Social Evolution

Social systems, like money, evolve in a similar way to living organisms. Money has changed from Gold to Metal Coins to Paper, Plastic, Electronic, and Crypto. Money is a means of exchange, a store of wealth, and a unit of exchange. It has also evolved into a generator of wealth…

Social learning is to ideas what natural selection is to genes. Both are ways of picking out good solutions from a sea of variety. Mark Pagel — Wired for Culture. With culturally appropriate capital allocation rules, Public Capital is the most productive way to invest. …

The Tribe is Gathering Like minded, peace loving, freedom seeking people are finding each other by filtering out the trolls, liars, manipulators, propagandists, narcissists, and hoarders from our physical and virtual networks. The problem is the powers that be demand control of everyone and everything. Therefore, gathering in our own…

We need the illusion. We need everything to be alright. Daniel Goldblatt, a writer for The Wrap, shared this entry regarding Nell Scovell — a writer/producer whose credits include “The Simpsons,” “Murphy Brown” and “Charmed” — [he remembered] debating with Gloria Steinem over whether you can joke about rape. “She…

This is my confession letter. I am a conspiracy theorist. Being a conspiracy theorist, I have allowed myself to contemplate some pretty silly, some pretty far-fetched, but always some interestingly plausible theories. In this search, I have discovered some very intriguing facts. My allegation is that we have a cabal…

My grandfather was an active and proud Republican; he was also a little bit racist. Not N-word racist (that would be my biological father), but it was pretty clear he saw people of color as lesser individuals, and problematic as a community. …

“Supporting Donald Trump, who is arguably the embodiment of sin, requires resolution of a huge case of cognitive dissonance.” An insightful tweet from a neuroscientist. And so we mix religious concepts with brain theory. It works. This idea maelstrom we’re enduring and some people are trying to evade was inevitable…