Author: TarheelDem

David Graeber on Predatory Bureaucratization

David Graeber, OuiShare: The Era of Predatory Bureaucratization Merged private-public bureaucracies have one effect: extracting rents.  Graeber argues that this is closer to feudalism in form, something we’ve used as...

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The Postliberal Era

John Michael Greer sees this election as the hint about the coming of the postliberal (post-Transcendentalist liberalism of Emerson, Thoreau, Brook Farm and that “Golden Day” of the 1830s). John Michael Greer, The...

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The March of Folly Continues

Sometimes the national security establishment feels secure enough for candor. Michael Brenner happened on one in Austin TX recently. Michael Brenner, Sic Semper Tyrannis: How the Borg spends 36 hours in Texas In this mess, we...

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