Our mind, the enemy of magic, they say. Yet, I mind the fairy lights in a vespertine sky. Yet, the sleigh bells ringing in the night matter to me. Aged packages unopened, I choose to pull the ribbon.
Oh bah dat is zooo vermoeiend. Sterkte en hopelijk houdt je brein zich wat rustiger hierna. En ik hoop dat je de dingen die zo’n onrust veroorzaken snel weg kan tikken. 🍀☕️
This paper offers a diagnostic critique of the universalist ambitions embedded in the major normative ethical frameworks of the Western philosophical tradition: virtue ethics, deontology, consequentialism, and contractualism.
I wrote this while waiting for a train in Sacramento early in the morning. It was just one of those special moments:
Glass, concrete, and steel Incessant lines seeking reprieve The white noise flows, distant Pervasive, pensive Birds flock to these towers Just like any other Murmurations weaving through it all Celebrating the dawn with us The train's horn has its own rhythm Its road hums with me as dawn breaks Its people come and go But you are always with me Light of my heart
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Waiting for the End of the World by Richard Ross, 2004
Where will you go when the trouble starts? For countless people around the world, the answer is that bomb shelter down in the basement. In fact, people from around the work have been building shelters to protect themselves from catastrophe -- natural disaster, war, nuclear events -- for centuries.
If you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that 👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet "Agrarian Justice", ⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the proceeds widely rests on a basic insight from the natural law tradition: namely, the insight that there are two kinds of property, things that are created by human effort, and things that are not.
Things that are not created by human effort — like land and other natural resources — are a common inheritance, and everyone has an equal right to enjoy them.
When a few monopolize the land, the normal remedy is redistribution.
Writing in part for a French audience that had just experienced a bloody revolution, and in part for a English audience that f
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If you know something about Basic Income, you may be aware that 👉one of the first proposals for a Basic Income came from Thomas Paine, hero of the American and French revolutions.
In 1797, after a stint in a French prison, Paine wrote the pamphlet "Agrarian Justice", ⭐️which sets out an argument for taxing land and distributing the proceeds among the population at large as compensation for landlessness.
Paine’s proposal to tax land and distribute the proceeds widely rests on a basic insight from the natural law tradition: namely, the insight that there are two kinds of property, things that are created by human effort, and things that are not.
Things that are not created by human effort — like land and other natural resources — are a common inheritance, and everyone has an equal right to enjoy them.
When a few monopolize the land, the normal remedy is redistribution.
Writing in part for a French audience that had just experienced a bloody revolution, and in part for a English audience that feared revolution, Paine proposed a remedy that was much less disruptive.
Let the landowners keep their land, he said.
Let them simply pay a tax, and let that money be used to compensate the landless and give them some financial security.
Paine proposed that money from the fund be distributed to the elderly and the disabled, plus a disbursement to every young man and woman on turning age 21 to help them start out in life resilience.org/stories/2020-04…
I see it clear now: placating the wild animals with some fiscal appeasement so that they don't rise up and burn fields and factories. Sort of like general blackmail. That's sort of what it's become in the inner cities in America. It became pretty clear with regards to: pay us our SNAP or we're off to loot. It's less "for the benefit of man" it's more "selfish altruism."
no sun visor to keep the steering wheel from needing asbestos gloves saw some recyclable inventiveness on display as I discovered the dimensions of a paper shopping bag to be apropos
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