About Voting Reform
Our entire system is unfair, but not in the way FVC people imagine. It is unfair to everyone except our oligarchy, which it gives maximum opportunity to protect their interests.
best work
the stuff everybody seems to like, or are useful references.
Billionaire’s Basic Income
A Universal Basic Income is an income paid to everyone without conditions, and adequate to cover basic costs of living. Its real purpose is to simplify the problems of managing a complex, technological political economy, so as to comport fairness with efficiency.
2025 predictions and postdictions
The year 2020 marked the end of the post world war two era. This was the period of relative peace and stability which came out of the settlement of 1945. That settlement has now broken down and we are in a new interregnum until a new stability can be established.
About Journalism, Blogging, Truth, and Democracies
Mainstream journalist’s conceits are becoming more patently ridiculous. That is, that they constitute a ‘fifth estate’, that they are somehow important to democracy, that we actually live in a democracy.
The Human Race
This is the way we must define humans. We can all interbreed. It has nothing to do with ability to speak or even to use tools and fire. If we start thinking that way, we know where it leads.
The Magician, the Artisan, China, The West, and the Scientific Revolution.
There is one very valuable and unique thing which western civilization has given the world. That is, the scientific revolution. This enabled the huge advance in technology and standard of living which most of the world now enjoys.
After Israel
Israel has no right to exist. No national state does. Only humans have rights. States come in and out of existence all the time.
Israel is ending. A state of Palestine is coming into existence. The process will be long, messy and unpredictable.