‘Society’ is the product of extroverts. Social change is the product of introverts.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Is greed such a powerful driving force behind free market society that it cannot be replaced by some other motive to do work? Like interesting jobs etc.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Money is a medium of exchange that allows a society to be more efficient. If Society is viewed as an organism that seeks to minimise the wastage of effort, money is the perfect mechanism for achieving that aim. If we were to assume that an endeavour that gave greater profit was more useful to society [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )There is a basic contradiction in both free market economics and command economics, which can only be reconciled by legislation that is informed by the principles of cybernetics and chaos theory etc. By legislation that seeks to provide free flow of information and cash, while at the same time reducing certain freedoms to exploit workers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )There are real boundaries to thought, that are genetically endowed in people. People who formulate new ideas may be either finding something that was always possible to think in all of us, or they may be mutants! They may even be aliens trying to subvert our culture. We should therefore subject all innovators in all [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )There has never been, and probably never will be, such a thing as “democracy.”
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Our cultural icon should be Mad Max rather than Don Quixote.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Taki says…
Software Engineering is a discipline, not a science. It takes more than mild (in)competence with a sophisticated tool to be scientist.
Software Engineering is a discipline, not an alchemy. All alchemists found meddling in my chosen discipline shall be flayed to within an inch of their sorry lives and then viciously prodded until they renounce their [...]
Welcome to the latest Froth/Forth site/blog
Consider this a joint opportunity to insert a lot of oblique strokes into a title and to resurrect nostalgically the good old days of spleen. What I expect is that this site will fill up with more and more expostulations of frustration and cataclisms of gleeful creativity. You won’t know whether to laugh, cry or [...]
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