I happen to be a bit of a student of history. As such, I’ve noticed that what we are witnessing in the United States (and much of the West, as I understand it) is a case study in the break down of civil society and the emergence of civil conflict. I imagine that if you […]
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It appears that at long last the popular sentiment seems to be boiling with enough intensity to (maybe) do something about the problem of social media. Good. It is high time. But, even if it turns out that we have reached the point where we are ready to do something, we come face to face with the
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It might very well be the case that 2018 will be known as the “Year of Jordan Peterson”. If you happen to have read anything that I’ve written, you will have noticed that I come from a very different place than Dr. Peterson. I spend most of my time in high abstraction, thinking about global
This series began in 2015 with an effort to do a broad assessment of the various risks present in the total global environment. Last year (almost precisely 365 days ago), I focused specifically on the political situation in the United States and outlined what I considered to be the essential fronts of a new and
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I would like to explore what I think is a useful distinction between “thinking” and a quite different phenomenon that might be best referred to as a “simulation of thinking”. First a quick clarification of two core concepts. This is easy. If you remember learning how to drive a car or ride a bike, you likely
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