Politics
Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others, when you are not thinking with reference to some aspect of the common good. —Meditations 3.4
We just know that something feels wrong, but we don’t quite have new ideas about what to do about it. At best, we’re recycling old ones and say we’ll do them proper this time.
We’ve reached what Tocqueville described: downright egotism. It’s the ideological wall I find impossible to scale: I don’t know how to make you care about other people.
The Dark Heart of Individualism
I like to think of gardening metaphors, like growing trust. You have to water it—not too much, not too little. And things will always grow in different directions and with different outcomes than you’re expecting, but that’s okay.
Willa Köerner • On growing a cooperative like you’d grow a garden
A society’s structure and government are linked at the core to the organisation of space, and vice versa. For Foucault (2007) the definition and regulation of space is seen as governmentality, a tool for controlling and governing society. Defining certain spaces by assigning them certain properties, regulating their use and exchange, controlling
... See moreJakob Linaa Jensen • The Medieval Internet
„Fünf Bundesministerien verantworten etwa 170 Leistungen, die von fast 30 Behörden (...) teils unterschiedlich umgesetzt werden.“ Der Sozialstaat stehe unter erheblichem Druck, es brauche dringend eine Vereinfachung der Begriffe sowie eine Bündelung der Leistungen. Deshalb schlagen die vier Autoren vor, die Zuständigkeit für alle Sozialleistungen... See more
Dominik Fürst • Steinbrück, Voßkuhle, de Maizière: Was ein „handlungsfähiger Staat“ nun braucht
The fundamental message of marketing must change from "we want your money" to "we share your interests".