Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.

“Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.”

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

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…

We Thrash About…

“Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the precise place and hour. We have created a Star Wars civilization, with Stone Age emotions, medieval institutions, and godlike technology. We thrash…

You don’t build a movement, the movement builds you.

“You don’t build a movement, the movement builds you.”

— Charles Eisenstein

The price of apathy…

“The price of apathy toward public affairs is to be ruled by evil men”

— Plato

The world is changed…

“The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion.”

— Paulo Coelho

Cut It Out…

“Liberalism is a guy saying “cut it out” while a boot stamps on a human face — forever.”

— Carl Beijer