Let me share a more nature-based perspective(although, as with almost everything in nature, not generalizable to the whole of the ecosystem) As you may know, chimpanzees wage wars, some being territorial, some more…
Hmm, how can an arm of the military-industrial complex help in any way, shape or form anyone really interested in changing the world? How naive one have to be .. well, ok nevermind, get your fb/g/"startup"(as in, cheap…
@Simulation: "Garbage in, garbage out" @CaspianReport: Another gate-keeping operation(see Noam Chomsky for ref). One dimensionality, designed, produced and moderated(either knowingly or unknowingly .. for the…
That is exactly the one I found; yes I know, but its written "in the spirit of the book" which makes it very off-putting right from the beginning. Going through the first pages only confirmed my viewpoint (as in, not…
Edit(2): One thing I wanted to mention[..], Calhouns universes, you have to read his prominent papers to the end otherwise you might get depressed(it gets more optimistic towards the end) - sustainability of societies…
Edit: @Ecology and the politics of scarcity revisited, just read the foreword of that book, almost each and every sentence of that foreword is a (known) misdirection; I don't think I'll have the nerves to read it, will…
@"overuse of resources is a typical pattern" - I don't agree, the drive for overuse of resources may be considered as such but this is hugely species-dependent, and besides a lot of cost-to-gather-resources vs…
"[..]We are the 1% who understand tech .. use a VPN, ublock etc .. Snowden .. idea of a complex password .. or willing to use a manager .. I gave up even trying to educate on this stuff [..]" How can someone educate…
(s/wish/try) and I agree with the first part of your sentence 100%
I was unable to reply to smallnamespace(and it just did not pass my internal value system to create a 2nd account just for that) @smallnamespace: I actually did answer, or, if you can't get an exact(ish) pointer out of…
Over-use of resources is actually a direct consequence of the consolidated global corporate power (from planned obsolescence through destroyed local markets/industry(with all its micro and regional economic and social…
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change." Isn't this (from a very, very high perspective) the reason why thousands of years of power…
Let me share a more nature-based perspective(although, as with almost everything in nature, not generalizable to the whole of the ecosystem) As you may know, chimpanzees wage wars, some being territorial, some more…
Hmm, how can an arm of the military-industrial complex help in any way, shape or form anyone really interested in changing the world? How naive one have to be .. well, ok nevermind, get your fb/g/"startup"(as in, cheap…
@Simulation: "Garbage in, garbage out" @CaspianReport: Another gate-keeping operation(see Noam Chomsky for ref). One dimensionality, designed, produced and moderated(either knowingly or unknowingly .. for the…
That is exactly the one I found; yes I know, but its written "in the spirit of the book" which makes it very off-putting right from the beginning. Going through the first pages only confirmed my viewpoint (as in, not…
Edit(2): One thing I wanted to mention[..], Calhouns universes, you have to read his prominent papers to the end otherwise you might get depressed(it gets more optimistic towards the end) - sustainability of societies…
Edit: @Ecology and the politics of scarcity revisited, just read the foreword of that book, almost each and every sentence of that foreword is a (known) misdirection; I don't think I'll have the nerves to read it, will…
@"overuse of resources is a typical pattern" - I don't agree, the drive for overuse of resources may be considered as such but this is hugely species-dependent, and besides a lot of cost-to-gather-resources vs…
"[..]We are the 1% who understand tech .. use a VPN, ublock etc .. Snowden .. idea of a complex password .. or willing to use a manager .. I gave up even trying to educate on this stuff [..]" How can someone educate…
(s/wish/try) and I agree with the first part of your sentence 100%
I was unable to reply to smallnamespace(and it just did not pass my internal value system to create a 2nd account just for that) @smallnamespace: I actually did answer, or, if you can't get an exact(ish) pointer out of…
Over-use of resources is actually a direct consequence of the consolidated global corporate power (from planned obsolescence through destroyed local markets/industry(with all its micro and regional economic and social…
"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one most adaptable to change." Isn't this (from a very, very high perspective) the reason why thousands of years of power…