People who criticize market forces I think are missing that it is corporations using markets through control that cause economic difficulties. The reason, I speculate is because they tend to be progressives who really like large scale organizational interventions, because their careers are there, and being critical of markets appears to take head on the …
And of course money is a proxy measure for food land health education and intergenerational continuity and care. that is, for the life of a full human.
In the last post I wrote, ….. a major division toward the future: will it be one world of managerial necessity, or regional and local, with wars and fears? I think history is on the side of regional, avoiding the large bureaucratization of the world, but one humanity on one planet is compelling logic. there …
After a description of an attempt to bring progress out of the current economic malaise, a reader writes, I don’t know about you, but when I see the words, “Toward a New Global Financial Architecture,” all the red lights on my dashboard start to flash. And when these words are coupled with the name of …
I really like these descriptions but it highlights for me why I am so drawn to psychoanalysis and literature. The increased depth and awareness of the cloudiness of real life. Harder to deal with but intrinsically more interesting to me. It is the loss of cultural awareness of that murkiness and importance that i find so discouraging, and motivating. Translating unmappable …
People were quite certain before WW1 and WW2 that they would happen. Good thinking about global warming is over a hundred years old (Fourier), the financial failing was anticipated by some smart people. But the ruling powers of money would rather keep the cash flow than deal with human well-being. hence we are caught in …
March 8, 2010 – 4:51 am
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After WW2 and before Japanese competition upped the standards, we built shoddy cars, and the rest of the consumer world went with them.Cheap, not long lasting. We built housing and offices and stores that are cheap and won’t last long. The result is, we have a replaceable society with no money to replace what is …
When a nation is in decline, terrible things usually happen. there are fights over diminishing assets, and posturing for a debacle and posturing for recovery. Our finances, taxes and politics are at play, as is the shifting scene of international competitions that surround us (as seen by the US). Toynbee suggested that in crises the …
March 2, 2010 – 12:49 am
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I am just back from Guatemala, mostly in Antigua. main conclusion: people act in accordance, no more no less, with the material conditions in which they find themselves. The difference between Guatemala and most of the US is profound, and people act accordingly.
March 1, 2010 – 8:40 am
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We really fail to understand the lessons of art, literature, philosophy, history anthropology, archeology, .. In a tense and distraught world, we do not take care of those who are failing. We certainly are not living in that kind of christian world. Which leads to how spirituality and religion fit. I think Vicero was the …