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Can Radical Transformation be Peaceful?

Ages of Discord: A Structural-Demographic Analysis of American History, by Peter Turchin Peter Turchin is Professor of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, and a founder of “Cliodynamics,” mathematical modeling of long-term social processes. You...

What Shall We Call Progress?

https://youtu.be/hG6_jhp5xGY Building a Railroad: What is Progress? (Video 5 minutes) What Shall We Call Progress?  Anthropologists have long noted that indigenous tribes live much more in the now than moderns. Consequently, their sense of time is much less acute, and...

Commoditization in Crisis

A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things: A Guide to Capitalism, Nature, and the Future of the Planet by Raj Patel and Jason Moore A three-minute video blaring the theme of this book is the first video scrolling down Raj Patel’s home page. On the faculty of the...

Addiction

Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs by Johann Hari Johann Hari’s book interested me for four reasons; the first is that the author is a very talented, but tarnished young British writer. He won a number of writing awards in his first job,...

Constant Disruption: Continuous Adaptation

https://youtu.be/IoHwTYrEWg8 Coffee With Doc: Revolutionary Philosophy (Video 6 minutes) Constant Disruption: Continuous Adaptation Big environmental problems from every direction are hemming in high consumption economies and societies. We tend to nod in agreement...

Business Uncertainty and Compression Thinking

https://youtu.be/3st-Mb1Z9wo Coffee With Doc - Compression Thinking (Video 7 minutes) Compression Institute Founder Doc Hall and Filmmaker Ethan Berry talk about Compression Thinking. Business Uncertainty and Compression Thinking Ours is a time of great uncertainty,...

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