Social Systems
Democracy Without the Majoritarian Abuse of Power
While people have tried to critique or defend populism, it has just become necessary in democracies because it helps whip...
Social Systems
Who, Where or What is This Miraculous Ethical Source of Funding?
Edge.org, according to their website, "was launched in 1996 as the online version of 'The Reality Club' and as a...
Social Systems
Violence in Numbers
Studies are regularly commissioned that talk of the economic losses incurred by societies due to violence in society like war...
Social Systems
A Permanent Relief Funding Mechanism
Does capitalism work? This question should not be considered only as a foil to the question ‘does communism work?’ These two ideas, both with their own history of spectacular failures, have to be unentangled. Capitalism does not work for all of the people all of the time. By that simple and fundamental measure, it is not a good social system. That capitalism persists is forwarded as proof that the people have chosen it over communism.
Social Systems
Theorising Systemic Change
The term 'abject poverty' usually invokes an image of dirty-filthy slums in third-world countries. But cleaning up these slums only...
Social Systems
Thinking Together: Textual and Dimensional Scaffolding For Thought
Pronouncements of self-avowed heterodox thinking on an assortment of topics, like race, gender, sexuality, religion, academia, freedom, and others, have...
Social Systems
Economics is Not a Mathematical Science
A lot of science is merely mathematical speculation. Only when verified by experimental observation in the real world is any...
Social Systems
Discursive Incoherence
We live in circumstances that should not exist by the very definition of civilisation. A lot of situations that are...