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Transitioning from Capitalism to Tachytelism in the Anthropocene: A Framework. Abstract Conceptions of post-Capitalist systems of governance, economy and human geography are undermined without the counsel of evolutionary cognitive neuroscience, biology and psychology.

Transitioning from Capitalism to Tachytelism in the Anthropocene: A Framework

Constructs such as capitalism and culture are creations of the individual and collective human brain and its emergent concept of mind. Those constructs are the product of genetic and cultural evolution. Advances in evolutionary studies are refining definitions of Homo Sapiens. Heavy Breeding. In 1920, the brothers Lutz and Heinz Heck, directors of the Berlin and Munich zoos, respectively, began a two-decade breeding experiment.

Heavy Breeding

Working with domestic cattle sought out for their “primitive” characteristics, they attempted to recreate “in appearance and behavior” the living likeness of the animals’ extinct wild ancestor: the aurochs. “Once found everywhere in Germany,” according to Lutz Heck, by the end of the Middle Ages the aurochs had largely succumbed to climate change, overhunting, and competition from domestic breeds.1 The last aurochs herds died out in the Polish-Lithuanian Union, where a documented population persisted under royal protection in Mazovia until the middle of the seventeenth century. Historical descriptions of these animals identified the aurochs as similar to domestic oxen, but entirely black, with a whitish stripe running down the back.2 More distant accounts emphasized their ferocity and imposing size.

Bison monument by Meissen sculptor Max Esser, 1934. The post-Cold War era is over. The Continuum of Psychotic Organisational Typologies. Introduction Peoples’ perceptions and views of the world are influenced by both conscious and unconscious phenomena.

The Continuum of Psychotic Organisational Typologies

The world is a totally socially constructed reality where the people make sense of it from their culture, experience and learning. Within the bounds of culture and experience, each person has some unique interpretation of the environment and understanding of its dynamics. Thus everything can be viewed with multiple perspectives or realities. A person’s psychological state will directly influence perception of people, objects and events. As different psychotic states channel perception and thinking into specific frames, this becomes relevant to how people see opportunity and take action to exploit it. Cognitive distortion and delusion are more likely to occur at the extremities of the psychotic continuum. It is usually very difficult to see abnormality as many psychotic traits are also important drivers of manager and entrepreneur behavior. Figure 1. The age of illusion: An interview with Chris Hayes.

Crisis is the catchword of our time. After the dawning of the new millennium, America stumbled from debacle to debacle. The election of Barack Obama gave hope to many, but the realities of a deeply dysfunctional political economy do not readily yield to a good speech or two. As I write, the slow-motion collapse of public education, aided by the policies of a Democratic administration, continues apace.

The financial system seems as unwieldy, reckless, opaque, and insanely powerful as ever. I could go on, but my crippling depression prevents me from listing anymore cripplingly depressing examples. Chris Hayes has a theory about why everything is going to straight to hell. The World's Most Meddlesome Supreme Courts - By Katie Cella. The court: 21 judges appointed by the president for life terms Activism: Egypt's Supreme Constitutional Court cemented its reputation as one of the world's most active judiciaries on June 14 when it dissolved the country's Islamist-controlled parliament, throwing the country's electoral process for yet another loop.

The World's Most Meddlesome Supreme Courts - By Katie Cella

The decision followed a ruling in May that barred 10 candidates from the presidential race, including the Muslim Brotherhood's top candidate, millionaire backroom fixer Khairat el-Shater. The court ruled that a third of the parliament had been elected unconstitutionally, therefore delegitimizing the entire body. That order follows another controversial ruling on the same day that allowed former President Hosni Mubarak's last prime minister, Ahmed Shafiq, to stay in the presidential race, which critics denounced as paving the way for the old regime to retain power. VICTORIA HAZOU/AFP/Getty Images. Julian Assange Interviews Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali. Re-visiting Assange’s show.

Episode 1: An interview with Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, the first in many years given by the controversial and powerful figure, regarding the Arab Spring, the Israel/Palestine conflict, and Hezbollah’s support for Syrian dictator Bashar Assad (support which Assange vehemently criticized even though the Russian government also supports that regime).

Re-visiting Assange’s show

Episode 2: A debate between Slavoj Zizek, the Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and former anti-communist dissident who turned communist, and right-wing neocon fanatic (and former communist) David Horowitz, on a wide range of global political issues, including ecomonic globalization and Israel’s behavior in the world. Episode 3: An interview with Tunisian President Moncef Marzouki, a former human rights activist who is that country’s first post-revolution leader. Would someone learn more, be more informed about the world, from watching these episodes as opposed to, say, a standard American cable news program?