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Econosophy and other musings: October 2013
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Wednesday, October 30, 2013. Two jar by nature. Irresolvable opposition. Is the seat of change, of perception. Harmony in conflict. Peace in stress. I cannot extend the span of my empathy. And stay inside the fold, shielded. From the social winter that drives. The tough outsider on. See. How I change: empathy flows then cuts. Me off. The two jar: isolated empathy,. Empathic isolation. But it’s as natural as grass,. As Yin and Yang. Two jar by nature. Opposition creates sense; sense. Links to this post.
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Econosophy and other musings: Demote Money, Promote Wealth
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Thursday, January 6, 2011. Demote Money, Promote Wealth. No further revelations of criminality from on high should surprise us anymore; it is now clear corruption reigns. The surprise is how few of us are ready to embrace this fact, how hard it is to accept we’ve sold our dignity for decadence. As with decadence across the ages, dishonesty, corruption, naked greed, psychopathy, casuistry, amorality, and disinformation are this period’s defining characteristics. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). On Bast...
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Econosophy and other musings: December 2012
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Monday, December 31, 2012. Hopelessness: the Engine of Hope. Our lives are not our own. From the film Cloud Atlas. So, friends, we are about to enter 2013. Predictions are a dime a dozen, but there seems to be a fairly robust consensus emerging that the coming year will be very turbulent indeed. This is all standard fare, but deeper change is afoot than simple economic turbulence leading painfully but inexorably back to ‘normal’ – growth, Growth, GROWTH! Ralph Boes* was interviewed in Basel on the 23.
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Econosophy and other musings: Towards a less fervent work ethic
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Tuesday, March 24, 2015. Towards a less fervent work ethic. My translation of Heinrich Böll. 8217;s Anekdote zur Senkung der Arbeitsmoral. In a port somewhere on a Western European coast, a poorly clothed man dozes in his fishing boat as an elegantly dressed tourist loads a new colour film into his camera to catch the idyllic scene: blue sky, green sea combed with pretty, snow-white waves, black boat, red fishing cap. Click. And again: click. And, because three times is a charm and you. 8221; The fisherm...
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Econosophy and other musings: January 2013
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Sunday, January 27, 2013. Dependence Independence = Interdependence. But How? I suppose earlier generations had to sit through all this huffing and puffing with the invention of television, the phone, cinema, radio, the car, the bicycle, printing, the wheel and so on, but you would think we would learn the way these things work, which is this:. 1) everything that’s already in the world when you’re born is just normal;. Note: I am not talking about the lone woodsman surviving in the wild apart from all hu...
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Econosophy and other musings: December 2014
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Sunday, December 21, 2014. At its root, economics is about properly and sustainably managing a household. Or, more poetically, about taking care of our home. This is not news to anyone of course, but perhaps what has gone relatively unexamined is what we mean by home, and how our understanding of this concept ought to feed into economics. Economics; it is a conceptual construct that perpetuates homelessness in pursuit of more and more numbers and total control of nature. Orthodox. Links to this post.
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Econosophy and other musings: November 2014
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Sunday, November 30, 2014. 8220;Car”, they speak, “is imperative. It must go on. Car is what we live for. Car is what we are. If I took you outside Car, turned your gaze down to it from above, you would gape at its size. In it everyone is somehow housed, certainly everyone you know and billions you do not. In it many-splendid items of distraction, new and newer, get old, tumble back and out to be spat, ignored, onto the receding scenery. Don’t ask how, but many have travelled ahead a ways. We a...Car mus...
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Econosophy and other musings: April 2013
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Thursday, April 4, 2013. Tell me why, I don't like Mondays. The Song of the Shirt. Thomas Hood, 1843. With fingers weary and worn,. With eyelids heavy and red,. A woman sat, in unwomanly rags,. Plying her needle and thread –. In poverty, hunger and dirt,. And still with a voice of dolorous pitch. She sang the ‘Song of the Shirt’. While the cock is crowing aloof! And work – work – work,. Till the stars shine through the roof! To be a slave. Along with the barbarous Turk,. If this is Christian work! The ol...
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Econosophy and other musings: January 2015
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Friday, January 30, 2015. Fact: if it ain’t Growing, it’s Dying. The point to be grasped has been staring Western civilization in the face for the last half century: namely, that a predominantly megatechnic economy can be kept in profitable operation only by systematic and constant expansion. In this post, I examine how the money system is ignored in the mainstream media. I include within “money system” the notion. The first quotes come from a CNCB article. 8230;] in the hope of stimulating. And stultify...
