Liberté, Fraternité, Egalité
“The shallow consider liberty a release from all law, from every constraint. The wise see in it, on the contrary, the potent Law of Laws.” –Walt Whitman
Essential to liberty is the idea that we are all imbued with common sense, and should have the right to behave and create society as we [...]

Holistic Systems
“Integrity has no need of rules.” –Albert Camus
There was an era before agriculture. In this time, things were much less defined and depended on the connection between humanity and place rather than fearfully harnessing the fertility of the Earth. Hunting and gathering was how humanity sustained itself. In order for a [...]

Narcissistic Nation
“Narcissistic individuals constantly strive to meet the impossibly high standards of their false self, frequently feeling frustrated and depressed by their inability to do so, but also avoiding at all costs recognizing how empty they truly feel.”[1]
The desired unified worldview for globalization [...]

Holy Profits
“For complex reasons, our culture allows ‘economy’ to mean only ‘money economy.’ It equates success and even goodness with monetary profit because it lacks any other standard of measurement.” –Wendell Berry
The only benefit of monoculture is to allow a farmer to more easily make greater sums of money. The species of plant used is [...]

Earth, Inc.
“Advocates like to describe economic globalization as a long-term, inevitable process, the result of economic and technological forces that have simply evolved over centuries to their present form.”[1]
Accepting that national borders are merely a quaint reminder of an order long passed, what are the factors shaping the world we see today and imagine tomorrow? [...]

Sadistic Pavlovians
“The most powerful positions are those which control some crucial area of uncertainty.”[1]
One of the most disturbing ways to achieve control is to randomly award and punish. In this way, the individual being controlled is constantly perplexed as to whether he is doing well or badly. He continues to strive for the [...]

Checkmate
“Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy.  Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics.  Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science.  And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept [...]

The Truth is Out There
“Secrecy is the keystone of all tyranny.”[1]
Entertaining the idea of a “power elite” is enough to be labeled a “conspiracy theorist,” words expertly chosen to marginalize independent thought. However, the story does not end here; labels do not hinder an honest inquiry for truth. True power does not lie [...]

Peanut Butter Jelly Time
“There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them.” –Niels Bohr
In essence, we are really just talking about spreading jelly over toast. Do we want clumps or even distribution? But, please, let’s only consider what’s within the boundaries of my particular slice of bread. This [...]

The Human Hive
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated.”[1]
So what is communism? It is a system which delivers security in exchange for freedom by taking property out of the hands of individuals and into the “collective” or, [...]