economics

  • Our society, our culture, has exploited symptoms for so long, we do not even think to look for causes anymore. While the voting public obsess about the individual, the oligarchs rule the population. Continue reading

  • National Twelve Step Program

    A Fractal Dialectic There are two kinds of adults; those who don’t remember the crappy things they did to others when they were young, and those who do. Of the adults who remember, there are two groups; those who are… Continue reading

  • How Free Markets Destroy Their Ecosystems

    Imagine that most people only watched the Super Bowl Halftime Show to find something to nitpick and criticize on social media, and the producers knew this and intentionally created a halftime show to exploit this reality to increase revenue. Now…… Continue reading

  • An Artist’s Journey

    If you were placed in the middle of a vast desert, not able to see anything in any direction, and no knowledge of the geography to determine which direction was best to reach safety, how would you act? Everyone would… Continue reading

  • Parasitic Industries

    A Fractal Thought Exercise Imagine a professional sports industry whose league executives decided that it was beneficial to all if they manipulated the games to be more entertaining. They would do this by having the referees call fouls, or not… Continue reading

  • The Macro “Secret”

    It is not too difficult to understand logically where the next famine is coming from, but it is very tricky to see it in real time. We all know how important it is to have a positive attitude in this… Continue reading