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- Fuck the future.
- Something nobody knows: the relationship between the value of money and the value of underlying resources — the earth’s resources. Financialization is only the exponential obfuscation of already obscure rates of exchange.
- The longer the chain of trade, the greater the risk of ethical asymmetry, and the more negative externalities along the way.
- Over-reliance on wheat and rice, the first industrialized foods, fragilized food economies. Our current food economy is just a scaled up version of the original hypertrophied agricultures.
- Study relationships, inter-relationships not fixed, isolated abstractions.
- A good life is produced by the right ecology of Pragmata — not by adherence to a singular idea.
- When jargon becomes a signifier of education, the education must make a point of speaking clearly.
- Scientism enforces a false choice between transcending or breaking — and tells us its wrong to bend. Scientism straightens all our circles into lines.
- It’s not inconsistent to say a laborer should read Marx and an investor Hayek; a thinker’s thought is always relative — even when they pretend to be universal. Relativized, and placed properly, problematic thinkers become quite useful.
- Scientific medicine should be a backbone, a backup strategy, not a habit.
- When there is demand in the north, there is destabilization in the south.
- The difference between the global north and south isn’t simply temperature or climate — it’s disease.
- Cancer and obesity are the logical outcomes of the poorly named ‘Green Revolution.’
- If you want to destroy a natural cycle — and be destroyed by it — just try to tame it.
