Curious Yogini

Sunday, June 3, 2018

Bullshit Jobs and the Pseudo-Knowledge Economy

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How is it possible that nobody noticed when humanity passed a threshold as significant as the industrial revolution or arguably even the ne...
Monday, July 8, 2013

Beyond Hollowed Out Democracy and the Class Stood on Its Head

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Perhaps the most important task in first world societies right now is to dismantle and disperse the multifaceted spell of cynicism and socia...
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Friday, May 24, 2013

We don't suppress our Awakening, we lose track of it

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Many of us come in as infants with a greater connection with Awakening.  You can see it in some children's faces.   But as we grow older...
Thursday, December 20, 2012

Did Sauron Have Middle Earth Consciousness?

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For that matter, did Lord Voldemort have global consciousness? When the elites of the economically advanced nations break their commitments...
Sunday, May 20, 2012

"Making money" is the deepest, most broadly shared religious value in America

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I have been thinking a lot about why it has come to this. Why are Americans as a people in particular so weak and vulnerable, so thoroughly...
Monday, May 7, 2012

The contradiction for actual progressives

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(Cross posted from Naked Capitalism) I agree that the article that Lambert links to and highly recommends by Sterling Newberry is well wor...
Sunday, January 22, 2012

Piracy, Anti-Piracy, and the Roots of the Stagnation

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Piracy and the willingness to inflict any amount of damage to stop it both arise from the deep structure of society of the past 4 or so deca...
Tuesday, August 23, 2011

The Emperor's New Clothes

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After a blogger claimed that the Emperor had no clothes on, Republicans rushed to denounce the Democratic Party as a hotbed of anti-Emperor ...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Muggles sacrificed on the altar of the balance budget

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There is a reason why the current economic orthodoxy makes sense to people but MMT is a hard sell. Yes, there is active propaganda and there...

Failure to incredulate

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There is a reason why the current economic orthodoxy makes sense to people but MMT is a hard sell. Yes, there is active propaganda and t...

Life among the muggles

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Most people I have known, even just from reading their posts, who are active in politics or spirituality, find themselves in a position a ...

If a money tree falls in an MMT forest

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, but no one hears it, does it still pay the wages for all the laid-off teachers and firemen? Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) says that for a p...
Friday, December 3, 2010

Solutions will create their own demand

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Cross-posted from http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/ in response to link to http://www.thomaspalley.com/?p=179 From Deaf to History’s Rhyme: W...
Tuesday, September 28, 2010

why-is-there-no-political-outlet-for-anger-on-the-left-these-days (Posted on "Naked Capitalism")

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Deep structural changes that our understanding has not fully kept up with. 1) Since the right wing basically is offering a return to what Am...
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Sunday, September 12, 2010

Monetizabilitization

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Economic effort whose purpose is to make it possible to make money from something that would otherwise have to be given away for free. A gr...

Maslowian alienation

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To identify so strongly with a higher level on the Maslow scale of needs that one does not notice the failure to meet needs on a lower level...
Thursday, September 9, 2010

If I am inherently a Buddha, why should my life be organized around the demands of social institutions and individuals who say I am not?

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1) From the perspective of any social system built around anything other than universal Buddhanature/inherent human perfection, this is the...
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Monday, August 9, 2010

Historical background to court ruling on marriage equality (Prop 8)

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Even though opposition to gay marriage has been a primary outlet for fear of change and fear of The Other for some years now, this is an iss...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

Jessica's Lighthouse Theory of Economics

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The global economy is like an old-fashioned light house that turns around and around, shining its light now here and now there. In the la...

Ego, conscious individuals, and conscious society

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To see the ego (or whatever we choose to call the aspects of the self seen as less true) as any kind of obstacle or obstruction needing to ...

Harry Potter and how the next society emerges

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The transition into the conscious human society is unlikely to look like any classical revolution. Frontal, confrontational social battles...

Waits for No One

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He is sitting in the waiting room. He feels like he has been sitting there forever. It is strange that there is no one else there. He lo...
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