December 2011
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WatchCan a meme change our nation?
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a powerful and long-overdue compilation →
“The notion that capitalism exemplifies a free market is akin to the notion that a few wilting geraniums in a greenhouse constitute an ecosystem. Markets are useful tools for an egalitarian society — properly defined they are of unparalleled potential — but explaining this utility has become as difficult as explaining the utility of ecology to residents of a hermetic space station who only...
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Invisible Molotov →
the great economist adam smith once referred to the tendency of free economic association between individuals to improve their collective conditions as an “invisible hand”
for those of us interested in resisting and undermining coercive power, the issue is less how a truly freed market might one day improve our lives, but rather how the faint sparks of freedom in the market today are already...
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Deliver Occupy from its “Friends” →
“Those who object miss the point. A large share of those participating in OWS have learned that playing by the normal rules of “progressive” politics — getting out the vote and organizing pressure groups — doesn’t work. They tried that in 2008, electing the most “progressive” president of a lifetime with the biggest majority since LBJ, and a Democratic super-majority in Congress. And then...
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The Student Loan Debt System →
“Student loan debt is the latest economic crisis du jour. The standard pundit blames the students, and in some respects their vitriol has a semblance of validity.
Myself, I have yet to see students getting rich off of the system. I see students who have unexpected medical emergencies, family problems, and worst yet: administrations who callously tack on unexpected fees. Where does all...
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rebel against the tyranny of the selfish...
“It is possible that yet another unique quality of man is a capacity for genuine, disinterested, true altruism. I hope so, but I am not going to argue the case one way or the other, not speculate over its possible memic evolution. The point I am making now is that, even if we look on the dark side and assume that individual man is fundamentally selfish, our conscious foresight – our capacity to...
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