This is a paragraph from the blog I’m recommending. It’s just a sample and the rest of the article is just as good. Reading Geopolicraticus is taking a tour in a dozen different fields of endeavor. I recommend it.

In the US, fear of loss of one’s job, fear of poverty, fear of homelessness, is real and palpable. Talk to people and you will hear it in their voices and see it in their faces. It is one of the things that makes life in the US a little bit weird at times, as when you see people spiraling out of control over little things (like the current tempest in a teapot over TSA screeners) and it becomes all-too-apparent from a studied distance that this is misplaced anxiety that, according to a classic psychodynamic model, is being expressed in a safe way, because one cannot express one’s fear directly because that would call into question the foundations upon which one has constructed one’s life.

James Pilant

Monday In the early stages of the Computer Age there were punched paper cards that held data, and in order for the data to be correctly read by the machine the punched cards needed to be kept flat and in good shape. It came to be the custom to print on these punched cards "Do not fold, spindle, or mutilate." In an early protest against the growing anonymity, depersonalization, and dehumanization of the Machine Age, a slogan began making the round … Read More

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