We need to work on our emotions. You are absolutely correct. In fact that is a logical point(?!). And that raises another issue: We seem very reluctant to deal with emotional health in politics. We all know the pattern of manipulation is to trigger fear and negative emotions as the most…
The instability of paradigmatic change may well be the one thing we cannot conquer or endure. I’ve studied this, lived it and helped cause it for forty years. The very years that accelerated the acceleration itself to the point that a significant portion…
Thank you for taking the time and making the effort to go through such a sad document. You do a good job of pointing out the most obvious absurdities in the Randian world. These are only used as cover by Ryan in his attempt to restore hypercapitalism as it collapses. The goal is to ensure that all wealth moves to the oligarchs who will then ensure…
I suppose that if you squint one eye and close the other with your head cocked a certain way you can see a future for the US political system. The last hope was Bernie in 2016 but even that would have only produced a nicer cripple rather than monster cripple we got. The work on millennial statistics is very good but they are disconnected because they…
Good article and great fun. The responses have a few high points also once you ignore the folks huffing and puffing while they inspect their sacred cows for damage. I’m embarrassed by the number of those.
Yes, this is reductionist but I thought that was the stated intent. What can we learn if we remove the “mystery” and see…
I’m trying to make myself feel better by writing this. Achieving Type I status as a civilization just got pushed out a ways, I’m afraid. That, of course, is relative and the result of living in the US and watching the collapse of the…
We need to add post-socialist to post-capitalist and post-nation state. None of these mean the disappearance of shared governance, market economics or management of human societies. They mean a different set of values, tools and goals in the post-industrial age just as that means robotic takeover of industrial production. One things missing in this…
