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Ask an Interesting Question, Get an Interesting Answer. Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri’s Question: Who Wins and Who Loses Under Globalization?
Some globalism questions for the object or subject of your contemplation. Of nature: How is this natural object or ecosystem affected by globalization? Of art, literature, architecture, goods-for-sale, photography, advertising, or media: How is this object of human fashioning changed … Continue reading
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Tagged art, college, globalism, literature, Politics, psychology, questions, seeing, vision
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The Bright American Future
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Tagged America, college, education, geography, globalism, high school, history, illiteracy, school
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2012 On the Brink: Our Networked Human Future
We live in interesting times: the end of the “dumb society.” A great short documentary on our collective (and hopeful) future:
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Tagged 2012, documentary, future, globalism, hope, life, networking, optimism, reason, technology, urbanism
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Should Atheists Insert Themselves into Religious Discussions and Theological Disputes?
The reason atheists can (and should) enter into religious discussions and theological disputes, judging religions, is because Jesus, Muhammad, Moses, Krishna, and Buddha do not belong to the faiths to which they are associated. In the 21st century, these figures … Continue reading
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Tagged agnostic, apologetics, atheism, atheist, Buddha, globalism, God, Jesus, krishna, muhammad, the Internet, yoga
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Burger King in Russia, Circa 2011
Thought experiment. Imagine resurrecting the following figures from the Russian and Soviet past: Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Czar Nicholas, and Lenin. Show them the ad below. Tell them this is what is being promoted to Russian youth as desirable in the year … Continue reading
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Tagged burger king, capitalism, Communism, Dostoevsky, globalism, hamburgers, lenin, life, Russia, Soviet Union, Tolstoy
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Global Debt Slavery Watch: Economic Anthropologist David Graeber Thinks Slavery and Debt Slavery May Be a Distinction Without Much of a Difference
At Naked Capitalism, Dublin-based journalist Philip Pilkington asks economic anthropologist David Graeber an intriguing question: We know that in many Western countries over the past few years households have been running up enormous debts, from credit card debts to mortgages … Continue reading
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Tagged class warfare, david graeber, debt, debt forgiveness, economics, globalism, jubilee, materialism, mind, philosophy, social psychology
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Thanks, Steve Jobs! If the Global Cellular Network Collapses This Decade It May Not Be Because of Osama bin Laden
The Washington Post reports, via Jim Giles of New Scientist, that a catastrophic collapse of the globe’s cellular networks is a real possibility over the next decade: [S]ome kind of collapse in cellular networks in the near future is a real … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, 2013, 21st century, apocalypse, femtocells, globalism, osama bin laden, science, steve jobs, technology
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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Is Spain Too Big to Fail? Are We?
The following was in the New York Times on the day before Thanksgiving, 2010. It describes with stark clarity the vicious debt whirlpool that Spain is in the grips of. I wonder what Paul Krugman would say about this. I suppose that, someday, the United States could find … Continue reading
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The (Economic) Sermons on the Mount: In Davos, Switzerland, George Soros, Niall Ferguson, and Nouriel Roubini Pronounce Global Doom and Gloom
Daniel Gross, of Slate.com, spent three days at the Davos, Switzerland “World Economic Forum,” and among the high powered economists, CEOs, and academics in attendance he could find no optimists about the world economy. Not one. Nada. Zilch. And apparently many … Continue reading
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