updated 10mo ago
New Article: You Won’t Survive As Human Capital
- A world with failing institutions may be survivable by the strong-willed, but a better world will always be one where strong institutions exist.
from Stoicism Is Not Enough by Simon Sarris
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Here is where culture enters the picture. I mean“culture” in its anthropological rather than artisticsense. What values and practices can hold people to-gether as the institutions in which they live fragment? My generation suffered from a want of imagination inanswering this question, in advancing the virtues ofsmall-scale community. Co
... See morefrom The Culture of the New Capitalism by Richard Sennett
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- Despite their obvious faults, the industrial age institutions Illich targeted in his scathing critiques proved to be more resilient than he anticipated, and not necessarily because they were, in fact, useful, just, and sustainable enterprises. Rather, Illich came to the conclusion that we remained locked into these inevitably self-destructive insti... See more
from Your Attention Is Not a Resource by L. M. Sacasas
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