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In public choice theory, “rational ignorance” refers to the choice not to inform oneself on some issue when the costs of doing so outweigh the benefits — in particular, when they outweigh the likelihood of one’s vote influencing the outcome of an election or one’s political pressure influencing a politician’s decisions. It also makes sense…
Rethinking Systems for Structuring Time
Rethinking systems for structuring and using time Time is fundamental for human existence and experience. Societal frameworks for structuring and understanding time and temporal experience have, however, remained stagnant and are potentially no longer fit for their intended purpose or, more importantly, the purposes we might intend for them at present. Indeed, when considering the…
Reconciling the Insights of Marx and George
A Comparative Review “Capital is dead labor, that, vampire-like, only lives by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.” – Karl Marx, Capital Volume One; Chapter 10 “The association of poverty with progress is the great enigma of our times . . . So long as all the increased wealth…
Landback: Abolishing Ethnonationalism and the Ethnostate
…With Particular Regard to the Israel-Palestine Conflict Click here to view or download the .pdf version. Introduction The central thesis of this paper – one which will be restated throughout – is the problematic nature of the nation-state, in the sense of a state or polity built around an official ethnicity. The ideology of ethnonationalism,…
