Why hierarchy creates a destructive force within the human psyche
Dr. Robert Sapolsky Also see: Why Hierarchy Creates Clusterfucks
Author: EMN
Worker Self Directed Enterprises
There’s a lot I like, and dislike, about Richard Wolff. One thing that seems OK is his promotion of Worker Self Directed Enterprises (WSDE). One of his latest works is a book (more here): David Ellerman actually beat Wolff to it with Abolish Human Rentals. I like Ellerman’s approach or …
Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It’s a Seductive Mirage
source by Richard M. Stallman It has become fashionable to toss copyright, patents, and trademarks—three separate and different entities involving three separate and different sets of laws—plus a dozen other laws into one pot and call it “intellectual property”. The distorting and confusing term did not become common by accident. …
Spontaneous giving and calculated greed
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v489/n7416/full/nature11467.html
Leaderless Emergence Order
What happens when there is no leader? Starlings, bees, and ants manage just fine. In fact, they form staggeringly complicated societies — all without a Toscanini to conduct them into harmony. This hour of Radiolab, we ask how this happens. http://www.radiolab.org/story/91500-emergence/ Swarm Theory and Swarm Intelligence are essentially what’s covered …
Government and Conscience
In a post ‘debate’ interview today Daniel Ellsberg said got a letter from Edward Snowden recently. It was the US Constitution, Snowden signed it, adding a quote to this effect, “The most dangerous man in government is a man with a conscience.” Well said Snowden. It’s not an argument for no …
RIP Amiri Baraka
An article from the same time period Amiri would have tipped his hat to (graphics no longer visible on Slate): graphics visible here
The Board Game Monopoly- Created to Teach Anti-Capitalism
In the ‘Roaring 20’s’ Elizabeth (Lizzie) J. Magie Phillips created the game Monopoly, actually called The Land Lord’s Game. She was a Georgist, an anti-capitalist, that wanted to teach Georgism to the public. She created the game, as she said, because: “We must do something about it [the rentier class, …
Banks Misbehaving
Frieda Werden interviewing Ellen Brown on WINGS (Women’s International News Gathering Service) WINGS #37-13 Banks Misbehaving outside link | local mp3
Mapping Institutional Privilege, Capitalism and Racism (Inalienist Versus Alienist Institutions)
The historical Classical Liberal debate between consent vs. coercion, or within the sphere of consent itself, came down to Delegation vs. Alienation, and coercion was seen as neither delegation nor alienation for reason. Coercion Consent Consent Alienation (translatio) Delegation (concessio) The table above maps to the blue model of institutions …