admit the poverty of the present. And yet, I was, indeed, having my stem cells harvested.

Contrary to that Asimov’s own creation of the word “psychohistory” launched the academic studies that also use that name. 

The Journal of Psychohistory has been publishing quarterly since 1973, originally as The History of Childhood Quarterly and since 1976 as The Journal of Psychohistory. It is somewhat unique in the world of academic publishing in being one of very few journals not published by a large publishing house or by a University Press, subsidized by university funds. It has been independently published by Lloyd deMause for more than 40 years.

    The JOP has been a place where many authors have been able to see their work published in more than 800 articles, as well a several hundred book reviews and review essays. We welcome contributions to a new section that will run from time to time, Psychohistorical Perspective on Current Events.

    Recent issues include articles such as: A “Backward Engineering” view into how atrocities can be performed mechanistically and without feeling or guilt, how Politics Can Be Seen as Reflecting Borderline Polarization, The Spanish and Portuquese Inquisition’s methods to uncover hidden beliefs and motivations, The Tea Party and the Recent Rise of Right-Wing racism, Mass Incarceration and American Racism, Slavery’s Transgenerational Impact on Southern Personality, and the Unconscious Wishes behind Nuclear Armaments and Wars. -- The Journal of Psychohistory https://psychohistory.com/the-journal-of-psychohistory/

I identify that as postmodernist with the attendant problems inherent in the academic culture of anti-capitalism, anti-individualism, anti-reason. They dominate, but they do not control. Here at the University of Texas, I have my quibbles with the Salem Institute and the other fans of Ayn Rand at the McCombs School of Business but here they are, doing their best to keep the syllogisms and money flowing. 

Psychohistory

Psychohistory uses psychoanalytical theory and sociological research methods to examine the psychological origins and motivations for the social and political behavior of significant individuals, groups, and nations, both past and present, as well as psychological aspects of historical and current events. The goal of psychohistory is to understand the causes of human destructiveness and benevolence.

Psychohistory attempts to understand how historical and current events are shaped by individual and group psychologies, as well as how the past and the present influence the psychologies of individuals and groups. 

Early influential works of psychohistory include Wilhelm Reich's The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933) and Erich Fromm's Escape from Freedom (1941), which examined psychological motivations behind political ideologies. Eric Erikson's biography of Martin Luther, Young Man Luther: A Study in Psychoanalysis and History (1958), was one of the first psychobiographies of a famous historical figure, and many contemporary biographies now include aspects of psychobiography. Lloyd deMause (1931–2020) is widely viewed as the founder of psychohistory as a formal academic discipline, beginning in the 1970s. Psychohistory, however, remains controversial, and many traditional historians are reluctant to attribute major human events to the psychology of individuals or groups. -- “Psychohistory,” in The Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology, Editor Jacqueline L. Longe, Vol. 2. 4^th ed.

See also:

• (1) "The Dilemmas of Psychohistory," Fuchsman, Ken. The Journal of Psychohistory (Vol 47. Number 3, Winter 2020). 
• "Remembering the future: science and positivism from Isaac Asimov to Gregory Benford,"Extrapolation (Vol. 39, Issue 2), Kent State University Press.
• "The Origins of Inspiration: Winwood Reade's role in the foundation of Isaac Asimov's psychohistory," LaBounty, David. Extrapolation (Vol. 39. Issue 4), Kent State University Press.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_(novel_series)
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data
• https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Foundation_series
• https://asimov.fandom.com/wiki/Seldon_Crisis
• "The Computational Power of a Human Society: a New Model of Social Evolution," Wolpert, David; Harper, Kyle. Cliodynamics, 2025-05, Vol.16 (1)

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