Impeaching Politics Past, William Greider
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Yellowstone and Complexity
Life in the 21st century is reader supported, please subscribe and make life sustainable. SUBSCRIBE I always liked the term ecology opposed to environment. I suppose it comes from my youth. My first semester at the University of Arizona, I was a Wildlife Ecology major. In my first class, I
Leverage upon Leverage upon Leverage
Financial operations do not lend themselves to innovation. What is recurrently so described and celebrated is without exception a small variation on an established design, one that owes its distinctive character to the aforementioned brevity of the financial memory. The world of finance hails the invention of the wheel over
Money & Energy
The “money question” passed out of American politics essentially through self-censorship. This result, quite simply, was a product of cultural intimidation. In its broader implications, however, the silencing of debate about “concentrated capital” betrayed a fatal loss of nerve on the part of those who, during Populism, dared to
The Politics of AI - II: Unchaining the Future
"Thus in depending on the future of invention to extricate us from the situations into which the squandering of our natural resources has brought us we are manifesting our national love for gambling and our national worship of the gambler, but in circumstances under which no intelligent gambler would