Decoding the World’s Story
If the world were being diagnosed in a psychiatrist’s office today, the diagnosis might very likely be schizophrenia. If you spend time...
For the People
Women. An asset we are wasting.
Four things led me recently to reflect on women. Not just any women, but women in research. 1) A significant number of posts on LinkedIn...
Unless you change my narrative, you can’t change my thinking
I recently read a very thought-provoking article by Susan Fader (FaderFocus) on the need to incorporate Narrative Economics into market...
Or, By and For
The United States likes to think of itself as exceptional. And it should. This is a country founded on what were then uniquely different...
What it Really Means to Belong
Over the last few days, we have been examining the social contract between government and society through the lens of Maslow’s Hierarchy....
The Road to Dictatorship
Dictators rise to power – and stay there – by taking one of two roads. The first is by military means. The second is by getting elected...
Kleptocracy Kills Democracy
In his 1796 farewell address to the nation at the end of his second term as President, George Washington spoke out against what he saw as...
Government, Society and Existential Security
Yesterday – May 8, 2020 – we celebrated the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) Day. It was a very timely reminder of how one...
Dumbing Down America
Why is modern-day America so willing to disregard facts and science in the service of conspiracies and cult thinking? Why does our...
Social Security in its Broadest Sense
In the past couple of days we have examined how both health and economic security were severely compromised in this country even before...
Repairing the Economic Social Contract
Yesterday I argued that the Economic Social Contract in the US is broken, if it ever really existed in the last forty years. But that...
Covid-19 and the Social Contract
In a democracy, the intrinsic contract between government and the electorate is that government will use its resources, sourced from...
Why the Economic Contract is Broken
Is there such a thing as an Economic Social Contract? Is it government’s obligation to provide for the economic security of its citizens?...
The Failure of American Health Security
There is no doubt that there were catastrophic errors of judgment by the US government in terms of readying the country’s health system...
How Money Eases The Path to Dictatorship
Simon Chadwick Author of “For The People: A Citizen’s Manifesto to Shaping Our Nation’s Future” There are two paths to dictatorship – the...
Welcome!
If you have come this far, it suggests to me that you may be as concerned as I am about the direction in which our country is moving. We...