People have become so machinelike that that the most human character will turn out to be a machine. As busy prosumers now sometimes volunteer their machines, instead of their labor, they are uncooking the books. The best-know case is that of SETI, the search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. While the likelihood of our discovering life elsewhere, … Continue reading
I Never Found a Man Who Knew How to Love Himself
It is important to look at the error in which one has lived in, and it will reveal so much to one. When the heart rises up in one, and one is pricked in one’s reins, often it is discovered how brutish one was and ignorant has been as a beast before the World. In … Continue reading
Summoned to Join the Waiting Throng of His Ancestors
Underneath all the stories there does lie something differ from the tales. How different? In this—that the thing which is invoked is an object of a different nature, however it may put on the appearance of the most beautiful and bizarre mansion in all of the World or indulge in its servants their human appetites. … Continue reading
More Information Can Mean Less Knowledge
When Rosalyn Bettiford, a forty-seven-year-old editor, arrived at her weekend house in Washington, Connecticut—a two-hour drive from Manhattan—the July night had turned chilly. Her teenage son was asleep in his bedroom. The living room was dark. As her eyes adjusted, she noticed that one of the big sliding-glass windows was wide open. She reached for … Continue reading
The Deepest Experience is the Pleasant Sentiment of Existence
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise human doubts often, and changes one’s mind; the unwise individual is obstinate, and doubts not; one knows all things but one’s own unenlightenment. As you know, self-consumers have a self-production supply below the self-consumption demand for a good or service. In turn, this is called prosuming, … Continue reading
And this Digital-Entertainment Thing is Only Getting Bigger
Conventional economics looks at purchases like these as consumption. However, there is a completely different way of thinking about them. What they really represent is a large-scale investment in capital goods that increase the still largely unmeasured value of their prosumer output. Today, in advanced economies, an inventory of capital goods found in an ordinary … Continue reading
Clear Reasoning Will Wipe that Slate Clean
Once the World has been purged of ghosts and spirits, it reveals to us that the critical problem is scarcity. Nature is a stepmother who has left us unprovided for. However, this means we need have no gratitude. When we revered nature, we were poor. Since there was not enough, we had to take from … Continue reading
Suburbs in the Sky
There are some serious arguments for us to consider when dealing with the revolutionaries who accepted our principles of freedom and equality. Many believed that we had not thought through these cherished ideals. Can equality really only mean equal opportunity for unequal talents to acquire property? Should shrewdness at acquisition be better rewarded than moral … Continue reading
What, We Wondered, Had Happened to the Young Lady?
In America, the elite, the top one percent of earners, no matter what their race is are considered the cream of the crop. America is a capitalistic society where the dollar is king. Much immigration followed the end of slavery because people need to new supply of labor. Since then, America has become a diverse … Continue reading
By Birth Torn Between Two Worlds
For the most part we understand only gradually the decisive experiences which we have in our relation with the World. First, we accept what they seem to offer us, we express it, we weave it into a “view,” and then think we are aware of our World. However, we come to see that what we … Continue reading