Author: Arthur Noll

Arthur Noll Some say there is nothing interesting on the internet. But, I’ve found the thinking at this web site to be very interesting.  It presents a simple theory by physicist, Lewis […]

Arthur Noll My response to the following post at the Alas Babylon Yahoo group:  “Hierarchy is something that keeps society secure. Any society without a clean chain of command is an anarchy, […]

Arthur Noll There has been a lot written about gift economies, but I haven’t been able to find many details about how it would work to overcome our problems.  It […]

Arthur Noll I believe Timothy and I are basically saying the same thing about reductionism and measurement.  We can more easily make mistakes in our understanding of complex systems, small […]

Arthur Noll Instead of arguing the virtues of the systems that have been tried, lets try looking at relationships on a very basic level. To have a relationship at the […]

Arthur Noll Once again, I must disagree with Dee Hock.  However, I also agree with him on something, as we will get to later in this article.  But I want […]

Arthur Noll In his essay Community Values, Dee Hock wrote: “In a true community, unity of the singular “one” and the plural “one” extends beyond people and things. It applies as […]

Arthur Noll Timothy brought up the question of good and evil, means and ends.  People often go around endlessly on these things, what they are and why.  I suspect that often […]

Arthur Noll Osama Bin Laden has been in the news a lot recently.  Whether he is in back of the recent attack or not, it seems worthwhile to note some […]

Arthur Noll Yes, this is a problem. People also look at how gasoline prices fell this summer, and how blackouts were avoided, and think that the basic problems are under […]