Triaxial Weaving by Tim Tyler Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups The first instinct for most partisans or ideologues is to dig in one’s heels and cling to a checklist of group-identity criteria. Identification with one’s group, therefore, tends to come before sound thinking. And if someone else proposes an idea that is not on … Continued
Photo by Rakesh Bakshi, International Business Times, Getty Images Violence is a fact of life. And yet, we should continue to do what we can to reduce it. Questions around policies are debatable. But we’re not interested in policy debates here, as this is not a policy prescription. We’re laboring under the assumption that blanket policies, … Continued
Let’s be honest: We’re set up for a democracy of rubes and that scares us Source: Deviant Art Artist: Oddities by Ernie The coordinated outrage against Cambridge Analytica is brilliant strategy. What better way to neutralize your opposition in a midterm election than to create the appearance of impropriety? All this whistleblowing is a psy-ops campaign, … Continued
Can Psychedelic Augmentation Prepare Us for Societies of the Future? “Double Boxed” by teundenouden at Deviant Art What is the difference between a disease and a disposition? And what if there were compounds that were just as effective at changing political perspectives as treating mental-health disorders? With this I’d like to explore the implications of what … Continued
Part one in a series on the convergence of crypto technologies and psychedelics Art by Drunvalo Melchizedek at Psychedelic Adventure About a year ago, Joel’s life was a mess. He was overweight. He suffered frequent bouts of depression. And he could never shake what he described as an all-pervasive anxiety, which he had carried with … Continued
By Richard Cederfjard at Deviant Art Ideology Dies One Small Social Experiment at a Time Greetings from the post-ideological era. It’s early still, but what innovators and entrepreneurs are creating right now is about to reorganize society as we know it. The result will prompt us to call into question the entire enterprise of political theory. … Continued
Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs) See art by SPCPETEW at Deviant Art Imagine a condition in which we have created our own social safety nets. That is, the safety nets are not created for us by some authority. Through self-organization, people start to experiment with systems designed to help members thrive. Fungus-like, these … Continued
Photography by midzz at Deviant Art. Reasons to be skeptical of a UBI, plus a brief sketch of decentralized alternatives Not since the carbon tax has there been a proposal hotter than that of the universal basic income (UBI). Big Tech luminaries such as Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk have expressed support for the scheme. The … Continued
Dubai skyline among clouds courtesy of Vertical Dubai We’re committed to liberating humanity through innovation More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish democracy,” the silent, dogged resistance, withdrawal, and truculence of millions of ordinary people, than by revolutionary vanguards or rioting mobs. -James C. Scott What kind of … Continued
Dubai skyline among clouds courtesy of Vertical Dubai We’re committed to liberating humanity through innovation More regimes have been brought, piecemeal, to their knees by what was once called “Irish democracy,” the silent, dogged resistance,
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Photography by midzz at Deviant Art. Reasons to be skeptical of a UBI, plus a brief sketch of decentralized alternatives Not since the carbon tax has there been a proposal hotter than that of the universal basic income (UBI). Big Tech luminaries suc
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Human Fractals and Decentralized Alternatives to a UBI (DISCs) See art by SPCPETEW at Deviant Art Imagine a condition in which we have created our own social safety nets. That is, the safety nets are not created for us by some authority. Through se
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By Richard Cederfjard at Deviant Art Ideology Dies One Small Social Experiment at a Time Greetings from the post-ideological era. It’s early still, but what innovators and entrepreneurs are creating right now is about to reorganize society as we k
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Part one in a series on the convergence of crypto technologies and psychedelics Art by Drunvalo Melchizedek at Psychedelic Adventure About a year ago, Joel’s life was a mess. He was overweight. He suffered frequent bouts of depression. And he could
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Can Psychedelic Augmentation Prepare Us for Societies of the Future? “Double Boxed” by teundenouden at Deviant Art What is the difference between a disease and a disposition? And what if there were compounds that were just as effective at changi
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Let’s be honest: We’re set up for a democracy of rubes and that scares us Source: Deviant Art Artist: Oddities by Ernie The coordinated outrage against Cambridge Analytica is brilliant strategy. What better way to neutralize your opposition in a
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Triaxial Weaving by Tim Tyler Weaving Healthy Values Together Beyond Political In-Groups The first instinct for most partisans or ideologues is to dig in one’s heels and cling to a checklist of group-identity criteria. Identification with one’s
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Well, the book anyway. It’s been a while since I’ve written. One reason is I’ve been gearing up for the launch of The Social Singularity. If you’re curious about the book, you can get it and help tweak the Amazon algorithm. If you’d like to
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