by Brandon Smith. A frequent mistake that many people make when considering the concept of
social or economic collapse is to imagine how people and groups will
behave tomorrow based on how people behave today. It is, though,
extremely difficult to predict human behavior in the face of terminal
chaos. What we might expect, or what ... MORE
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Showing posts with label cooperation. Show all posts
Steve Chapman: The Democrats Abandon Free Trade
What happened to bipartisan consensus? For a long time, there was a bipartisan consensus for free trade. President George H.W. Bush, a Republican, negotiated the North American Free Trade Agreement, and Democrat Bill Clinton got it passed. It prevailed in the Senate in 1993 with the support of 27 Democrats and 34 Republicans. The consensus ... MORE
Paul Rosenberg: You'll Stop Being A Serf When You Do This
Martin Luther King knew all about it. I hear the same complaints about politicians that you do. And while I understand them (I’ve complained plenty myself), the fact is that complaining accomplishes very little. And there is a very simple reason why complainers have no effect: Because the complainers keep ... MORE
The Power Of The State Vs The Power Of Love
by Robert Higgs. For thousands of years, philosophers have argued that society must invest great power in the rulers because only great power can hold back the forces of evil—violence, plunder, and disorder. They have often conceded, of course, that this solution does have an unfortunate aspect, namely, that with great power, the rulers themselves ... MORE
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