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Before a person becomes a saint, is mythologized, canonized, and most egregiously commercialized as Dr. King, they are just a person. They interact with people as just another person. These interactions provide the greatest opportunity for learning, if the saint had anything to teach in the first place. Dr. Martin
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What's missing from politics today is any understanding of organization. Not simply organizing in bringing people together to push for a defined goal or even the initial step of bringing people together to define a goal, but the understanding organization, how power is structured, is the very foundation
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Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Geometry – concerned with the shape of individual objects, spatial relationships among various objects, and the properties of surrounding space. Power is like gravity, a curvature of space-time. The more concentrated, the more power warps and influences
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Subscribe now Phew, it’d be hard to figure if the SEC’s approval of bitcoin ETFs says more about the corrupt dysfunction of DC, Wall Street, or Tech. Good thing you don’t have to choose. It’s a shamefully pathetic indictment of all three. The FT writes, “While
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After publishing Cybernetics in 1948, Norbert Wiener wrote The Human Use of Human Beings (1950). In the introduction he explains, “Upon the publication of this book (Cybernetics) which possesses a rather forbidding mathematical core, some of my friends urged upon me that I should write a related book for the
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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