What is Debt? – An Interview with Economic Anthropologist David Graeber. David Graeber currently holds the position of Reader in Social Anthropology at Goldsmiths University London. Prior to this he was an associate professor of anthropology at Yale University. He is the author of ‘Debt: The First 5,000 Years’ which is available from Amazon. Interview conducted by Philip Pilkington, a journalist and writer based in Dublin, Ireland. Philip Pilkington: Let’s begin. Most economists claim that money was invented to replace the barter system. But you’ve found something quite different, am I correct? David Graeber: Yes there’s a standard story we’re all taught, a ‘once upon a time’ — it’s a fairy tale. It really deserves no other introduction: according to this theory all transactions were by barter.
The story goes back at least to Adam Smith and in its own way it’s the founding myth of economics. By the time the curtain goes up on the historical record in ancient Mesopotamia, around 3200 BC, it’s already happened. DG: Well it tends to pivot radically back and forth. Management. How to Moderate a Brainstorming Session and Get Results. Ah yes, ye old brainstorming session. We’ve all been there, and have had varying degrees of success with the process. But what makes for a great brainstorming session, and more importantly, what drives a session to produce some truly great results? I wish I could say that there’s a single, bullet proof formula for outstanding brainstorming sessions, however, unfortunately, there is none. When effectively organized, a brainstorming session can bring some previously unheard/unthought-of ideas to life, sparking further creativity. Conversely, when poorly organized and not well directed, a brainstorming session can rapidly deteriorate into a colossal waste of everyone’s time.
So how do you end up with the former, and avoid the latter? Prep Cook As the moderator, one of your most important functions of the entire process is to be well versed in the topic(s) to be discussed and have the bigger picture in mind at all times. The Right Players House Rules Space, check. Moderate It The Shotgun. Plucked from Glassboard. The 48 Laws of Power. Background[edit] Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.[5] In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers.[4][8] Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment.[4] Although Greene was unhappy in his current job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky.[10] However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War.[10] Greene would follow Caesar's example and write the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power.[10] He would note this as the turning point of his life.[10]
Manipulation. How To Tell If Someone Is Lying - Eye Patterns of a liar. When Debt Is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil. Submitted by Charles Hugh Smith from Of Two Minds When Debt Is More Important Than People, The System Is Evil The Empire of Debt has only one end-point: a death spiral. It is evil and must be dismantled. Ethics has no place in the Empire of Debt. The reality being masked is that debt is now more important than people. 1. 2. This begs further investigation. The ethics of debt, at least in the officially sanctioned media, boils down to: nobody made them borrow all those euros, and so their suffering is just desserts.
What's lost in this subtext is the responsibility of the lender. Consider an individual who is a visibly poor credit risk. Now a lender comes along who can create credit out of thin air (via fractional reserve banking) and offers this poor credit risk $100,000 in collateral-free debt at low rates of interest. This is the basis of bankruptcy laws--or used to be the basis. The debt is discharged and the borrower must live within his means without relying on credit.
The Universe. Fractals. Fractal Geometry. 3D fractals. Fractals Mandlebrots & Dreams of Electric Sheep. Universe & Multiverse. Particle Physics. Solar System. Unlimited exporloration of Solar System. The Nature of Reality. Thought on Thinking. The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational.
Critical Thinking. Thinking. Flatpack futures. What Is The Singularity And Will You Live To See It? 1. I'm generally skeptical of the singularity and of post-scarcity economics in general. 2. I think it's interesting to ponder why the singularity might not occur. 3. I have a sneaking suspicion that the Fermi Paradox is somehow connected with a singularity, but I really have no compelling reason why I think that. 4. Pa Overclock is 93 and living in an assisted living facility. 5. 6.
Einstein. Data Visualization teams/pearlers. Data Visualization. Data visualization 2. 3-Visualizations & mapping. Mind Mapping. Calculus and Analysis. Neuroscience. Neurology. Brain/Neuroscience. Psychology & Neuroscience. A Drug That Could Give You Perfect Visual Memory. Psychology. Serial killers. Neuroscience. Neuroscience. Behavioral Economics. Neuroscience and education. Textbook of my former Neuroscience class- Exploring the Brain th.
Neuroscience. Neuroscience. How our brains stop us achieving our goals and how to fight back. 1.8K Flares Filament.io 1.8K Flares × As admittedly wonderful and fascinating as the human brain is, it definitely can feel like our brain is out to get us sometimes. Summed up perfectly in the many observations of the “Scumbag Brain” meme, our brain does seem to engage in “sabotage” in terms of how it naturally reacts to situations. The scary thing is that in some circumstances, these feelings are backed up by actual research! We’ve already discussed how poorly our brain operates while multitasking (despite tricking us to feel fulfilled while we do it), and today I’d like to expand upon 5 new dangers present in our ‘scumbag brains.’
In this post you’ll learn how to combat your brain’s own brilliance, overcoming it’s instinctual reactions which often have devastating effects on those all-important long term goals that you set for yourself. Let’s get started! Would you believe that fantasizing is the #1 way your brain can unintentionally ruin your goals? It seems unlikely, right? Why? Ms. Artificial Intelligence. Researchers & Theories... Politics. Politics/Philosophy. Political Ideas. War on Drugs. Mass psychosis in the US. Has America become a nation of psychotics? You would certainly think so, based on the explosion in the use of antipsychotic medications. In 2008, with over $14 billion in sales, antipsychotics became the single top-selling therapeutic class of prescription drugs in the United States, surpassing drugs used to treat high cholesterol and acid reflux. Once upon a time, antipsychotics were reserved for a relatively small number of patients with hard-core psychiatric diagnoses - primarily schizophrenia and bipolar disorder - to treat such symptoms as delusions, hallucinations, or formal thought disorder.
Today, it seems, everyone is taking antipsychotics. Parents are told that their unruly kids are in fact bipolar, and in need of anti-psychotics, while old people with dementia are dosed, in large numbers, with drugs once reserved largely for schizophrenics. Not just for psychotics anymore Cost benefit analysis Making patients worse. How to follow the politics of oil?
New Politics... Bush-clan & Education , Oil and War. Middle East. Israel and the Middle East. US Middle East policy. 'Pantheist' Lincoln would be unelectable today - Americas, World. A three-page letter highlighting the 16th president's unconventional relationship with the Almighty has just been put on sale. It offers a possible insight into why he was never baptised, did not attend a church and, in defiance of political protocol of the era, would refuse to publicly discuss his spiritual beliefs. Such was his reluctance to embrace piety that, if he were standing for office today, there is a good chance he would be unelectable. The letter was written by William Herndon, a legal partner and close friend of "Honest Abe" in 1866, a year after Lincoln had been assassinated by John Wilkes Booth. And while the letter is at pains to stress that Lincoln did believe in "a God" at the time of his death, it reveals that he took a long time getting to that point.
"At one time in his life, to say the least, he was an elevated Pantheist, doubting the immortality of the soul as the Christian world understands that term. Conservative Thinking. Tea Party. Society. USA - Broken Criminal Justice System. Prisons for Profit. Private Prisons. Kids for Cash scandal. Religion. Humanism. Christopher Hitchens. The word God is the product of human weakness. In January of 1954, just a year before his death, Albert Einstein wrote the following letter to philosopher Erik Gutkind after reading his book, "Choose Life: The Biblical Call to Revolt," and made known his views on religion. Apparently Einstein had only read the book due to repeated recommendation by their mutual friend Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer. The letter was bought at auction in May 2008, for £170,000; unsurprisingly, one of the unsuccessful bidders was Richard Dawkins. Translated transcript follows. (Source: David Victor; Image: Albert Einstein, via.)
Translated Transcript Princeton, 3. 1. 1954Dear Mr Gutkind,Inspired by Brouwer's repeated suggestion, I read a great deal in your book, and thank you very much for lending it to me. The Case Against Christ. Mithras and Christianity. This religion, cloaked in mystery and secrecy, has captivated the imaginations of scholars for generations. Many facts discovered sheds vital light on the cultural dynamics that led to the rise of Christianity. The National Geographic Society’s book “Great Religions of the World,” page 309 writes; “By Jesus’ time, East and West had mingled here for three centuries. Down columns of boulevards walked Roman soldiers loyal to the Persian god Mithras.” Mithras was a Persian deity. He was also the most widely venerated god in the at the time of Jesus. The Catholic Encyclopedia as well as the early Church Fathers found this religion of Mithras very disturbing, as there are so many similarities between the two religions, as follows: 1) Hundreds of years before Jesus, according to the Mithraic religion, three Wise Men of came to visit the baby savior-god Mithra, bring him gifts of gold, myrrh and frankincense. 4) After the death of Mithra, his body was laid to rest in a rock tomb. a.
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