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Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVII

Today’s Contemplation: Collapse Cometh XXXVII Teotihuacan, Mexico (1988) Photo by author Got involved in a discussion after an Facebook Friend (Alice Friedemann, whose work can be seen here) posted a study on the decline of ‘rationality’ over the past few decades. My initial response was as follows: My initial thought is that this shift is more the result […]

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American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News

American Totalitarianism and the Culture of Fake News American citizens have a problem telling the difference between facts and opinion. That’s the finding of a recent survey carried out by the respected Pew organization. It was found that only a quarter of the people polled were able to correctly distinguish between a factual statement and […]

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Does Subjective Valuation Mean Arbitrary Valuation?

DOES SUBJECTIVE VALUATION MEAN ARBITRARY VALUATION? Why do individuals pay much higher prices for some goods versus other goods? The common reply to this is the law of supply and demand. However, what is behind this law? To provide an answer to this question economists refer to the law of diminishing marginal utility. Mainstream economics […]

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The world in 2018 – Part Four

The world in 2018 – Part Four In the modern world, our perceptions of reality are largely shaped by economic and financial considerations, and our policy conversations are largely built around intellectual categories and evaluative criteria that pertain to the economics discipline. Yet a long-term view shows that ‘The world in 2018’ is in a significantly […]

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The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer

The Archdruid Report: Facts, Values, and Dark Beer. Over the last eight and a half years, since I first began writing essays on The Archdruid Report, I’ve fielded a great many questions about what motivates this blog’s project. Some of those questions have been abusive, and some of them have been clueless; some of them have […]

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Olduvai IV: Courage
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