So what this calls to mind is the question of what a right actually is. I get the feeling that a right is defined sort of like how Saint Augustine defined time, namely, we function as if we know what it is until we try to define it (or, to reference Donald Rumsfeld, it’s the missing corner of his graph: the Unknown Known.)
Read MoreIn 1969, three men rode a sky-scraper sized explosive device to the moon using less computing power to do the math than I currently have sitting in my pocket, and made it back alive. Three years later, in 1972, the most progressive major party candidate lost a stolen election by a landslide, and America turned its back on the future.
Read MoreIf you have to come back and play this game tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, then there is only one sensible strategy: cooperate. Accept the lesser reward, and get it tomorrow. Because there’s no reason to trust a betrayer when they come back for another round of the game. But I’m still left with another question: what does it do? What is society even for?
Read More“It seems to me that if an impoverished person is no longer impoverished, they retain the traumatic awareness of money and its lack. It is inscribed on the body invisibly, in the nerves and adrenal glands, but it is inscribed.”
Read MoreThe things we make — the things you can just go down to the store and buy if you don’t have them — are made to fulfill a certain set of needs, solve a certain set of problems, and — ultimately — generate a certain set of changes on the mind. A lot of these changes are unconsidered.
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