When exposed to new phenomena we change. We immediately change, but not necessarily for the better. There is change there. Maybe we like it. But that doesn’t mean it is for the better. Did the change do any good? Is there anything that came? Out from it? Did we need…
Everybody likes me. The police cars drive
down the street. I go out walking.
They do not stop me. They must
like me. I drank two Torpedo IPAs and
one…
This is an ECONO piece, from Jack S.
http://www.historiamag.com/category/features/
The historical reality of the last 200 years has to do with trade.
Britain and the United States grew. There were now capitalistic societies. Trade benefits its society, but only under certain limited circumstances.
That time is over now; it is over. The time for the initial capitalistic social…
Capitalism is change, and implies a necessary diffusion of wealth
Given that there is a certain amount of money in the economy, it needs to “leak” out to the group called The People.
It can diffuse out to the people in either a capitalistic or a socialistic manner. In the former, the principle is “capital.” In this method “money makes…
If I ask a question I want it to be answered. I want to get an answer. I want to be acknowledged as the person who asked. I was being polite, I really was, in this hypothetical case, and I want an answer. Maybe I just needed help. …
and you’re payin’ for it
You pay your money and what you get is a fantasy. By which I mean to say: you get to live in one.
Say, you go into a store. Say — you buy or rent something, or you go into a booth and watch a movie of sex. Any store…
The dumbest idea in the world; and it is strangling us
Definition of regulate
transitive verb
1a: to govern or direct according to rule
People write a lot of stuff, let’s face it. For instance, somebody gets married. And they write about it. Or they write about their sexual perversity. But people like me…
no food here, sorry! Just writing
https://civileats.com/2017/11/15/these-researchers-dug-through-peoples-garbage-to-find-out-why-we-waste-fooddigging-into-the-psychology-of-food-waste/ *I am one of these researchers, I really am. Because, you see…
I am homeless and I have become adept at carefully filching from trash bins, among other places, to get a regular supply of food. But now the Corona Virus time has come. So what do we learn…
how culture manifests
What are we -as a culture -thinking? Do we have a body of knowledge guiding us? Do we have some body of knowledge, in common? If we are a culture, we should have that. And whatever that body of knowledge would be, wouldn’t that need to be gotten into printed…
