“Men do not actually search history to avoid the mistakes of the past. They seek convenient analogies to show the dangers in failing to adopt the creed which they advocate.”

—Thurmon W. Arnold, The Folklore of Capitalism, 1937

"Debt is a claim of ownership by the wealthy of the productive capacity of other people."
--Ben G. Price, "How Wealth Rules the World"

Horned lark, just south of Malta, Montana

Sunset over the prairie, eastern Montana

“Capital transforms what is alive into resources that can be sold, and as a result, profound human needs for connection, . . . for a true place of one’s own, for the experience of identity-in-connection, grow increasingly difficult to satisfy.”
—Andreas Weber, Enlivenment