It may not be the meek who inherit the earth. It is always the humble.

Problems, though, began when I beganTo think, like some rogue algorithm,

What troubled us most was this disparityBetween the books of ourselves and the thingsWe saw our body do.

been our twenties,

they want to be able to say stuff like “Asians, Jews and whites are smarter than blacks and Hispanics because genetics” without being called racist.

If the diffusion of education, Having the general tendency to elevate the understanding, is to produce more had men than good, we had better abandon than foster our Common School system.

demagogues

ARISTIDES

regicides

the value of someone's coin should be correlated to that person's standing in society.

philomath

For Pogany, the world of seventeenth-eighteenth century is a stable, proto-global merchant system that collapses with the French revolution. Around 1815, after 20 years of chaos and Napoleonic wars, the next stabilized system is Smithian capitalism marked by a total domination of capital over labour. Smithian capitalism collapses in WW1, which creates another chaotic period ending after WW2, with the emergence of the social democratic welfare state, which collapses in 2008.

planetary guilds enabled by blockchains.

ZapatistasF

nation, and the state

The Memetic Tribes Of Culture War 2.0

I think this is what happens to humanity: we extend as systems and weaken as individuals.

the irrationality of rationality.

At the moment, we are divested of our data all the way down to our desires and nervous systems.

At the same time, there are many issues that remain global. How do you deal with overfishing in international waters? You need a global institution for that. How do you deal with Fukushima-like accidentsFootnote 14? The radioactive wave does not stop at your border.

‘Wave Pulse theories are cyclical theories of human history, which see societies evolving in a succession between more extractive/degradative phases, and more regenerative phases in which the commons operate as a key “healing” mechanism.’Footnote 13 During the degradative phases of consumptive expansion, the ruling class pushes towards the use of more and more resources – they have to do this, because they are competing with others. When things start degrading (soil becomes depleted, or whatever else happens in a particular context), that degradation creates a counterreaction and opens up a regenerative phase needed for saving the region where it occurs. But as soon as the regenerative phase is over, humankind begins a new degradative phase.

TechnoCalyps

our intelligence—also makes us uniquely vulnerable to mental predators and parasites.

“Memes inside a memeplex survive better as part of the group… they form a self-organizing, self-protecting structure that welcomes and protects other memes that are compatible with the group, and repels memes that are not.”

The Meme Machine

“Self-justification means that the components of a memeplex mutually justify each other.”

A meme only needs to fake positive qualities to be repeated, even if it’s actually useless, meaningless, unhealthy, or a straight-up lie.  

I like to feel powerful.

Jane Fonda

symps

symps

There is nothing we find more despicable than spontaneous collective action motivated by collective self-interest among a homogeneous consensus.

You are right that you have a fatal disease. It is one your body recognizes as self.

Video et taceo

Vogon spy

“I was put off from suicide only by the desire to learn more mathematics.”