The Automatic Earth—Michel Foucault’s seminal work Discipline and Punish explored the extreme institutionalization of “discipline” in modern Western society, as best exemplified by the evolution of the modern penal system. […]
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A Future Discounted
Reposted from the December 02, 2010 edition of The Automatic Earth. Stoneleigh (Nicole Fosse) Humans are not good at the taking the long term view. Our ability to do so […]
Continue readingBe Love –> Do Good –> Have Everything
Timothy Wilken What do I mean by the phrase to Have Everything? It is simple really, if you choose to BE unconditional LOVE, if you choose to DO only GOOD, […]
Continue readingLeft Brain, Right Brain, and Ironies of the Heart
Timothy Wilken I have long been a fan of Leonard Shlain. Dr. Shlain was a polymath, surgeon, scientist, and best selling author. I say was, because I just learned today […]
Continue readingA New Theory of Money
Ellen Brown The reason our financial system has routinely gotten into trouble, with periodic waves of depression like the one we’re battling now, may be due to a flawed perception […]
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My twin brother Terry published a “tongue in cheek” economic blog called the Right Wing Wacko Newsletter from 2001 through 2007. Then he got distracted by other things. However, today […]
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Today’s essay is reposted from YES! Magazine. John Robbins When I was 21, I told my father that I didn’t want to work with him any longer at the ice […]
Continue readingEmail from Dan Bostan
Timothy Wilken I received the following note a few days ago. I think you may find it interesting. The writer is associated with an organization called Human Wisdom and one […]
Continue readingTime for a Synergic Future
P2P Foundation—Timothy Wilken, MD writes: “Market is unsustainable, inefficient, and enormously destructive to the biosphere. And, it is failing. There will be no solutions from Big government or from Big […]
Continue readingFinancial Euphoria
Timothy Wilken What is coming next? Some of our wisest humans warn that we are rapidly approaching a negative turning point in our economy. This downturn will result in a […]
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