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“Omnilog” and Deep Reflection

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLlQnynlkig&feature=youtu.be Deep Reflection and Omnilog (Video 6 minutes) “Omnilog” and Deep Reflection Regular readers of this page know that the Compression Institute advocates radical change toward regenerating ecology. Progress...

How It Is, or How It Shouldn’t Be?

The 48 Laws of Power, by Robert Greene This book is 18 years off the press, but it was recommended by Lonnie Wilson as being highly popular with business readers, so I read it, or most of it. Robert Greene, the author, has made a career of writing power-oriented books...

Jackson Rising, by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya

A Plan for a New Economy? Jackson Rising: The Struggle for Economic Democracy and Black Self-Determination in Jackson, Mississippi, by Kali Akuno and Ajamu Nangwaya This book drew interest because of rumors that Jackson, MS was a rapidly rising experiment in localized...

Preparing for the Unthinkable

https://youtu.be/gGsGm6TMpFc Preparing for the Unthinkable (Video 5 minutes) Can Compression Thinking help navigate a future limited by resource shortages and ecological degradation? Such foreboding seems unthinkable. How can we defy our human instincts and learn to...

Be Prepared

The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes - and Why by Amanda Ripley All the way through, Amanda Ripley’s book reminded this reviewer of the Boy Scout motto, “Be Prepared. And for what? For anything, of course. The expanded explanation is, “you are always in...

When Assumptions Fail Us

Ethical Asset Valuation and the Good Society (Kenneth J. Arrow Lecture Series) by Christian Gollier Christian Gollier is Vice President of the Toulouse School of Economics in France. He is a recognized scholar on the economics of climate change, having participated in...

Cycles of Evolution

https://youtu.be/wMQbzK5bpJE Cycles of Evolution (Video 9 minutes) Cycles of Evolution Do human societies evolve in cycles similar to Punctuated Equilibrium in the biological theory of evolution? Or are they different? Here “punctuated” means “puncture,” a huge...

Misled by the Models

J is for Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception by Michael Hudson Michael Hudson was a Wall Street analyst for years before turning academic – and turning against Wall Street. He’s lived in the dens of Wall Street and delved into economic history...

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