The economy is us.
09.03.2026 12:12
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The economy is us.
Build and maintain a doc with one paragraph per idea. Watch how it evolves over time.
Please please read this from the archbishop of Chicago
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IMO military capacity isn't the dominant issue. The US is on the edge of losing control of what could expand to a regional, then global conflict. It doesn't matter whether you call it a war or not, the whole world is already coupled via petroleum. Another case of TST:
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My experience is that it doesn't work for me. My work is in a subject area that covers so many traditional disciplines that it has no "natural community of inquiry". So my purpose in writing is not to express myself but to build a community. I'm finding that this medium just doesn't work for that.
I remember the impression, as soon as we would cross the MA-NH line, seeing the explosion of Trump lawn signs.
DHS nominee Markwayne Mullin is one of the most active stock-traders in the Senate — and violated the STOCK Act against insider trading as recently as last August.
He currently holds stock in L3Harris, which has millions in contracts with ICE and FEMA.
The grift continues.
TST in the extreme. You'll see it in our entire leadership.
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In this case, doing better means realizing that the Republican Congress is embedded in a system that extends well beyond the system that is specified by the Constitution. To break our TST we must understand, and intervene in, that larger system.
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For example, why do we simply dismiss the Republican Congress as an unchangeable cult? There is a tremendous opportunity to fragment it, and we ignore that opportunity.
Why? Because we all suffer from TST. We must do better.
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Donald Trump isn’t making the war.
There is a whole network of people and organizations making the war.
There is also a network of people and organizations that could be slowing or arresting the war.
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Focusing on Donald Trump as The Problem in connection with the Iran War is a serious mistake.
It is an example of Truncated-System Thinking (TST).
We can't afford to go down that path; it will lead us to no action, or worse, incorrect action.
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Fatal error. I call it "partial systems thinking" and it seems to be endemic to these folks.
The fact that this is seen anywhere beyond late-night comedy documents the development of our civilization.
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What just happened in Dallas County is one of the most blatant voter suppression operations I've ever seen—and it happened in a *primary*.
In March. Imagine November.
I broke it down here:
open.substack.com/pub/objectio...
I saw it and I understand what you're saying.
I doubt that those people get as far as thinking about learning. They're just thinking about checking one box after another. And admit it, that's what many schools are about, checking one box after another.
I was born Jewish in the 1930s. It was scary even in America, let alone Europe. These cycles run in multiple generations.
Good work. Thanks.
I once had an Evangelical business partner who considered the fact that I was Jewish a "lucky charm".
Letter from DOD regarding changes to officer higher education.
List of excluded colleges.
List of new partners.
This will be lost with what else is going on, but yesterday the Defense Department announced it was removing officers from degree programs at the country’s best universities and transferring them to places like Hillsdale College and Liberty University.
It's creepy that they're now routinely calling it the department of war.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/open...
…to the business/capital reaction as expressed in the Powell memo in 1971, to its consequences, such as the creation of the Heritage Foundation, leading right up to Project 2025.
www.greenpeace.org/usa/democrac...
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My general thesis has been that there is a causal through-line from the giant exhale (if you were there you can’t forget it) and the consequent baby boom at the end of WW2, to the consumerism and free-love period and political instability of the 1950s-1960s,
…
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The focus of that thread was on income-inequality-related stress as a driver of political polarization. Notice in particular the graphic on page 15.
(Source: www.dallasfed.org/~/media/docu... )
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I have my own views about this subject, and have been writing about it for over five years. While I wouldn’t have written this the same way today, here for the record is the source of a 56-tweet thread I posted in November 2020.
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A complete transcript of the conversation is at
melconway.com/Home/pdf/AIc... .
I found this impressive and illuminating in multiple ways. Notice, for example, how ChatGPT followed the changes in my line of questioning in Q2 (page 5) and Q4 (page 21).
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