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"The policy elites -- central bankers, finance minister, politicians who pose as defenders of fiscal virtue -- are acting like the priests of some ancient cult, demanding that we engage in human sacrifices to appease the anger of invisible gods."

Paul Krugman

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Larry Beinhart.

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NEW:   Fruit Flies in a Bottle.  Place a few fruit flies in a bottle and they will quickly multiply and then, just as quickly, die off to the very last. They can’t help it. They don’t know any better. Human beings are different. They can utilize their accumulated knowledge, evaluate evidence and apply reason.  But history teaches us that all too often, human beings simply refuse to apply these capacities and, like the mindless fruit flies, march blindly into oblivion.  Does this describe the human condition today?

REPRISE:  The Road to Catastrophe.  The economy of the United States, and by extension of the world, has arrived at the present crisis after traveling along a road marked with an abundance of warning signs. The American public has been led along this road to ruin by a set of dogmas that are unsupported by the historical record, by empirical evidence, and by practical experience. These dogmas include social atomism, market absolutism, and spontaneous order, and they are the foundation of libertarianism.  (From October 14, 2008.  See also, Theory vs. Reality: Why Market Absolutism Fails).

Conscience of a Progressive.
A Book in Progress
 

Bernard Weiner:

Come the Revolution: Are We There Yet?   The country is in such an economic and political mess that the "objective conditions" for potential revolution are increasingly visible. What the HardRight means by revolution (with its incitement to violence) is not what the progressive left means by that term. Here are some ideas for how to guide the movement toward a massive, non- violent restructuring of America's corrupt institutions

REPRISE:   Incremental Steps to "The Revolution"  If we can't get the full revolution of change, here are incremental steps that can be taken. This was written in 2007, and things in our country have gone from bad to worse to worst, so this take-it-slow approach may not seem to make as much sense any more. But you decide. (First published November 6, 2007)
 

Guest Essays -- Archive

September 8, 2010

 

NEW:  Ernest Partridge's Blog:  A tribute to a fallen friend, climate scientist Stephen Schneider.

Bernard Weiner's Blog:  A series of encounters over the weekend emphasized the necessity and strength of community and the principle of the "public good," a concept that is anathema to so many conservative Republicans.  All that plus George Clooney in "Up in the Air.