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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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. The book sparked a lot of controversy of course, regarding what was on the list or off…

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

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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. Mithra has or…

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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Jun 27

Of Powers and Dimensions

You will find passages in Synergetics wherein Fuller is indeed exploring the growth rates associated with expanding outward and he anticipates fractal growth by packing more and more “between the balls” of a conventional 3rd power growth rate (in volume). That would correspond to upping the dimension number from “within”…

Synergetics

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Jun 22

Rambling in the Silicon Forest

Those of us who read philosophy, which comes in many flavors, may have stumbled upon Ludwig Wittgenstein and his showing versus telling. One may tell and tell until the cows come home, meaning indefinitely and ineffectually, however a simple act of showing will clear the cobwebs away in short order. …

Silicon Forest

7 min read

Jun 19

The US Empire Acts Like A Textbook Manipulative Sociopath

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Caitlin Johnstone

North America groomed its own subversive lineages, Masons at one point, required for the necessary…

North America groomed its own subversive lineages, Masons at one point, required for the necessary ferment, e.g. Transcendentalists in Whitman's time, up through leftist Rorty (one of my Princeton profs), but arguing indigenous American leftists could get by without the Marxism (a Eurasian import). With The Dawn of Everything (Graeber…