World War III is a guerrilla information war…

“World War III is a guerrilla information war with no division between military and civilian participation.”

— Marshall McLuhan, “Culture Is Our Business”, 1970, p. 66

Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

— Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

…the most potent antidote to cynicism…

“Life, like the universe itself, tolerates no stasis — in the absence of growth, decay usurps the order. Like all forms of destruction, cynicism is infinitely easier and lazier than construction. There is nothing more difficult yet more gratifying in our society…

Counter-culture comes about when…

“A member of an archaic culture who acknowledges the limits of his own model and compares it to the one that is being formed as an alternative, from inside or outside his model, is creating…. in a positive sense, ‘counter-culture.’ Counter-culture is thus the active…

The Building Blocks of Economic Complexity

“As people and firms specialize in different activities, economic efficiency increases, suggesting that development is associated with an increase in the number of individual activities and with the complexity that emerges from the interactions between…

A Great Variety of Morbid Symptoms

“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.”

— Antonio Gramsci, English translation Selections from the Prison Notebooks, “Wave of…

Community is the smallest unit of health…

“I believe that the community — in the fullest sense: a place and all its creatures — is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms.”

— Wendell Berry

Every Decrease in Power is an Open Invitation to Violence

“Again, we do not know where these developments will lead us, but we know, or should know, that every decrease in power is an open invitation to violence — if only because those who hold power and feel it slipping from their…

The fear of diversity is a fear of disorder…

“The fear of diversity is a fear of disorder; if that diversity leads by nature into order, there is nothing to fear.”

— Arlene Saxonhouse, The Fear of Diversity,p. 192

“The maintenance of organization in nature is not — and cannot be — achieved by central management; order can only be maintained by self-organization. Self-organizing systems allow adaptation to the prevailing environment, i.e., they react to changes in the environment with a thermodynamic response which makes the system extraordinarily flexible and…