Kevin A. Carson's Blog, page 7
October 29, 2023
Donald Trump...
...trying to remember everyone he discussed American nuclear submarines with at Mar-a-Lago:
"Well, let's see... I seem to recall a conversation with Mrs. Winston in 1F...."
https://youtu.be/szAjGEoPtY4?si=cGx2Z...
"Well, let's see... I seem to recall a conversation with Mrs. Winston in 1F...."
https://youtu.be/szAjGEoPtY4?si=cGx2Z...
October 26, 2023
October 18, 2023
The Climate Denial Machine’s Fake Statistics Just Keep On Coming
My latest at C4SS (on Bjorn Lomborg)
https://c4ss.org/content/59083
https://c4ss.org/content/59083
September 26, 2023
We Are Not the Same
Dude.
I question mainstream media narratives based on critical analyses like that of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, who understand how institutional factors and automatic filtering mechanisms work.
You question mainstream media narratives because a bunch of right-wing social media grifters and batshit podcasters have convinced you that a cabal of "globalists" who all know the secret handshake get together and decide what the news is going to be.
We are not the same.
I question mainstream media narratives based on critical analyses like that of Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, who understand how institutional factors and automatic filtering mechanisms work.
You question mainstream media narratives because a bunch of right-wing social media grifters and batshit podcasters have convinced you that a cabal of "globalists" who all know the secret handshake get together and decide what the news is going to be.
We are not the same.
July 17, 2023
"I, Pencil" Revisited
This godawful pamphlet has been a right-libertarian sacred text for generations, so I really did my best to rustle some jimmies in this critique :https://c4ss.org/content/58750
May 17, 2023
April 13, 2023
Time to Fight Dirty
My latest at C4SS https://c4ss.org/content/58377
April 11, 2023
GDP: The Last Refuge of Scoundrels?
At Center for a Stateless Society: my response to a piece on climate change that's pretty awful even for Ron Bailey. https://c4ss.org/content/58379
February 19, 2023
Of Lobsters, Caterpillars, and Catabolic Collapse
"I just realised: Companies(And Capitalism) are lobsters. Lobsters are biologically immortal, the 'old age' that kills them is not having enough energy to finish shedding their exoskeleton. We're reaching the point where the parasite load is too high and there's no energy to shed."
--@Trenchcoat_Mr on Twitter
Another way of saying this is that centralized, hierarchical economic models require support infrastructures and resource inputs that become larger and larger relative to output, until they collapse from input shortages and the weight of their own overhead.
The only way the system is surviving now is by catabolizing its own body -- vulture capitalists asset-stripping productive enterprises for cash. It's systematically destroying productivity for short-term profit.
Fortunately, this system is more like a caterpillar than a lobster. The body of the caterpillar may be turning to mush in its cocoon, but the nuclei of a successor system -- a decentralized, ephemeral, and low-overhead one -- are growing inside it.
--@Trenchcoat_Mr on Twitter
Another way of saying this is that centralized, hierarchical economic models require support infrastructures and resource inputs that become larger and larger relative to output, until they collapse from input shortages and the weight of their own overhead.
The only way the system is surviving now is by catabolizing its own body -- vulture capitalists asset-stripping productive enterprises for cash. It's systematically destroying productivity for short-term profit.
Fortunately, this system is more like a caterpillar than a lobster. The body of the caterpillar may be turning to mush in its cocoon, but the nuclei of a successor system -- a decentralized, ephemeral, and low-overhead one -- are growing inside it.
May 10, 2022
Final Warning
OK, I've been clicking "I'm not interested in this book" for six years now to no avail, and I'm tired of fooling around. From now on, every time I click "I'm not interested in this book" someone at Goodreads HQ will die.
