equality
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On ‘The Dawn of Everything’ and the Future.
If farmers lived in miserable societies, how did they conquer the world?
A New History of Humanity, Against the Grain, Appiah, building walls, capitalism, China, Civilization, civilizations collapse, climate change, climate justice, collaboration, collapse of civilizations, competition, David Deutsch, David Graeber, David Wengrow, Digging for Utopia, economic systems, economics, efficiency, entropy, equality, European expansion, expansion, farming, first peoples, fishing with a frying pan, freedom, Graeber, growth, heat death, history of civilization, history of farming, history of technology, human evolution, human prehistory, hunter-gatherers, in praise of inefficiency, inequality, James Scott, John Smith, justice, Kwame Anthony Appiah, land management, Maggie Nelson, Matt Siegel, mutual aid, Naomi Klein, Native Americans, On Freedom, origin of civilization, origin of inequality, origin of patriarchy, paleolithic diet, patriarchy, pilgrims, political philosophy, prehistoric diet, prehistoric farmers, prehistory, prehistory of farming, property systems, review, technology, The Beginning of Infinity, The Dawn of Everything, The Secret History of Food, United States, Universal Paperclip, Utopian philosophy, Wengrow
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On power and dignity in defeat.
Winning is pretty easy. It takes effort to get there, but once we’ve done it, most people can act with grace. It reveals more about a person’s character to see how they handle defeat. In the Christian bible, Jesus is a more compelling character than Yahweh. Jesus faces adversity, which sometimes he accepts calmly –…
Americans love a winner, anti-racism, Aryan, Aryan supremacy, ban the box, books to prison, books to prisoners, Christianity, Deadpool, death of Thor, defeat, dignity in defeat, education, equality, equity, felony, George Patton, gods die, growth, heroes, incarceration, Independently Blue, inequality, inequity, jail, jail poetry, Jesus, Jesus losing his temper, Julien Poirier, Laughing Shall I Die, learning, loser, losing, mass incarceration, Midwest Pages to Prisoners, MWPP, mythology, myths, Norse, Norse myths, Odin, odinism, pagan, paganism, Pages to Prisoners, patriotism, personal growth, poetry, poetry in jail, poverty, prison, prison education, racism, racist, Ragnarok, redemption, Reginald Dwayne Betts, suffering, superheros, teaching in jail, Tom Shippey, trials, Viking myths, Vikings, white supremacy, winning, Yahweh
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On Buddhism, suffering, and Deadpool.
Buddha teaches freedom from suffering. Deadpool teaches us to love who we’ll love and simply endure the suffering that comes with it.
advocacy, attachment, Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist mythology, comics, Deadpool, Deadpool’s daughter, depression, endurance, endure, equality, forebearance, freedom from suffering, helping others, If This Is a Man, mass incarceration, meditation, mental health, Mucalinda, mythology, non-attachment, Old Testament, pain, Primo Levi, privilege, regeneration, religion, running, Satan, Siddhartha, snake, snakes, Stuart Woolf, suffering, suicide, teaching in jail, thole, tree of knowledge of good and evil, volunteering
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On theft and bullying.
Is it fair for the biggest kid on the playground to steal your lunch? What about the cleverest?
Bill Watterson, bullying, Calvin and Hobbes, Cathy O’Neil, civil war, contract theory, Darling I Love You, dumb money, equality, fairness, false belief, financial misconduct, graft, hedge funds, high-frequency traders, human nature, inequality, Leviathan, Ludwig Wittgenstein, might makes right?, Mutts, Patrick McDonnell, Philosophical Investigations, state violence, stealing, Syria, the natural world, theft, Thomas Hobbes, violence, Weapons of Math Destruction, white collar crime
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On fairness (and how we treat the utility monster).
How do you measure someone’s capacity for joy? And what does that say about our opiate epidemic?
animal welfare, Betham, competetive equilibrium, distribution of resources, distribution of wealth, economics, equality, evolution, fairness, heroin, heroin epidemic, human evolution, mass incarceration, Milton Friedman, moral philosophy, natural selection, negative externalities, opiate abuse, opiate epidemic, opportunity, Pareto optimal, Pareto optimality, political philosophy, survival of the fittest, tax policy, utilitarian, utilitarianism, utility monster, utility theory, War on Drugs
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On non-violence (part 2): empowering kids to act for equality.
Even second-graders can make consumer choices that contribute less toward climate destabilization.
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