“The underlying social reality is one not generally kept firmly in mind as an operative dynamic of modern society – namely, mass democratic movements are overarchingly difficult for human beings to generate. ...coordinated insurgent actions by hundreds of thousands or millions of people represent a political, an organizational, and above all,
I’ve always been a science fiction fan. Though not reading many books, I watched plenty of movies. 70 years ago, Hannah Arendt noted the then still new genre had not been taken seriously enough in regards to revealing mass aspirations. Last year, I realized popular science fiction is increasingly
Where are you going, my beautiful friend? Is this the road that we take 'til the end? And if we break down are we left behind? Is this the highway of all mankind? Get up and clean your teeth and have a shave It's 1 am let&
For two reasons I write little about electoral politics in America. First, without a massive rethinking about all sorts of things, it’s no solution for much of anything. Secondly, I’m not paid to write about it. If you’re not making a lot of money in this election
We are the Greeks. We are the Romans. We are the continuation of Western Civilization that began three thousand years ago. The Iliad and The Odyssey are a good, if somewhat random, marking of its start. Not totally surprising the contemporary West’s giant Hollywood entertainment machine released a massive
This is one of those if you live long enough, an Ivy Boomer Lady actually holding Obama accountable for his role in helping create the mess we’re in. Obama is entirely culpable for the crime of pardoning our big bank, Wall Street financial system, creating an even greater concentration
It’s a fool’s quest to call the top of financial hysterias, not that randomly, or in this quantum age call it a certain probability, some will get it right. The thing about hysterias is whenever you think there’s a top, they can always rave higher. Nonetheless, a
After four weeks of prime futbol every day – two, three, four games a day – you get to today, no games, and then depression sets in. This Cup has seen some great football. It’s now down to 8. Frenches still look best of breed. I had some questions about Argentina,
Politics, a word devoid of meaning these days. At best, here in these United States, thought of politics immediately turns to Republicans and Democrats, yet, neither the Declaration or Constitution says anything about parties. Parties are the invention of representative republicanism, one of many modern political innovations brought about with
"But while violence can destroy power, it can never become a substitute for it. From this results the by no means infrequent political combination of force and powerlessness, an array of impotent forces that spend themselves, often spectacularly and vehemently but in utter futility, leaving behind neither monuments nor
Where do you start these days? The FT has AI ‘exuberance’ risks ending in lengthy investment bust, BIS warns. BIS is the Bank for International Settlements. It’s been described as the Fed of global central banks. That's not quite right. What we learned in 2008, we all
“The American technocrats have drawn an enchanting picture of a society in which, with the abolition of the market, technicians would find themselves all-powerful, and would use their power in such a way as to give to all the maximum leisure and comfort possible. This idea reminds us, by