Kirby Urner

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GST versus Econ

Perhaps you’ve heard me share this reasoning already: Economists almost universally decry monopoly as a recipe for inefficiency and as discouraging of innovation. By this reasoning, should not Economics, the discipline itself, have at least one competitor? Enter GST (general systems theory). That GST would compete with Economics is innovation…

Economics

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Sep 12

Philosophy: Is Nature Not Using Pi?

My attitude is “duh, that’s obvious” and I don’t see a need to lift a finger. We don’t need more contorted logic and/or heroic polemics at this point. That’s just my personal view of course. …

6 min read

Aug 27

The UBI in GST

Calls for a UBI (universal basic income) have subsided, now that the Yang Gang has been put to bed. “What are we paying people for?” is the typical question. …

Universal Basic Income

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Aug 25

Place Based Education

You will have no trouble Googling up a ton of YouTubes on what some consider a rather faddish notion: that one’s own time and place might be a core anchor point, a theme even, for a whole curriculum. No, it’s not just about community service, although that figures into it. …

Education

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Aug 9

Exploring the New Bucky Bio

Right around the time Alec’s new Bucky bio showed up from Powell’s (shipment to my home address vs the local branch was somehow mandatory if I used PayPal) I had gone back into studying Ouspensky + Gurdjieff in earnest, again through a Jungian lens, although this time not that of…

Biography

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Jul 13

Literacy Wars

Do you remember when the book Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know came out, by E.D. Hirsch Jr.? If so, you go back a long way (to 1987), as I do. …

World Game

7 min read

Jul 11

from the blogosphere…

from the blogosphere… Magical Incantations The rulers scour the landscape for whom the true believers are following. Having zealots and fanatics on one’s side is a double edge sword, but there’s always postponing the day of reckoning. No one is really ready for Judgement Day, when it comes. Wittgenstein was more of…

Nationalism

6 min read

Jul 11

Of Myth and Mithra

Not that many people know that Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a research paper on Mithraism. Those studying to become ministers of a religion frequently get assigned, or freely choose, to study some other religion and in MLK’s case, the religion of Mithra was one of them. …

Mithraism

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Jul 5

I think it's less complicated.

I think it's less complicated. Ukraine's central government, right wing nationalist, ever since the coup in 2014, was hell bent on (a) taking military action to retake Crimea and (b) joining NATO. That was a recipe for a direct Russia-NATO conflict. Crimea and the Donbas rejected the 2014 coup, as…

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GST versus Econ

Philosophy: Is Nature Not Using Pi?

The UBI in GST

Place Based Education

Exploring the New Bucky Bio

Literacy Wars

from the blogosphere…

Of Myth and Mithra

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I think it's less complicated.