Culture

The Link Between Consumerism And Productive Societies

Why consumerism and productivity go hand-in-hand, everything has a price Consumerism is seen as a negative trend in most of today’s...
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Lewis Mumford, A Thinker for the Ages Tells a Tale Of Cities Since the...

The Medieval Religiously Centered City My Dad often spoke about his admiration for Lewis Mumford (October 19, 1895 — January 26,...
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How I Became an Independent Researcher of The Tangled Net Of Economic ...

Rarely do I find myself in a state of seemingly unattached free-form physical depression of the sort that makes one’s energy...
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Can we replace fighting with work and reason?

Usually, death hits us at the wrong time. The passing of Justice Ruth B. Ginsburg opened the political arm wrenching in...
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Data Apocalypse Later

“Experience as a whole is not something that anyone can be spared”. — Hans-Georg Gadamer Data Driven is a Car Crash?...
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Working from Home

How Working From Home Increased My Productivity

Stories of success, anguish and the internal state of affairs from a “self-proclaimed” productive human Working from home really brought out...
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Words Alone Are Not Enough: Overcoming a Multitude of Problems Require...

Our mindset is mired in the stone age. We still plunder the earth. Neo-liberalism is the current expression of that mentality....
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Umbrellas with assorted colors

Open your mind to bias in the boardroom

We all have a mental boardroom, and usually, there’s a hidden bigot at the table.  That’s the premise put forth by...
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The Great Exodus: Searching for the Better Place

2020 will be a year to remember. Many people’s lives have changed trajectories in the last several months. Among my friends...
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Common Substance of Art, Science, and Dreams

“There is nothing new under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9) Powerful and infinite are human dreams. This metaphysical world of ideas is...
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The politically incorrect commencement speech

Dear 2020 graduates: You already have gotten one slap in the face with all ceremonies and the following parties being canceled....
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The 8 Lessons Learned From COVID-19, But They Won’t Last

With life changing significantly almost overnight in early March 2020 due to COVID-19, there is a growing thought that we are...
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