The Rise of Anti-Capitalism Photo WE are beginning to witness a paradox at the heart of capitalism, one that has propelled it to greatness but is now threatening its future: The inherent dynamism of competitive markets is bringing costs so far down that many goods and services are becoming nearly free, abundant, and no longer subject to market forces. While economists have always welcomed a reduction in marginal cost, they never anticipated the possibility of a technological revolution that might bring those costs to near zero. The first inkling of the paradox came in 1999 when Napster, the music service, developed a network enabling millions of people to share music without paying the producers and artists, wreaking havoc on the music industry. The huge reduction in marginal cost shook those industries and is now beginning to reshape energy, manufacturing and education. Now the phenomenon is about to affect the whole economy.
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Think Like a Commoner Email Facebook Twitter ShareThis About the Author David Bollier, is an author, activist, blogger and independent scholar who has studied the commons as a transformative paradigm for fifteen years. view author profile A Short Introduction to the Life of the Commons by David Bollier The biggest "tragedy of the commons" is the misconception that commons are failures - relics from another era rendered unnecessary by the Market and State. With graceful prose and dozens of fascinating stories, Bollier describes the quiet revolution that is pioneering practical forms of self-governance and production controlled by people themselves. We have a choice: Ignore the commons and suffer the ongoing private plunder of our common wealth. You might also enjoy After Progress Reason and Religion at the End of the Industrial Age Progress is not just a goal in the West—it's a religion. view title info Better The Everyday Art of Sustainable Living view title info Financing our Foodshed Growing Local Food with Slow Money
Noam Chomsky on the Potential for Ordinary People to Make Radical Change Noam Chomsky. (Photo: Andrew Rusk) First published at Jacobin magazine, a print and online magazine offering socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Throughout his illustrious career, one of Noam Chomsky's chief preoccupations has been questioning - and urging us to question - the assumptions and norms that govern our society. Following a talk on power, ideology, and US foreign policy last weekend at the New School in New York City, freelance Italian journalist Tommaso Segantini sat down with the eighty-six-year-old to discuss some of the same themes, including how they relate to processes of social change. For radicals, progress requires puncturing the bubble of inevitability: austerity, for instance, "is a policy decision undertaken by the designers for their own purposes." And he remains soberly optimistic. Tommaso Segantini: In an interview a couple of years ago, you said that the Occupy Wall Street movement had created a rare sentiment of solidarity in the US.
Wir sind die Veränderung Von Isabelle Krötsch, aufbauend auf der Zuschrift von Carmen Glandien Was kann ich tun, um die Erde zu einem besseren Ort zu machen? Vielleicht, so beschleicht mich ein Gefühl, ist es nur mein Versuch, durch Aktivismus der innerlichen Verzweiflung zu entkommen, die sich aus dem Ohnmachtsgefühl ergibt. Aber gleichzeitig spüre ich, dass steter Tropfen den Stein höhlt und jeder Tropfen derjenige sein kann, der ein Fass zum Überlaufen bringen kann, also auch im positiven Sinne. Jeder Gedanke, jedes Gefühl, das sich der friedfertigen Metamorphose widmet und sich nicht verrückt machen lässt von den immer wieder proklamierten Katastrophen und dem manipulativen Angstschüren, ist eine gewonnene Vision für die Zukunft. Es treibt mich die Erkenntnis an, dass eine sehr große Macht und Verantwortung tagtäglich in meinem Bewusstsein und den eigenen Händen liegt und es nicht egal ist, was ich persönlich denke, fühle und handle und dass es da ein großes Ganzes gibt, in das wir alle eingebettet sind.
The human brain is new NATO battlefield With the help of Big Data and new technologies, NATO intends to change not what people think, but how they think. And thus "to make everyone a weapon". The brain will be the battlefield of the 21st century, NATO believes and has made a major strategic shift. Until now, the transatlantic organization defined five operational areas for its military activities, namely land, sea, air, space and cyberspace. But for the thinking heads of the alliance, the present and future conflicts will no longer be only “kinetic”, that is to say confined to movement and physical destruction, but will be located – and will be won – elsewhere. According to Hervé Le Guyader, the “Five Brains Initiative” will be launched in 2024. The goal of cognitive warfare is to make everyone a weapon. It was published at the end of 2020, with an objective as ambitious as it is ethically questionable. Hacking the individual Of course, this concept, which resembles information warfare, is not in itself revolutionary.
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