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Charles Hugh Smith: What Would A Better System Look Like?
Charles Hugh Smith: What Would A Better System Look Like? Introducing the ‘Hacker’s Teleology’ Writer, philosopher and long-time contributor to PeakProsperity.com, Charles Hugh Smith, returns to the podcast to explain the new socio-economic model he has just introduced to the world through his new book A Hacker’s Teleology: Sharing the Wealth of Our Shrinking Planet. The […]
The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets
The Reasons Behind The Relentless Ideological Onslaught Against Free Markets I sometimes think that the free market concept is treated like The Hunchback of Notre-Dame’s Quasimodo in the long novel of global economic history. It is considered ugly and undesirable by most people who judge it at a mere glance without bothering to understand it. […]
Which Nations Will Crumble and Which Few Will Prosper in the Next 25 Years?
Which Nations Will Crumble and Which Few Will Prosper in the Next 25 Years? Adaptability and flexibility will be the core survival traits going forward. What will separate the many nations that will crumble in the next 25 years and those few that will survive and even prosper while the status quo dissolves around them? As […]
Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet
Father Of World Wide Web Launches Platform Which Aims To Radically Decentralize The Internet “For people who want to make sure the Web serves humanity, we have to concern ourselves with what people are building on top of it,” Tim Berners-Lee told Vanity Fair last month. “I was devastated” he said while going through a litany of […]
Fighting Back Against Globalism Requires An Honest Movement To Decentralize
Fighting Back Against Globalism Requires An Honest Movement To Decentralize Over a decade ago, critics of the liberty movement would often argue that it was not enough to simply point out all the problems plaguing our economy — we needed to also offer solutions. Of course, a common Alinsky tactic is to demand your opponents […]
Is Political Decentralization the Only Hope for Western Civilization?
Is Political Decentralization the Only Hope for Western Civilization? A couple of recent articles have once more made the case, at least implicitly, for political decentralization as the only viable path which will begin to solve the seemingly insurmountable political, economic, and social crises which the Western world now faces. In the last few months, over […]
The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It
The Road to 2025 (Part 4) – A Very Bright Future If We Demand It Whenever all government, domestic and foreign, in little as in great things, shall be drawn to Washington as the center of all power, it will render powerless the checks provided of one government on another, and will become as venal and […]
The energy of Bitcoin, the information economy and the (possible) decentralization of the world
The energy of Bitcoin, the information economy and the (possible) decentralization of the world The near vertical rise and fall in price of the cryptocurrency Bitcoin in recent months has been accompanied by reporting about the energy used to run the Bitcoin network. The amount is enormous, more than enough to supply the entire country […]
I Don’t Want Your Leaders
I Don’t Want Your Leaders In 2017, I wrote a lot about how dangerously centralized our political system in the U.S. has become, and how we need to decentralize governance in order to restore power, liberty and policy experimentation to the local level. This notion that a sprawling and culturally diverse nation of 325 million […]
Renaissance Italy Presents a Strong Case for Decentralization
Renaissance Italy Presents a Strong Case for Decentralization Common wisdom tells us that without a clear leader and monopoly on force, chaos reigns until a new order is established. My political theory is rooted in a single axiom that I came to independently: governments are mafia. I actually came to this conclusion in the reverse […]
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard?
In a Stateless World, Can You Grow Veggies In Your Front Yard? The Miami Herald reports that a local couple is going all the way to the state supreme court to fight a local ordinance banning front-yard vegetable gardens: Hermine Ricketts and her husband Tom Carroll may grow fruit trees and flowers in the front yard […]
If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain
If You Want to Understand the Next 10 Years, Study Spain Some of you may be confused as to why a U.S. citizen living in Colorado has become so completely obsessed with what’s going on in Spain. Bear with me, there’s a method to my madness. I believe what’s currently happening in Spain represents a […]
Will Brazil Be the Next Hotspot for Independence Movements?
Will Brazil Be the Next Hotspot for Independence Movements? If you’ve read my work over the past several weeks, you’ve probably noticed an increased fascination with secession/independence movements around the world. I think we’re at the very early stages of this developing trend, which will see nation-states across the world fracture for a variety of […]
The Future Will Be Decentralized
The Future Will Be Decentralized I heartily accept the motto, “That government is best which governs least”; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe — “That government is best which governs not at all”; and when men […]
