Jonathan Trautman
@jonathantdotexe.bsky.social
lover of wisdom, seeker of truth, natural philosophy, oikonomia, biophysical limits, ecology, thermodynamics, neoplatonism, zen, stoicism, socialism and the anthropological lens
The pandemic is manifestly not over & risk reduction is the rational disposition If you are not masking now it is because you are a nervous social conformer or you've been gaslit by morons into believing you should square up against multiple reinfections of a systemic vasculitis
October 2, 2023 at 2:52 PM
The pandemic is manifestly not over & risk reduction is the rational disposition If you are not masking now it is because you are a nervous social conformer or you've been gaslit by morons into believing you should square up against multiple reinfections of a systemic vasculitis
Here's why I think about the Roman empire everyday
youtu.be/C9xhjmIvVsM
youtu.be/C9xhjmIvVsM
September 25, 2023 at 8:30 AM
Here's why I think about the Roman empire everyday
youtu.be/C9xhjmIvVsM
youtu.be/C9xhjmIvVsM
Neoliberalism destroyed education and intellectualism as anything except tributary to profit thereby making them structurally stupid
September 19, 2023 at 6:16 PM
Neoliberalism destroyed education and intellectualism as anything except tributary to profit thereby making them structurally stupid
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Working from home can reduce climate emissions.
Working from home keeps employees and their families safer from COVID-19.
But CEOs are forcing workers to return to the office so that they can protect real estate profits.
Working from home keeps employees and their families safer from COVID-19.
But CEOs are forcing workers to return to the office so that they can protect real estate profits.
September 19, 2023 at 7:34 AM
Working from home can reduce climate emissions.
Working from home keeps employees and their families safer from COVID-19.
But CEOs are forcing workers to return to the office so that they can protect real estate profits.
Working from home keeps employees and their families safer from COVID-19.
But CEOs are forcing workers to return to the office so that they can protect real estate profits.
Self conscious political action and modes of socioeconomic rearrangement + living are possible & the concept of self is an illusory amalgam of subpersonas that represents convolutedly interconnected clusters of neurons in the process of allostasis & homeodynamics being is enough
September 16, 2023 at 8:32 PM
Self conscious political action and modes of socioeconomic rearrangement + living are possible & the concept of self is an illusory amalgam of subpersonas that represents convolutedly interconnected clusters of neurons in the process of allostasis & homeodynamics being is enough
sociocultural expectations & conditioning that we use to form our fantastic notions are the only substance of the story of self, but that story is baseless, ridiculous and corrupt the philosophers of the axial age figured this out before neuroscience confirmed "self" is fiction
September 16, 2023 at 8:32 PM
sociocultural expectations & conditioning that we use to form our fantastic notions are the only substance of the story of self, but that story is baseless, ridiculous and corrupt the philosophers of the axial age figured this out before neuroscience confirmed "self" is fiction
We are mostly made of microorganisms with nonhuman DNA. We require ecological dialectical relations to exist and modern neuroscience shows the narrative of self to be fictitious in concert with the assertions of the axial age philosophers One need not conform to expectation to be
September 16, 2023 at 8:32 PM
We are mostly made of microorganisms with nonhuman DNA. We require ecological dialectical relations to exist and modern neuroscience shows the narrative of self to be fictitious in concert with the assertions of the axial age philosophers One need not conform to expectation to be
September 10, 2023 at 5:01 PM
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every now and then, the Fed quietly acknowledges the dystopia
September 1, 2023 at 4:47 PM
every now and then, the Fed quietly acknowledges the dystopia
I'm bracing myself for all the posts about everybody knows which social media platform did what and where everyone is going in the cyber diaspora
August 18, 2023 at 7:57 PM
I'm bracing myself for all the posts about everybody knows which social media platform did what and where everyone is going in the cyber diaspora
But can we save Tamineh from the clutches of Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek
There isn’t a single lawyer in the world that will go on Fox News? The best they can do is a law student? Even best friend of Epstein and always available media hound Dershowitz wasn’t available?
August 18, 2023 at 6:30 AM
But can we save Tamineh from the clutches of Adam Smith and Friedrich Hayek
We ablate the spirits of intuition with cold calculation and cure the soul with draughts of envy.
August 17, 2023 at 8:06 AM
We ablate the spirits of intuition with cold calculation and cure the soul with draughts of envy.
The ideology of exchange for profit has permeated all aspects of living, & has taken hold in our minds, such & to the point, that we have allowed it to cause rifts between families & communities of all kinds. Human beings are forgetting how to be human & how to be together.
August 17, 2023 at 8:06 AM
The ideology of exchange for profit has permeated all aspects of living, & has taken hold in our minds, such & to the point, that we have allowed it to cause rifts between families & communities of all kinds. Human beings are forgetting how to be human & how to be together.
A disturbing amount of modern human thought is done squarely within the lines drawn by marketeers, billionaires, their millionaire punditry class, the corporate media, commercialism, and established hegemonic structures Very good for business Very bad for being human
August 16, 2023 at 2:24 AM
A disturbing amount of modern human thought is done squarely within the lines drawn by marketeers, billionaires, their millionaire punditry class, the corporate media, commercialism, and established hegemonic structures Very good for business Very bad for being human
Capitalism drives excess consumption even further
and reduces us
to those things it teaches us
to tell ourselves we are
and reduces us
to those things it teaches us
to tell ourselves we are
August 10, 2023 at 3:51 AM
Capitalism drives excess consumption even further
and reduces us
to those things it teaches us
to tell ourselves we are
and reduces us
to those things it teaches us
to tell ourselves we are
It has been brought to my attention that Venus is in retrograde this Leo season
August 9, 2023 at 5:18 AM
It has been brought to my attention that Venus is in retrograde this Leo season
Capitalism is not the best market and monetary framework, but it does seem to be the most violent; it is perhaps second only to neofeudalism and necrocapitalism
August 6, 2023 at 7:52 PM
Capitalism is not the best market and monetary framework, but it does seem to be the most violent; it is perhaps second only to neofeudalism and necrocapitalism
None of us knows
Uncertainty the norm
No universal algorithm for success
The decision you make is the best
Uncertainty the norm
No universal algorithm for success
The decision you make is the best
August 6, 2023 at 2:40 AM
None of us knows
Uncertainty the norm
No universal algorithm for success
The decision you make is the best
Uncertainty the norm
No universal algorithm for success
The decision you make is the best
It is the same flatline on the marginal product return curve, the complexity curve and the consequent collapse of complex civilization We are like the red queen running faster and faster just to stay in place We are aggressively metabolizing all we can just to preserve complexity
August 3, 2023 at 3:32 AM
It is the same flatline on the marginal product return curve, the complexity curve and the consequent collapse of complex civilization We are like the red queen running faster and faster just to stay in place We are aggressively metabolizing all we can just to preserve complexity
that it is a prevailing
spirit of communism,
and not exchange,
that makes possible
the best things in life
spirit of communism,
and not exchange,
that makes possible
the best things in life
August 3, 2023 at 3:28 AM
that it is a prevailing
spirit of communism,
and not exchange,
that makes possible
the best things in life
spirit of communism,
and not exchange,
that makes possible
the best things in life
Feels like weak liberal elites have not learned the lessons of Weimar! If you do not address the material concerns of the population, if you do not address the perceptions and feelings, needs and desires of the people, you will get revolution or fascism! We have seen this before!
August 3, 2023 at 3:27 AM
Feels like weak liberal elites have not learned the lessons of Weimar! If you do not address the material concerns of the population, if you do not address the perceptions and feelings, needs and desires of the people, you will get revolution or fascism! We have seen this before!
even when labor can be socioculturally and psychologically viewed as useful/meaningful, that is no guarantee of its being good for people, for ecology, for society, etc.,on those merits alone
Think of how the Romans overworked the soil
there is respected counterproductive labor as well
Think of how the Romans overworked the soil
there is respected counterproductive labor as well
August 3, 2023 at 3:27 AM
even when labor can be socioculturally and psychologically viewed as useful/meaningful, that is no guarantee of its being good for people, for ecology, for society, etc.,on those merits alone
Think of how the Romans overworked the soil
there is respected counterproductive labor as well
Think of how the Romans overworked the soil
there is respected counterproductive labor as well
Economics is a system of human social relations, of sociocultural and psychological traditions, and tendencies. We must not let our conventions be our undoing. Some labor is wasteful, much labor is wasteful and predatory. Let's focus on wellness flourishing felicity+human dignity
August 3, 2023 at 3:26 AM
Economics is a system of human social relations, of sociocultural and psychological traditions, and tendencies. We must not let our conventions be our undoing. Some labor is wasteful, much labor is wasteful and predatory. Let's focus on wellness flourishing felicity+human dignity
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Are we locked into the maximum power principle and Klieber's law? Will we always act, as dissipative structures seem to, in order to maximize energy consumption? Can degrowth or postgrowth economies be run in ways that don't exhaust to the point of ecological overshoot? How can we overcome ourselves
August 2, 2023 at 4:01 PM
Are we locked into the maximum power principle and Klieber's law? Will we always act, as dissipative structures seem to, in order to maximize energy consumption? Can degrowth or postgrowth economies be run in ways that don't exhaust to the point of ecological overshoot? How can we overcome ourselves
This has been one of the most cathartic and interesting reads of my life
It so wonderfully synthesizes a beautiful constellation and web of facts throughout the cyclic march of monetary and moral philosophical religious sociocultural and mass psychological history
Just straight truthjuice!loved it
It so wonderfully synthesizes a beautiful constellation and web of facts throughout the cyclic march of monetary and moral philosophical religious sociocultural and mass psychological history
Just straight truthjuice!loved it
August 1, 2023 at 4:48 AM
This has been one of the most cathartic and interesting reads of my life
It so wonderfully synthesizes a beautiful constellation and web of facts throughout the cyclic march of monetary and moral philosophical religious sociocultural and mass psychological history
Just straight truthjuice!loved it
It so wonderfully synthesizes a beautiful constellation and web of facts throughout the cyclic march of monetary and moral philosophical religious sociocultural and mass psychological history
Just straight truthjuice!loved it