Just when I was thinking I kinda nailed it down with the concepts of humanist economy and limited wealth, transparent administration etc., I found a much more refined model of society called inclusive democracy. If you’re questioning the current state of affairs around you, and wish to do your best to fix the problems, this […]

If you drive a car daily, you must know that the war in Iraq has been performed especially for you (surely there’s corporate profit involved, but that profit wouldn’t be possible without your ignorant help). This war is starting to cover some of those expenses. It is the long worked-for solution to correct back the […]

I’ve waited for a long time for the itemized list of the suburbanite patriot, and now I found it.
I read a nice piece on Jay Leno’s patriotism, which reproduces that list.
I’ll touch each one of those items below (read that list first, I won’t copy it here):

A. If you have electricity and running water, you […]

I learned that 80% of the North-American voting system is based on closed software and private technology secrets, that is, the technology is not open to inspection by the public, the voters; not even by the public administration (for detailed information on these issues, check blackboxvoting.org).
This is the ultimate proof of the misery of the […]

The most complete paragraph I’ve ever read is (technically, the quote below is just a part of a paragraph):
But the general movement of isolation, which is the reality of urbanism, must also include a controlled reintegration of workers depending on the needs of production and consumption that can be planned. Integration into the system requires […]

“Oil is too important to leave to market forces”, this is the title of an article published yesterday in Timesonline. Its writer suggests that the governments should get involved to fix the problem of high oil prices.
It brings me to the “free market” moral: it should be free as long as the greedy can […]

Here are some excerpts (the section about the rights and duties of the citizens) from the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of Romania (RSR), issued in 1965:

Art.17
The RSR citizens, without discrimination based on nationality, race, sex or religion, are equal in rights in all the domains of economical, political, juridical, social and cultural life.
The state […]

I’m Romanian, so that makes me a byzantine European, that is, inclined to chit chat at the street corner. Here’s my 2 cents:
I lived and worked in Pittsburgh, PA, United States, between 1999 and 2002. In less than six months I had a strong feeling I don’t belong to this culture. This feeling is standardly […]

Herodotus was writing, in the Book I of his Histories, about the Persians:
There are many reasons for their horror of debt, but the chief is their conviction that a man who owes money is bound also to tell lies.
(translation by Aubrey de Sélincourt).
They were right: conditioning the individuals through debt is much more […]

Why essays? Why libraries?
I was looking for “fait que ton rêve soit plus long que la nuit”, a Vangelis artwork (104 hits on Google), and guess what, I found it on Wallmart’s website. Yes, Wallmart can preserve history too. Yes, drones, this is customer driven history. A search for site:.fr “fait que ton rêve soit […]