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the loss of these small groups, in favor of nation-level organization of atomized individuals, has had serious consequences for human welfare and human agency. We are missing a layer of organization essential for our happiness.
Sarah Perry • Gardens Need Walls: On Boundaries, Ritual, and Beauty
James C. Scott • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed (The Institution for Social and Policy St)
Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers
Adam Smith, the great inventor of modern economic thought, living in Scotland in the eighteenth century, published his magnum opus, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776. As a great humanist, he observed the consequences of globalization with a globalist perspective rather than British partiality. (In his own work on moral sympathy, Smith spoke about the
... See moreJeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
Loneliness—often a factor of social isolation—has become a societal epidemic in late capitalist societies.
James K. A. Smith • On the Road with Saint Augustine: A Real-World Spirituality for Restless Hearts
These data make a strong case that, as human social networks grow, they necessarily lead to systems that require fewer resources per person, and produce more per person. In other words, the benefits of scale for human groups have always been there.
