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Why the Future’s Broken (And How to Fix It) Here’s a tiny question. Do you like the way the world is going? I don’t — and I doubt you do either. But what’s really going wrong with it? And can we fix it? The more I think about it, the more I think that two … Read more

Or, Why America’s Melting Down Faster Than Anyone Believed Does anyone know what’s going to happen to America? Does America have a future? Or does it just collapse into…wait, what is it collapsing into, anyways? Let me ask you that another way. Are they authoritarians? Fascists? Nazis? Religious extremists? “Ethno-nationalist…

The Baffling, Toxic, Abusive Codependent Relationship We Don’t Understand Yet Over the past year or so, a fact has become increasingly clear. Authoritarian leaders share the classic characteristics of abusers. Authoritarians are abusers. Only they aren’t abusing a spouse, partner, or family — but a whole…

What Happens When Societies Don’t Invest in Civilizing Themselves? A friend, recently, told me a very interesting and telling story. She’d recently been in the States, where she was taking the subway to work, and she fell down, injuring her wrist. Not a single person helped her up — they all stared at her angrily … Read more

Why This is an Age of Tragedy, Dystopia, and Rage We seem to be stuck, you and I, in an age that’s hell-bent, dead-set on repeating on the mistakes of the past. The Greeks might have smiled, and called that tragedy. But not just any mistakes. The biggest and ugliest ones. The ones the world … Read more

Or, Why Individualism, Materialism, and Competition Won’t Create the Future When I consider about the American way of thinking about things — maybe even everything— it appears to me to boil down to three interlocking elements. Individualism. Competition. And materialism (not just as in “having more stuff” but as in “stuff is all there is” … Read more

Or, Why Authoritarian Might Just Last the Rest of Our Adult Lives America collapsing — 5000 dead in Puerto Rico. Italy retreating — extremists elected to high office. Protests in Brazil, not against military dictatorship, but for it. It’s looking apocalyptic out there.

Or, How American Collapse is Made of a New Kind of Poverty Consider the following statistics.The average American can’t scrape together $500 for an emergency. A third of Americanscan’t afford food, shelter, and healthcare.Healthcare for a family now costs $28k— about half of median income, which is $60k.

Or, Why You Can’t Fight Authoritarianism With Magic I recently read a funny and odd fact:Democrats have already lost their leadgoing into the next big elections in the States. How can that be? And yet it’s true across the globe. Liberals are losing, and authoritarians are winning — making inroads here…

Or, Why Mega-Scale Organizations Can’t Do Tomorrow’s Work Bigger, bigger, bigger. Better, right? We’ve lionized big, mega, huge-scale — businesses, institutions, organizations — over medium, small, and tiny. So much so, that for example, American legal and economic thought tends to favour the hugest monopolies, the playing field tilted way, way…