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…
Social and Self-Help
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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 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…
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The Weight of Possession, the Lightness of Being
In the quiet of dawn, when the world is stripped bare, a man stands alone. He owns nothing but the breath in his lungs and the thoughts…
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The New Chain: Debt as Modern Servitude
There was once a time when a man worked for a company not only from dawn to dusk, but in sleep as well. His house was built…