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We Humans are Inventive Little Buggers

When you were a kid did you build things? Like throw a sheet over a table and call it your … More

human inventions, human nature, hunter-gatherers, kids, parenting, tribes

Geek Tribes

How is your week going? Good, I hope. This week I learned that Geeks, the Wizards of the Modern Age, … More

Drupal, Geeks, Linux, Mac, tribes

We are all tribal

You may have noticed references in passing news stories that tribes are still very important in the identities of people … More

Afghanistan, Israel, Libya, tribes, USA tribes

How GREED destroys societies-and always will

History is written through the political prism of the writer. Thus when Rousseau wanted to prove that man in a … More

debt, greed, Hobbes, human nature, Rousseau, slaves, tribes

Conspiracy Theories and the Collective Unconscious

Following 9/11 and the crash of 2008, the Conspiracy Theory Industry, naturally enough, went into high gear. I say “naturally … More

9/11, conspiracy, crash of 2008, human nature, tribes

Our Tribe-we get by with a little help from our friends

Nobody knows when humans became fully human, which I define as that point when  some mysterious light went on in … More

caring for each other, social skills, tribes

Tribal Raids of the One Percent

Human beings want, above all, to stay alive. Surely this is understandable and accepted as true by any human being … More

99 percent, elite, imperialism, One Percent, raiding, tribes

Who Belongs to Your Tribe?

After spending 90,000 years in tribes, we humans still carry tribal characteristics and probably always will. One essential characteristic is … More

Breivik, immigrants, multiculturalism, right wing, tribes, xenophobia

The Natural State of Man

Many older philosophies start out with the natural state of mankind. The trouble was, they didn’t know diddly about the … More

Adam Smith, gift culture, Hobbes, Jared Diamond, natural man, philosophy, sharing, state, tribes

Property as Theft: Where Did Private Property Come from?

  Proudhoun’s assertion that “property is theft” falls apart from the get-go: Unless property existed in the first place, what … More

Brehon laws, common ownership, history, private property, privatization, tribes

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