The Century-Long Prisoner’s Dilemma That Now Threatens Us All
For the last hundred years, humanity has been caught in a slow-motion game of the prisoner’s dilemma; and the stakes have never been higher. First formalized in…
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Is There Meaning in Milk
There was a time when a man knew the name of the cow that gave him his milk. He knew the row where his tomatoes grew. He…
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The Landfill Economy and the Death of Meaning
We live in a time of abundance, or so we’re told. Never in human history have so many goods been so widely available, so cheaply produced, and…
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“Debt: The First 5,000 Years” by David Graeber – a review
In Debt: The First 5,000 Years, the late anthropologist David Graeber mounts an audacious and deeply researched challenge to one of the most fundamental assumptions of modern…
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In a Future Filled with Doubt, What Does It Mean to Be Human?: a book review
Neon Future, the brainchild of entrepreneur and self-proclaimed futurist Tom Bilyeu, isn’t so much a graphic novel as it is a manifesto in comic-book form. A manifesto…
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Saving Those Who Refuse to Swim
There comes a point when generosity begins to feel like self-harm. When the instinct to give, to lift, to offer, to patch the wounds of a society…
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Soap Operas for EVERYONE
In the trenches of our community resource center, an odd truth has become glaringly evident: some people seem to operate as if life is a soap opera,…
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The Echo Threshold
In the winter of 2012, when the world joked nervously about the end of the Mayan calendar, I didn’t laugh. It wasn’t fear, not exactly. It was…
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The High Cost of Inadaptability: Have We Lost the Will to Endure?
By any metric of historical progress, we live in extraordinary times. We have antibiotics, clean water, and global communication in the palm of our hands. Compared to…
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“The Dawn of Everything” Upends the Script—With a Smile
Every few years, a book arrives claiming to rewrite history. Most fade quietly into the footnotes. The Dawn of Everything, by the late anthropologist David Graeber and…