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Illinois Politicians Are Doubling Down on Failure
Illinois Politicians Are Doubling Down on Failure In the face of a fleeing population, politicians in Illinois are doubling down on the policies that are driving people away in the first place. When I did a poll earlier this year, asking which state would be the first to suffer a fiscal crisis, I wasn’t terribly surprised that Illinois […]
Why We Don’t Have Principled Politicians
Why We Don’t Have Principled Politicians Politicians choose their stances on issues based on public opinion, not principles. Recently, Senator Chuck Schumer introduced a bill that would decriminalize marijuana on the federal level. He stated that the legality of marijuana should be a matter left up to individual states. This ringing endorsement of federalism might […]
Storm warnings
Storm warnings Image: Tom Gill, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 “The test of science is its ability to predict” — Richard Feynman As if governed by some deterministic law, the current debates between economists and critics follow a predictable path. Critics begin by mentioning the failure of economists to predict or warn of the crisis. Howard Reed […]
1984 Is Not The Future
1984 Is Not The Future Jacobello Alberegno The Beast of the Apocalypse 1360-90 The Guardian ran an article yesterday by one of its editors, David Shariatmadari, that both proves and disproves its own theme at the same time: “An Information Apocalypse Is Coming”. Now, I don’t fancy the term apocalypse in a setting like this, […]
Rethinking the balance between equality and hierarchy: 2) New insights into the evolution of hierarchy and inequality throughout the ages
Rethinking the balance between equality and hierarchy: 2) New insights into the evolution of hierarchy and inequality throughout the ages This is a follow up on our earlier article on finding techniques for ‘reverse dominance’, i.e. avoiding the concentration of power. More indications of how to restore a new balance towards egalitarian (or rather ‘equipotential’) […]
You Hate the State, But Do You Hate Politics? How Self Deception and Coalitions Affect Society
You Hate the State, But Do You Hate Politics? How Self Deception and Coalitions Affect Society Our ancestors weren’t nice people. They kept slaves, looked forward to wars and sent people to concentration camps. It is easy to dismiss them as moral retards, but that would be setting the bar way too low. Slavery is […]
We Can’t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things
We Can’t Keep Expecting the Federal Government to Fix Things Whatever your solution may be, the path to change a nation starts locally. It’s happened again, another tragedy in America, and once more we hear the cries for systematic change echo from coast to coast. Instead of berating you with countless policy prescriptions in the aftermath, and […]
Beware The Smiling Face Of Establishment Politics
Beware The Smiling Face Of Establishment Politics Image from official music video for “Black Hole Sun” by Soundgarden The most damaging people you will ever meet in your life are not those who are overtly hostile to you, the obviously malicious individuals who openly pursue your harm. The people you will look back on as […]
The Supersedure State
The Supersedure State I said that I wanted to focus on the shape of possible agrarian, post-capitalist states of the future in my forthcoming writing, so I thought I’d anticipate that here by reproducing my article from the current issue of The Land magazine (Issue 22, 2018, pp.28-30). The editors of that august journal in their wisdom […]
“The collapse of our civilization is not a political issue.” Really??
“The collapse of our civilization is not a political issue.” Really?? The cover article of New Scientist this week asks “Is Western civilization on the brink of collapse?” I’m glad they’re raising this question, but their discussion was extremely disappointing. First, as George Monbiot points out in a follow-up article, the article fails to distinguish between […]
Governments Try to Control Language to Hilarious Results
Governments Try to Control Language to Hilarious Results In the region formerly known as Yugoslavia, everyone speaks the same basic language, despite the individual countries’ governments insisting that they don’t. It is quite interesting to see how widespread some languages are, with some having over a billion speakers while others are spoken by a single […]
It’s Not About Democracy: Control Fraud Is the Core of our Political System
It’s Not About Democracy: Control Fraud Is the Core of our Political System The many are finally calling out the abusers of power because there’s no longer any need to pay the corrupting costs of centralization. If we strip away the pretense of democracy, what is the core of our political System? Answer: control fraud, […]
I May Be a Radical, But I’m Definitely Not a Utopian
I May Be a Radical, But I’m Definitely Not a Utopian I don’t have a grand, sweeping plan. I just want peace. I become a very fun party guest when the topic turns to politics. My Mundane Radicalism RE: Politics I come at questions about policy from a different angle than most. I don’t believe […]
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics
If You Don’t Trust People, Then You Shouldn’t Trust Politics If people can’t be trusted to make their own decisions, why would those same people be trusted to make decisions for the rest of us? “Ordinary people can’t be trusted to make the right decisions about what’s best for themselves and others. That’s why we […]
Censorship Comes to Google
Censorship Comes to Google Senator Feinstein rather boldly asked Google to take action to hamper RT’s ability to communicate its views to American audiences. At Saturday’s Halifax International Security Forum, Eric Schmidt announced that Google will alter its search algorithm to “de-rank” results from Russia Today. Why did Google do this? Perhaps they were concerned […]
