Stefan Morales

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The “US Administration” is a social object. This is a bit further than saying it’s a social construction. Yes, it wouldn’t exist without us humans to “language it”. No, it is not inconsequential as a result of that dependency.

Intelligence is to knowledge work what electricity was to industrial work.

"I had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth." - Kilgore Trout (Vonnegut)

Watch disruptions in pricing around things like mobile phones, personal electronics, etc. - it’s at the small, individual level of the panarchy where swarming and emergent phenomena will likely have the greatest influence on larger scales of the panarchy.

Modern political theories tend to be of the variety that somehow ‘put themselves out of business’ if they achieve their aims. The gospel (finally) fully saturating the social fabric. Universalism masquerading as purpose and goodwill.

Perhaps Trump is (stupidly) trying to pressure fed to decrease interest rates to reduce the interest charged on the national debt? If that’s the “4D chess move” then it’s dumb because Tariff’s will increase inflation, which the fed would increase rates to tackle.

so that’s the secret!

"To have accomplished nothing and to die overworked." - Cioran

he’s trying to lower the interest on the national debt. best explanation so far. or stock market fire sale.

i know about this, it's fantastic. warms the cockles of my heart. i just long for more voices around de-escalation, etc. so i'm adding mine

the corporation, a ~200 year old “social innovation” well past its prime

(i’m in bed, so sorry for the projection 😅)

so there’s no possibility for a new movement? for the masses to say no? it’s just time to text in bed?

i hope nobody kicks anyone’s asses! LOL 2020s be like: all countries in a parking lot, leaning on piles of nukes while bucking at each other. press shouts “fight!” and we all come rushing.

onion-level juxtaposition

Where is our demilitarization movement? Remember the peace movement of the 60’s, or the anti-nukes folks of the 80s. We are truly sleepwalking at this point.

also I remember protesting in the streets against WTO and NAFTA: free trade used to represent the consolidation of transnational capital, and the risk of oligarchs amassing power, etc. 20-30 years later…

where’s our peace movement? if trade war escalates, how far do we go? sure, orange man bad, but we need to be mobilizing a different discourse here. the algorithms and the press and the attention economy love the bellicose spirit of the age. internet folk need to re-mobilize for peace.

Education is about getting things right, experience is about getting things right AND getting things wrong.

The news: everything about nothing, nothing about everything.

The pinnacle of civilization is behind a paywall.

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