I think the US is in a terrible state of denial. Worse than that, we seem to be caught in a kind of Gotterdammerung response: we'd rather have the world go down in flames than change our lifestyle or admit we're wrong.
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looki… - Kim Stanley Robinson
History was like some vast thing that was always over the tight horizon, invisible except in its effects. It was what happened when you weren't looki…
- Kim Stanley Robinson
Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit. - Kim Stanley Robinson
Easier to destroy the world than to change capitalism even one little bit.
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one… - Kim Stanley Robinson
Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one…
We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the tech… - Kim Stanley Robinson
We ought to be keeping in mind that the technology is not just hardware and machinery, it is also software. So you can think of languages of the tech…
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see it… - Kim Stanley Robinson
And because we are alive, the universe must be said to be alive. We are its consciousness as well as our own. We rise out of the cosmos and we see it…
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. An… - Kim Stanley Robinson
Anyway that's a large part of what economics is - people arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. An…
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists wh… - Kim Stanley Robinson
The minimum that most minimalists want leaves in place just the institutions who protect their interests. That's libertarians for you - anarchists wh…
What we need is equality without conformity. - Kim Stanley Robinson
What we need is equality without conformity.
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check. - Kim Stanley Robinson
When it comes to the environment, the invisible hand never picks up the check.
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