Do you suggest that the left is more comfortable with economic power being overturned, like a compost pile, producing yet more economic power?

Bullshit. The left literally invented marketplaces, impersonal trust (eg, signing contracts with strangers), accounting and financial mathematics, and modern legal system.

“There is likely to be one pileup of civilizations that don’t last very long — those that were “too dumb” — and a second pileup of civilizations that somehow figured it out, so to speak.”

This essay exemplifies the vanguard of our environmental movement. All effective action comes in the form of Aikido moves, redirecting existing energy. No person/group can create the energy required to form a new reality; it is necessary to harness the energy that already exists in the system.

Haha I understand 🤦‍♂️

1.26 average children born to a woman over her lifetime in Canada (for example) ✅

1.26% fertility rate in Canada ❌ just non-sensical, as you pointed out.

Gratzie 🙏🏽

What is wrong with the numbers? Or what is wrong (beyond the accompanying authoritarianism) with the presentation of the numbers? I am naive here; I had the impression that the fertility figures are roughly correct albeit incomplete and devoid of context.

…Many of those forums have withered under the pressures of mass society, mass media and now mass data, and with them, so too has the fabric of liberal democracy.”

By Andrew Sorota in @noemamag.com

www.noemamag.com/rescuing-dem...

It’s probably the most thought-provoking publication in my little world right now! So psyched.