Joe Costello has decades experience in politics, energy, environment, and communications. Traveled and worked across the planet. Long a student of democracy, its demise, possible revitalization.
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I'm using my feet for my human machine You won't find me living for the screen Are you lonely, all needs catered? You got your brains dehydrated LaTimes has a piece on our throw-away consumption society, which is even more horrendously sinful around Christmas, a celebration
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Money always had a role in American elections, but its determinative value has grown exponentially over the last half-century. Campaigns didn't use to be
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It's not a coincidence one of history's greatest, if not the greatest thinker on democracy is lost to the 21st century. If it wasn't for Alexis Tocqueville's reporting on and analyzing of the 1830s American republic, most today wouldn’t believe it
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Here a tower shinning bright once stood gleaming in the night Where now there's just the rubble in the hole There the Paddies and the Frogs came to gamble on the dogs Came to gamble on the dogs not long ago It's difficult to read anything
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"'Have a head for figures.' That is to say, we must attend to the quantitative aspect of a situation or problem and make a basic quantitative analysis. Every quality manifests itself in a certain quantity, and without quantity there can be no quality. To this day many
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Received a cheery note the other day: “Monday, 18-Dec-2023 was a historic day in the history of North American wildlife management, as the first gray wolves were released in northwestern Colorado by Colorado Parks and Wildlife
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Scrooge fell upon his knees, and clasped his hands before his face. “Mercy!” he said. “Dreadful apparition, why do you trouble me?” Subscribe now I was scrolling the Journal last night and came across journalist Rebecca Smith's obit. Way, way deep in the back of my brain some
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It's an interesting, nonetheless contemptible fact we refuse to acknowledge the politics of technology. It is especially curious after two-centuries industrial technologies altered daily human existence to a far greater degree than any political dogma of the time. Across the 20th century, industrialization was, which the exceptions of
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Some people try to pick up girls and get called asshole This never happened to Pablo Picasso He could walk down your street and girls could not resist his stare And so Pablo Picasso was never called an asshole The Art Institute has a wonderful exhibition of Pablo Picasso'
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“There are times when liberty alone can replace the love of personal comfort with higher and more active enthusiasms, can provide ambition and loftier aims than the acquisition of wealth and can shed enough light to lead people both to see and to judge the vices and virtues of men.
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please consider become a paid subscriber. From our beginnings, Homo sapiens have been a migratory species. Only in the last ten thousand years, with the dawn of agriculture, has humanity become relatively sedentary. However, even across these ten thousand years, migration