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Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit—in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.” 3
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Christopher Lasch: the cult of progress hollowed out memory and responsibility. To place faith in perpetual novelty was to declare war on continuity itself; communities became raw material for technical advance, and the future was bought at the price of forgetting the past. Progress did not liberate but amputated, leaving behind a society of
... See more"Conservatism," argued the journal, "is as much due to mental laziness as it is to fear of change.
Harvey R. Neptune • Caliban and the Yankees: Trinidad and the United States Occupation
nineteenth-century abolitionist Lysander Spooner, whose 1869 essay “The Constitution of No Authority”
Michael Malice • The New Right: A Journey to the Fringe of American Politics
When Will Helen DeWitt Be Recognized As One of the Great American Novelists?
Christian Lorentzenvulture.com
This is America, we would say to ourselves, there is no need to worry. And we would be wrong.
Julie Otsuka • The Buddha in the Attic
Humans think in stories rather than in facts, numbers, or equations, and the simpler the story, the better.
Yuval Noah Harari • 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
The point is that underlying technologies change, but, after a point, technology market shares don’t change and so they’re highly predictable.
W. Brian Arthur • Complexity Economics: Proceedings of the Santa Fe Institute's 2019 Fall Symposium
Nonetheless, if you are trying to change an organization or a society and you do not consider the effects of your changes on moral capital, you’re asking for trouble. This, I believe, is the fundamental blind spot of the left. It explains why liberal reforms so often backfire,43 and why communist revolutions usually end up in despotism. It is the
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