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For Those Who Read Me Seriously

A few clarifications theoretically — Capitalism is a social system. And social systems are responsible to everybody: with reference to any given society. Basically, my view is that the system of capitalism becomes dominant at some point — but this only applies to a very few countries. What this means, then, is that the capitalist…

Economics

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1 day ago

You Could Take This in a Bad Way

observations of an Autistic Economist — Life I feel to be rather difficult. There are many times when there may be about a hundred different responses I can make. In my particular kind of Autism - I use the capital ‘A’- many different possible responses parade before me one after the other. But it’s a slow…

Autism

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2 days ago

Sense Impressions of an Autistic Person

I am Autistic and these are my experiences. — I am Autistic and I have tried all the (various of the) arts. trying to be a writer, but I cannot write up everything. There is too much of it. There is music, dance, painting, drawing: many kinds of art. Impressions

Autism Spectrum Disorder

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4 days ago

The Big and the Small of It

~for Corrine Nida Consider the giant beetle that eats a hundred other bugs every day. His energy dominates, I’ll give you that. And you could not find a better bug. Or a bigger bug. Or a fatter bug. In the end, all of it gives up its present form (you…

Economics

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Published in The Haven

·May 14

Respect the Professor!

Those unbelievable smart men! — Regarding modern psychology and economics, and other scholars, they are interested in displaying their reasoning. They want to show the world they got great reasoning powers. Even more critical books about such men as these (John Cassady, “Market Fail H”) accept the general story about the minds of the scholars…

Humor

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May 11

Markets Don’t Just Work all by Themselves Autonomously

Or something. — BUT FIRST! A word from our anarchists: Kropotkin came from one of the most aristocratic eminent families in Russia. He claimed descent from the House of Rurik, the original ruling family of Russia. He had actually been a personal page of Tsar Alexander II in his early years in power…

Success

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Published in Everything Shortform

·May 10

Covid was a big deal.

Covid was a big deal. Lot of people were sick. The narrow green stripe runs across the screen. All governments are the rulers of their realms. But at times, they topple. Being the emperor of Rome often ends with — being the dead emperor of — Well, Rome. I preferred…

Good Things

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Covid was a big deal. Lot of people were sick. The narrow green stripe runs across the screen. All governments are the rulers of their realms. But at times, they topple. Being the emperor of Rome often ends with — being the dead emperor of — Well, Rome. I preferred…

May 9

The Full Explanation is Not Available

Talkin’ bout the Rain — A picture is available for you, right here. Weather forecasts are flaky in Miami. I see the forecasts say probably a rain shower this evening, but if I am only using the forecasts there is a possibility it won’t rain, at all! These forecasts seem to be wrong about half…

Weather

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May 9

Night (not to plagiarize Eli Wiesel or nothin’ …

literature — After my last story, which was about homosexuality in the Russian army, I need to write a new story otherwise my reputation is going to hit the skids. My earnings, pathetic for this month so far, are low. What follows is my raw desperate inspiration, redacted almost word for word…

Motel

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Night (not to plagiarize Eli Wiesel or nothin’ …

May 9

Ambition and Homosexuality

-and J. D. Vance — Why DO People GO to Work? (Hillbilly Turned Writer) Every day, people get up and go to work. Why? I don’t know why other people do the things they do. (How is one to behave?) Why does the world even turn around? I suppose it was made in the big bang. What people seem to want, mostly, is to…

Insane

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