Of Two Minds

Without being aware of it, we’ve privatized “free” speech in the form of digital monopolies.

Self-serving special interests are delighted to fill the void when local journalism disappears.

Markets are manipulated, yes, but they’re still structures of tightly bound, self-organizing complexity which lend themselves to sudden non-linear collapses.

Violent crashes followed by equally violent rip-your-face-off rallies as we experienced in August are not signs of a healthy, stable stock market.

Among the big winners of the Everything Bubble is–yes, I know you’re shocked–Wall Street.

The ‘novel, apocalyptic situation which has now arisen’ goes largely unrecognized.