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so society seeks order in anarchy

“As man seeks jus­tice in equality, so so­ciety seeks order in an­archy.” – Pierre-Joeph Proudhon

“En­tirely in con­trast to the pop­ular con­cep­tion, an­ar­chism is prob­ably the most ide­al­istic and peaceful of po­lit­ical the­o­ries. As a phi­los­ophy, it as­sumes a system in which the in­di­vidual is free and living in peace; it looks for­ward to a time when human be­ings can co­exist within a frame­work of vol­un­tary associations.It [Read more] “so society seeks order in anarchy”

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the increasingly unequal states of america

IN­COME GROWTH HAS BEEN LOP­SIDED in the re­covery from the Great Re­ces­sion. In the new Eco­nomic Policy In­sti­tute (EPI) re­port ‘The In­creas­ingly Un­equal States of America,’ Mark Price and Es­telle Som­meiller find that be­tween 2009 and 2012, the top one per­cent (1%) cap­tured be­tween half and all in­come growth in 39 states—a con­tin­u­a­tion of a trend that pre­vailed in the three decades be­fore the recession. [Read more] “the increasingly unequal states of america”

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can’t see what forest for whose trees?

Fellow voters, Rep*blicans and De­moc­rats alike: we have all heard someone say, “There’s no dif­fer­ence be­tween the can­di­dates for ei­ther party.” Have you no­ticed that the only people who ever say any­thing that naïve are people who don’t vote?

“There’s not a dime’s worth of dif­fer­ence be­tween the De­mo­crat and Re­pub­lican par­ties!” [Read more] “can’t see what forest for whose trees?”

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Wikipedia collected knowledge of the world for us and by us

WIKIPEDIA HAS A BAD REP with a lot of people who should know better by now. As a quick source for back­ground in­for­ma­tion or to link a per­son’s name, a book, a movie, a lo­ca­tion, an event, etc, it simply cannot be beat. Nonethe­less, we have all heard and prob­ably said, “Oh, yeah. [Read more] “Wikipedia collected knowledge of the world for us and by us”