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Simples

Everything in the economy is created by fossil energy, as the supply dwindles the demand to consume pushes up the price, of everything. The demand to consume is a part of the dominant paradigm, which feeds on the illusion that all natural resources are free and infinitely substitutable. This is patently nonsensical but it has… Continue reading Simples

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Value III

I am not so sure Sonny, most business models disregard the energetic input available to reproduce cyberspace and consumption. Advertising simply uses natural resources to promote the further use of natural resources. If natural resources are limited, and I can assure you they are, then the business model actually has no social or environmental value.… Continue reading Value III

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Come you masters of war

Ah, a learned man, to paraphrase the "Thucydides trap" in postmodernist terms: 'What makes modern war inevitable is the commercial interest in war' The military industrial complex is what has caused the conflagration that is the "Arab Spring"', a trap well sprung indeed. What would peace profit the masters of war!   which is of… Continue reading Come you masters of war