complexity

Today I was reading about a Stanford University professor called Robert Laughlin who thinks that, in a thousand years, all the carbon that we are mining today will be in the ocean.  We will either have mined all the available carbon energy sources or we will have decided to leave them alone.  The excess carbon… Continue reading complexity

the end of greed

Recently I read that the Amish (who are descendants of Swiss German emigrants) are an anarchist society.  I don’t really agree with that.  They maybe have little hierarchy and have limited acceptance of government but they live their lives according to religious dogma.  There are some anarchist aspects, I suppose, such as their sense of… Continue reading the end of greed