the G20 meeting agenda

Sunday, September 20th, 2009

first, a vocabulary fix: “stand out from the crowd”: this applies only if you belong for the moment to an uneducated the crowd; if the crowd is educated, you want to belong to it; whatever your status is, this expression is a bootstrap proposal. “market knows better”: If A can’t predict B, then of course [...]

the mother of all movies

Thursday, October 9th, 2008

I’m deeply indebted to the author of zeitgeist: addendum, Peter Joseph, this is a documentary that goes to the core of it, and I’ll have to add it to my the most list. Thanks for the patience and the hard work, it filled me with optimism. If you don’t care to learn about where the [...]

rules of humanism

Tuesday, July 15th, 2008

Bored? Skeptic? Tired? Here is a tonic sketch of what a healthy humanist should aim for, IMO: Modify your country’s constitution so that it incorporates the following principles: the end of all the evils principle: The total wealth of any human should be limited, at any moment, to a lifetime of average wages. This will [...]