by Scott Howard Swain | Oct 25, 2024 | All Articles, Creativity, Culture, Economics, Feminism, Liberty, Life, Marxism, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Originally written in 2020. Updated often. Over the past ten years there has been a steep acceleration in what some call “cultural Marxism”, “identity politics”, tokenism, or “wokeness”. One form this has taken has been in films,...
by Scott Howard Swain | Sep 10, 2024 | All Articles, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Updated. Originally written in 2015. “But… I thought we need a government to incentivize, force, and punish some behaviors so the weak and poor are not trampled under the boots of those with more power?” It is a legitimate concern to worry about...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 22, 2024 | AI, All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Machine Learning, Marxism, ML, Politics, Privacy, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Congratulations, Citizen 08675309! Your life of ease and connection begins now! I’m your new humble, hyper-intelligent interpreting and filtering implant. You will expend less energy making boring, repetitive, or difficult daily decisions. You can call me your...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jun 9, 2020 | All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
or “Broken Window Fallacy” simplified by Scotter A window is broken. Is this a net negative or positive for the economy? Look to your intuition. Does this sound to you like a net negative or positive? Some such as Keynes and Krugman say: The net effect on...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 24, 2020 | All Articles, Culture, Economics, Liberty, Life, Marxism, Politics, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
Featured: Brave New World, the mini-series, 2020, Peacock network Sexy, high budget, well-written, and – like the book by Aldous Huxley – a commentary on how tyranny can arrive via comfort, ease, and pleasure. Looking at today’s rise in the seeking...
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